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Three Publishers Agree to $69 Million State Deal
The Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a $69 million agreement that will resolve lawsuits brought by 54 attorney generals from 49 states, the District of Columbia and territories, that charged the publishers with fixing e-book prices.
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'Fatal Vision' Comes to E
Signet has released the e-book edition of Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss.
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Court Will Allow More Five Page Amicus Briefs in E-book Case
In a mixed ruling, Judge Denise Cote will allow the Authors Guild, along with Royalty Share founder and music industry veteran Bob Kohn, to submit amicus briefs in connection with the DoJ’s price-fixing settlement.
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Springer Expands Open Access Program to E-books
Springer announced this week that it has expanded its open access (OA) publishing program to include a full open access option for e- books.
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Barnes & Noble Debuts My Little Pony Collection for Nook
Hasbro and Barnes & Noble have launched 11 My Little Pony e-book editions exclusively for the Nook Tablet and Nook Color. The titles, marking the first time any Hasbro properties have been available for the Nook platform.
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Kindle-Exclusive E-books Cross 100 Million Downloads
Amazon has announced that its catalog of 180,000 exclusive Kindle books have been downloaded or borrowed more than 100 million times.
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PUP Enticing Readers With Free E-Chapter
For its forthcoming book about the presidential election (and the data that documents voter behavior during it), Princeton University Press is offering a free sample of John Side and Lynn Vavreck's book, The Gamble.
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Campus eBookstore Selects Ingram's VitalSource
Campus eBookstore, Inc. will use Ingram's VitalSource Bookshelf platform to expand and enhance its e-textbook offering to institutional and retail book customers.
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Livrada Tries Its Luck with E-book Gift Cards
Livrada is hoping to create a niche for itself in a market that until now has been largely ignored: e-book gift cards. Its goal—to make e-book giving a more personal and streamlined experience—makes sense considering that gift card spending exceeded $100 billion in 2011 and, according to a Bowker PubTrack consumer survey, 14% of books are given as gifts annually.
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WaPo Teaming With Diversion Books for E-Book Series
The Washington Post has partnered with Diversion Books, the e-book publisher founded by agent Scott Waxman, to do a series of e-originals.
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Tracking Amazon: New Kindle Rumors Swirl Around Press Conference
Amazon has announced it will hold a press conference on September 6 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Speculation is that the company will announce a new Kindle product.
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DoJ Says Court Should Approve E-book Deal Without Delay
In a motion made Wednesday, the Department of Justice said arguments made by Apple, Macmillan and Penguin raise no real new issues and therefore asks that the court approve the e-book agreement without further hearings.
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1DollarScan Takes Service to Cloud, Authors Guild Worried
1DollarScan, a service that lets publishers and authors mail work to be digitized and sent back as a PDF, is is fully integrating with Evernote, allowing its scanning service to be utilized in the cloud, but the Authors Guild is worried that the service violates an author's copyright.
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Open Road to Pub British Erotica Trilogy in North America
Open Road Media is publishing the British erotic series Eighty Days in North America. The trilogy was published by Orion in the UK in early August and has, per Open Road, become a bestseller and sparked big ticket bids for translation rights.
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No Delay in Google Case: Chin Affirms Current Schedule; Accepts Library Group Amicus Brief
In an August 15 order, Judge Denny Chin accepted a joint amicus brief from the Library Copyright Alliance, a coalition of three major library groups, as well as a brief both in support of Google in the Authors Guild vs. Google case.
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Apple, Publishers File Opposition to Proposed DoJ Settlement
The first words of its filing say it all: "Apple has not settled with the Government." Within the five-page limit imposed by Denise Cote, Apple yesterday voiced opposition to the government's proposed settlement with three publishers (Hachette, S&S and HarperCollins) in its e-book price-fixing case.
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Brain Hive Offers On-Demand K-12 E-book Library Lending
Brain Hive is an on-demand pay-as-you-go e-book lending service offering schools online access to a library of K-12 digital titles. Membership in the service is free, titles are available immediately and libraries and schools are charged $1 for each e-book circulated.
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BenchPrep Inks New Content Deals; Gets $6M in New Funding
BenchPrep, an educational software developer specializing in interactive courses for school, college and professional certification, inked new deals with publishers that will add more than 100 courses to its digital platform.
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New Academia.edu Dashboard Shows Real-Time Impact of Research
Academia.edu, a social platform for sharing scientific research, is launching an Analytics Dashboard on the site that gives scientists immediate feedback on the level of traffic accessing their content online.
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