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Hachette Book Group to Resume Sale of New eBooks to Libraries

by on May 1, 2013 in eNews, Libraries, New Business Models

Hachette Book Group announced Wednesday that it will make its entire catalog of ebooks available to libraries, beginning May 8, including new and recent releases. HBG had stopped the sale of new ebooks to libraries as of April 2010, so the policy change will open up both brand-new releases as…

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Pearson and Kaplan Both Launch Incubators for Hot Ed-Tech Startups

by on February 20, 2013 in Finance, New Business Models

Two companies in publishing and education announced incubator programs this week to help vet and mentor ed-tech startups. Pearson's program is called Catalyst and is designed to "identify the most promising education startup companies that share Pearson's commitment to improving people's lives through learning, and help enable them to break…

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eNews: Random Joins MyiLibrary, Book Scout (Officially), and Total Boox

by on January 22, 2013 in eNews, New Business Models, Web marketing/promotion

Ingram will add over 36,000 titles to their MyiLibrary ebook platform in February from Random House, Inc. as well as the publisher's distribution clients. As we were first to report last Friday, Random House formally announced their new Facebook app Book Scout, which launched last week. Random's svp digital marketplace development…

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More eNews: Inkling's Searchable Books, and More

by on January 16, 2013 in eNews, New Business Models

In concert with today's Digital Book World event, Inkling formally announced a program they have had running for some time now, what they call their Content Discovery Platform. A "way for publishers to make digital books more discoverable and profitable," Inkling is making any books within their format to be…

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Boys Are Showing More Interest In Reading, But Girls Report Less Love for Books

by on January 14, 2013 in Children's, eNews, New Business Models

Scholastic releases the fourth edition of their bi-annual survey, looking at views on reading of kids ages 6 to 17 and their parents. (The full survey comes out at 11, so much as we don't like to write up press releases only when looking at data, that's what we had…

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eNews: Smashwords Hits $15 Million and Adds EPUB, GoodReads Eyes Bookselling?, and iBookstore to Open In Japan

by on January 2, 2013 in Direct publishing, ebookstores, eNews, International News, New Business Models

Inside of some long and boosterish year-end blog posts, Smashwords made a couple of announcements. The privately-owned ebook distributor "will do around $15 million in ebook sales in 2012." In June 2012, founder Mark Coker had told Forbes he expected to double his 2011 gross to $12 million for the…

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Launches: Digital Noir, Spanish Self-Publishing, Nielsen Consumer Data, and Ruckus Revised

by on December 19, 2012 in Apps/iOS, Authors, eNews, International News, New Business Models, Self-publishing

Former editor-in-chief and creative director of the now-defunct LA Times Sunday magazine Nancie Clare and Rip Georges launch their new Kickstarter-backed Noir Magazine in Apple's App store today (with additional platforms to follow). It's an iPad magazine for the mystery, thriller, and true crime genres "in all mediums--a thoroughly modern,…

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New York Times to "Bookify" Archives and Experiment with Short-Form eBook Journalism

by on December 14, 2012 in eNews, New Business Models

The New York Times announced two ebook publishing programs yesterday. The paper is using Vook's ebook publishing platform to turn curated selections of previously-published articles into ebooks under the TimesFiles imprint, launching a collection of 25 titles next Monday "with many more expected to come in 2013." Initial titles include…

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Unlocking More Titles for Digital

by on November 15, 2012 in Audio, Direct publishing, eNews, New Business Models

The theme of today's enews reports is clear: a variety of initiatives to get more material into digital form in a variety of ways: Two multi-volume deals with Audible were announced yesterday. Digital publisher Diversion Books will see "the majority" of their backlist and new titles going forward turned into…

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Under Fire For Business Model Change, Flat World Says "After Analyzing Our Fall Results, It Was Necessary"

by on November 7, 2012 in Customized/personalized, eNews, Higher Ed, New Business Models

Flat World Knowledge vp Michael Boezi posted a letter to customers about their recent decision to abandon free browser-based access to their textbooks. They write: "As we struggled with the decision, we realized the timing would be an issue for instructors who had made their spring book selections based on…

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