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iBooks Bestsellers: Roth Back on Top
After a brief stint at #1, Michael Lewis's "Flash Boys" fell four spots to #5 on Apple's iBooks bestseller list.
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Apple Loses Another E-book Decision
Judge Denise Cote yesterday rejected Apple’s November 2013 motion to dismiss the states’ class action claims for lack of standing.
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Total Boox Offers a Week of Free Reading
Total Boox, an unusual e-book delivery service based on metered reading, is making its library of 20,000 e-book titles available to the public to read entirely for free during the week of April 13 to April 20.
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Knewton, Sanoma Partner to Offer Adaptive Learning in Europe
Knewton, a company that produces adaptive learning software, has an agreement with European educational publisher Sonoma Learning to use the Knewton API in digital content produced by Malmberg, its Dutch publishing division.
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New Schedule Set for Apple Damages Trial
It is official: Apple’s tentatively scheduled May damages trial has been moved to July. In an order filed yesterday, Judge Denise Cote set out a new schedule for the parties, culminating with a July 14 trial.
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FarFaria App Offers kids’ Stories for $3.99 Per Month
Offering a colorful and fanciful interface with more than 600 digital stories for kids, FarFaria is a subscription app for the iPad, providing unlimited access to its content for $3.99 a month.
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Booktrack Raises $3 Million, Expands to Classrooms
The e-book soundtrack platform is moving into the education space.
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HarperCollins Canada Publishes Rock Star’s E-book Serial
HarperCollins Canada experiments with publishing a multimedia digital original fiction series with text, illustrations and soundtrack created by Bedouin Soundclash frontman.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Lewis Unseats Roth
For the first time in nearly two months, Apple has a new top seller.
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Sequential App Adds Top Shelf Graphic Novels
Sequential, the digital comics storefront app focused on literary graphic novels, is adding a selection of Top Shelf graphic novels for purchase.
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BISG, Firebrand Partner on E-book Training Program
eBook Ninjas will provide professional development for e-book developers, managers, and publishing execs.
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Apple Moves For a Stay in E-book Case
Despite a string of lopsided losses in court, Apple attorneys press for a stay, noting that an appeal victory would "radically change" the legal landscape.
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London Book Fair 2014: New Blood
On April 1, Michael Cairns officially replaced the retiring George Lossius as CEO of Publishing Technology.
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Poetry Gets a Hip New Look
The Academy of American poets, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, is one of the most important American organizations entirely devoted to poetry.
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DC Periodical Comics Now for Sale on Google Play
DC Entertainment’s list of serialized superhero comics will now be available for sale on Google Play along with digital editions of DC and Vertigo original graphic novels and collected editions.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Patterson, Roberts Hit the List
James Patterson and Marshall Karp's "NYPD Red 2," and "Shadow Spell," by Nora Roberts, were new to the top ten on Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended March 31.
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Authors Guild's Constantine Testifies
In testimony delivered before a House subcommittee, AG counsel Jan Constantine recapped the AG’s long running copyright dispute with Google and offered one possible solution—a collective licensing agreement for digital presentation rights to out-of-print books.
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Readmill to Close
Readmill, a social reading app and company based out of Germany, is closing. TechCrunch first reported the news that Dropbox has acquired the app, with plans to shut it down.
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Kobo Inks Deals with Nickelodeon, Blue Apple Books
In separate announcements, Nickelodeon Publishing and Blue Apple Books reached agreements to make their children’s titles available for sale through e-book retailer Kobo.
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XanEdu, SharedBook to Merge
In a move that will combine two privately held firms that specialize in creating custom course materials for higher education, XanEdu and SharedBook, which includes AcademicPub, its self-service coursepack division, will merge.