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Top Cow, iVerse Media Offer Free Digital Comics Previews

| 12/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Digital content distributor Iverse Media is teaming with comics publisher Top Cow to offer fans free access to several Top Cow series recently relaunched with new storylines. Top Cow's "Try 'em Before you Buy ‘em Program," is giving out redemption codes that will let fans preview the comics free of charge.
Amazon Launches Brazil Kindle Store

| 12/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Amazon has launched the Brazil Kindle store with over 1.4 million books, including 13,000 Portuguese-language books, 49 of 60 Veja bestsellers. The Kindle device will go on sale in the coming weeks for R$299.
Hachette Book Group Implements New E-book Agreements

| 12/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

Hachette Book Group's new agreements are now being adopted by its e-book agents. Terms are confidential, but in keeping with the settlement with the Department of Justice, agents are free to discount individual titles.
Amazon Creates Subscription Service Targeted at Kids

| 12/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

Amazon has unveiled Kindle Free Time Unlimited, a subscription service targeted at kids between three and eight.
News Corp.'s Joel Klein Outlines Plans for Amplify Education Unit

By Calvin Reid | 12/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

Joel Klein, former New York City schools chancellor, now executive v-p at News Corp. and director of Amplify, its education unit, offered a presentation on Amplify's business model and plans to release hardware and software solutions optimized for a new generation of digitally savvy students and teachers.
Christopher Etesse Appointed CEO of Flat World Knowledge

| 12/03/2012 @ 12:00AM

Flat World Knowledge has named Christopher Etesse, former CTO of Blackboard Student Services, chief executive officer succeeding Flatworld Knowledge founder Jeff Shelstad.
'Symbolia,' iPad Journal of Multimedia Graphic Journalism, Debuts Today

By Calvin Reid | 12/03/2012 @ 12:00AM

Symbolia: The Tablet Magazine of Illustrated Journalism, a digital journal designed for the iPad that specializes in comics and illustrated nonfiction reports, debuts today in the App Store.
Viz To Begin Simultaneous Manga Publication with Japan in January

By Calvin Reid | 11/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

Beginning January 21, 2013, Viz Media plans to completely synchronize the publication of Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, its weekly English-language digital manga anthology, with the Japanese-language manga series it publishes.
Random House Launches New Digital-Only Imprints

| 11/29/2012 @ 12:00AM

Random House announced plans to launch three new digital-only imprints: Alibi, a mystery-thriller line, Flirt, a YA/New Adult list and Hydra, a new science fiction line; in addition to expanding the reach of the Loveswept digital romance imprint.
ALA Releases Media Kit to Help Libraries Make E-book Case to the Public

By Andrew Albanese | 11/28/2012 @ 12:00AM

The ALA this week released a “media kit” to help librarians take their case for e-books to the people, continuing efforts it kicked off in September to give the simmering e-book issue more public attention.
Open Road Gives New Life to Dan Gutman Series

By Sally Lodge | 11/27/2012 @ 03:00PM

Funny Boy, Dan Gutman's superpower-lacking superhero who uses his sense of humor to defeat bad guys, will soon be back on his beat.
Amazon Brings Vonnegut to Kindle Serial

| 11/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Amazon Publishing is releasing a collection of never-before-published pieces by Kurt Vonnegut called Sucker's Portfolio.
39 Clues for Christmas

By Karen Raugust | 11/20/2012 @ 11:00AM

Scholastic is launching an original e-book, The 39 Clues: Cahill Files: Silent Night, on Christmas Day, following greater-than-expected sales of The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire, a series of original e-books released last Christmas season.
Comics, Prose, And Digital at Arch Enemy

By Shannon O’Leary | 11/17/2012 @ 12:00AM

As publishing conglomerates and technology firms become the dominant forces in an increasingly digital marketplace for the book and comics industries, opportunities are opening for smaller, more nimble independent media companies like Arch Enemy Entertainment.
Hachette Plans EPub3 Publishing Program Launch

| 11/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Hachette Book Group plans to launch an EPub3 program and will begin by releasing 16 titles in the format, an interactivity and multimedia-focused standard for enhanced e-books, between November 2012 and March 2013.
CourseSmart Expands to the Middle East, Africa

| 11/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

CourseSmart, the digital textbook and course materials outlet, is expanding access to its educational content and e-commerce platform to selected countries in the Middle East and Africa.
John Wiley Teams with TED to Offer Educational Content

| 11/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

John Wiley has reached an agreement with TED, the nonprofit specializing in spreading discussions on technology, entertainment, design and other subjects, to produce instructional material for TED Studies, 21 collections of curated discussions aimed at the school market and organized under academic subject categories.
Guideposts Launches E-Shorts Series

| 11/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

Guideposts Books has announced the debut of Spirit Lifters, its new series of short e-books.
iBooks Author Goes Beyond Textbooks

By Calvin Reid | 11/09/2012 @ 07:00PM

When iBooks Author, Apple’s multimedia e-book authoring tool, was unveiled in January, it was hailed for how easy it is to use and its ability to create rich, multimedia, and interactive educational content.
A Small World: The Global E-Book Market Expands

By Calvin Reid | 11/09/2012 @ 07:00PM

The rise of easy-to-use e-book publishing platforms that distribute globally, the inherent speed of digital publishing, and the low cost and ever-rising demand for e-books in both the developing world, as well as from developed but remote economies like Australia, offer the potential of vibrant new markets as well as new revenue streams to publishers of all kinds.

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