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Scholastic's Storia Adds Albert Whitman Books
Scholastic has announced an agreement with Albert Whitman & Company to offer 45 of its books on Storia, the e-reading app for kids.
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Aptara Survey Finds 40% of Trade Houses with E-book Sales Over 10% of Revenue
E-book sales accounted for more than 10% of revenue at 36% of publishers that responded to Aptara’s fourth annual survey of publishers’ e-book operations. According to the survey, conducted in April and cosponsored by PW, 40% of trade houses had e-book sales that accounted for more than 10% of sales.
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Apple, Publishers Subpoena Amazon in Price-Fixing Class Action
If you thought the DoJ settlement process was contentious, the litigation now heating up in the class action lawsuit will likely take things to a new level.
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The Department of Justice E-Book Price-Fixing Case: All Our Coverage
Stay up to date with the Department of Justice e-book price-fixing suit with PW's extensive coverage. Here is an archive of our stories, following the case from the initial investigation to the settlement.
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DoJ, Publishers Urge Court to Deny Kohn’s Attempt to Intervene in Settlement
In its motion opposing attorney and RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn’s motion to intervene in the deal between the government and three publishers, the U.S. Department of Justice said it knows Kohn is against the recently approved price-fixing settlement.
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Court Grants Preliminary Approval to States E-book Deal; Public Hearing Set for February 8
Judge Denise Cote last week granted preliminary approval to a more than $70 million e-book settlement involving 54 U.S. states and territories with a final hearing set for February 8.
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With DoJ Settlement Approved, Pre-Trial Skirmishes Begin for Non-Settling Parties
Following the approval of the DoJ’s price-fixing settlement earlier this month, last week saw filings from Penguin and Apple that make clear a key strategy for the non-settling parties: putting Amazon on trial.
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Roald Dahl Comes to E
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and several other Roald Dahl classics will be published as e-books by Puffin for the first time in the U.S. on September 13, Roald Dahl’s birthday.
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John Wiley Inks Interactive Textbook Deal with Kno
Continuing to add content from a growing list of textbook publishers, Kno, an educational software developer that creates digital textbooks for the iPad, reached an agreement to produce interactive versions of higher education textbooks from John Wiley & Sons’ Global Education division.
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NBC Publishing Relaunches ‘The Message’ as E-Book, School Resource
Writer Felicia Pride has big plans for an updated and revised e-book version of her popular 2007 title The Message: Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs, re-released in August by NBC Publishing.
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HarperCollins Reaches New E-book Agreements
HarperCollins is the first of the three "settling publishers" to reach deals with e-tailers over e-books prices saying it has reached agreements that “are consistent with the final judgment.”
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New Report on Digital Publishing Startups From BlueLoop Concepts
"The E-Book Platform Landscape" is a newly released, concise report on the growth of digital publishing, the ever-increasing number of digital startups and the market trends surrounding them.
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Resistance Begins as Bob Kohn Files Motion to Stay Approval of DoJ Settlement
Attorney and RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn today filed two motions: one to intervene in the DoJ’s settlement with three publishers for the purposes of an appeal, and one seeking an immediate stay of the Settlement pending an appeal to the Second Circuit.
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Federal Judge Approves Settlement in DoJ E-Book Case
Approval of the settlement had been widely expected. Still, the timing took the industry by surprise; the final decree comes less than five months after the Department of Justice first announced its action, and one week after the three publishers struck a more than $70 million deal to settle state price-fixing claims.
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Federal Judge Denise Cote Approves DoJ E-Book Settlement
In a stunning development, federal judge Denise Cote today approved the DoJ’s settlement with publishers over alleged e-book price-fixing—just a day after U.S. attorneys asked the court to forego a hearing and approve the deal. The decision is dated September 5.
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U.S. Attorneys Are Not Impressed By Bob Kohn’s Comic Brief
In a supplemental reply addressing amicus briefs filed by the Authors Guild and attorney Bob Kohn, who made headlines this week by submitting a five-page comic brief, U.S attorneys have urged Judge Denise Cote to “enter the proposed Final Judgment" in the e-book price-fixing case "without further hearing.”
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Playboy Strikes Amazon Exclusive for Interview Collection
Playboy is releasing a collection of 50 interviews, exclusively through Amazon, called "50 Years of the Playboy Interview." The collection will be released as single interviews, priced at 99 cents each, over a 50-day period.
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A Work of Art: Bob Kohn Submits DoJ Amicus Brief as Comic Strip
For those in publishing who have followed the DoJ price-fixing case, it has from the start seemed like a cartoonish affair. Now, thanks to former music executive and RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn, it is a cartoon. Handcuffed by the court’s decision to re-file his argument against the DoJ’s settlement with three publishers in just five pages, Kohn filed the brief in the form of a comic strip.
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Taking Storytelling Digital
Eli Horowitz does not think of himself as someone who “fetishizes the book.” But he’s also seen what books become, in digital form, and has not always been impressed. A former managing editor and publisher at McSweeney’s, Horowitz describes much of what he has seen in the digital revolution in book publishing as merely “taking nice books and making them slightly uglier.” Hoping to do something more interesting, and attractive, than merely digitizing a print book for e-reading, Horowitz, with two partners, launched Ying Horowitz & Quinn, a kind of transmedia shop that, at its core, he said, is interested in “finding new ways to tell stories.” Its first major project, a story that unfolds in segments through an app, will launch in October.
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Checks, or Credit: The Broad Strokes of the States’ E-book Settlement
More details have emerged concerning the deal to settle e-book price-fixing claims between 54 states and U.S. territories and HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster.
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