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eNews: Winning Hacks, New Launches, and More

by on May 20, 2013 in Direct publishing, eNews, Features/Offers, Publisher services

At least 30 projects were submitted as part of the Publishing Hackathon over the weekend, viewable here. Contestant Eric Hellman reports that the six finalists are: BookCity (suggests books to match places you visit) Captiv (turns your Tweets into book recommendations) Coverlist (shows 100 curated jackets; hover over an image…

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People: St. Martin's Reorganizes Marketing and Publicity Teams

by on March 20, 2013 in Authors, eNews, Free, Personnel, Publisher services

St. Martin's Press is reorganizing its marketing and publicity departments into four core groups as part of a move from "format-driven orientation to an audience-and-category-focused orientation." The groups will be made up of SMP's current marketers, publicists and digital marketers, each working on a specific set of genre groups. Anne…

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People: Firebrand Acquires Tallent's eBook Architects, and More

by on February 5, 2013 in Agency News, eNews, Free, Personnel, Publisher services

Firebrand Technologies has acquired eBook Architects, the ebook design and production company founded by Joshua Tallent. eBook Architects will continue business as usual from their Austin, TX office, serving their existing customers as well as helping Firebrand to build an "end-to-end service." Firebrand ceo Fran Toolan says in the announcement, "Working…

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eNews: McGraw-Hill's eTextbooks Adapt to Students; BabyFirst Digital Imprint; PIA Awards; and More

by on January 9, 2013 in Children's, eNews, Publisher services

At the Consumer Electronics Show, McGraw-Hill has announced an "adaptive e-book" for college texts, which "focuses students' attention on the content that is most critical to their learning." They will launch in the late spring for about 90 course areas. As the WSJ describes it: "All readers essentially see the…

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Open Road Pairs with Ingram to Offer Full-Service Digital and POD Distribution

by on December 6, 2012 in eNews, Publisher services

Starting in January, Open Road will offer a broad digital distribution service to individual authors, agents "with large catalogs of backlist books, and independent publishers who need help digitizing, formatting, and distributing their content digitally, putting them in direct competition with such players as Constellation and INScribe Digital. Open Road's…

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eNews: Hachette Commits to EPUB3; Fictionwise Will Shut Down on December 4

by on November 16, 2012 in ebookstores, eNews, Publisher services

Long on-the-verge EPUB3 may finally land. Hachette Book Group underscored their commitment to new standard and the enhanced content it supports, announcing that they will release 16 titles in EPUB3 between this November and next March. Beginning with titles across a variety of nonfiction genres and children's books, they plan…

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Corporate: Swann Steps Down as CEO of WHSmith; Final Suitors for McGraw-Hill Education;HarperCollins Moves to Streamline Global Publishing Infrastructure; and More

by on October 11, 2012 in Booksellers, Earnings Reports, eNews, Finance, Publisher services

Kate Swann will step down as ceo of WHSmith on June 30 after more than nine years, the company announced Thursday. She will be replaced by current managing director of Smith's high street business Steve Clarke. "It is an opportune time to make a change of leadership, and I am…

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From the Cloud, Hachette Announces Three Services for Other Publishers

by on July 26, 2012 in Apps/iOS, Children's, eNews, Features/Offers, Publisher services

At today's Publishers Launch Conference on Book Publishing In the Cloud, Hachette Book Group chief operating officer Ken Michaels announced three software-as-a-service offerings that the publisher developed for their own use and will now make available for license by other publishers, "allowing the industry to take advantage of our innovations."…

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eNews: Nook Finally Comes to the Web; Selectric Artists Launches eBook Imprint for Clients; And More

by on July 17, 2012 in Direct publishing, eNews, Publisher services

Barnes & Noble finally introduced its own free digital reading experience for browsers, NOOK for Web, for PC and Mac. Complimentary titles available for those who try the new offering through July 26 include Map of Bones by James Rollins, Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell, The Vow by…

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People, Etc.

by on June 27, 2012 in Direct publishing, eNews, Free, Personnel, Publisher services

At Ten Speed Press, Lisa Westmoreland has been promoted to senior editor. Jeff Olson has been promoted to executive editor, Business at Apress, a division of Springer Science+Business Media. Marc Visnick has joined Callisto Media as director of sales. He was most recently director of sales, North America for Lonely…

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