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S&S’s Reidy is Next at the Apple Trial
S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy was feisty and contentious at the Apple trial, often challenging the intent of the government’s questions or offering unsolicited interpretations of its language and phrasing.
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PDP Launches E-book Bundling Retail Network
eBookBundles.com is the parent site of a new network of e-book retail storefronts focused on genres—including retail sites for sci-fi, romance and fantasy--that offers bundles of titles by a variety of authors at an economical price.
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The Case Against Apple
At what was supposed to be a routine final conference last Thursday, May 23, before the June 3 start of the government’s trial of Apple over e-book price-fixing charges, the company and its lawyers were given a glimpse of the challenges they face in clearing Apple’s name.
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TheReadingRoom.com to Offer Print Titles
E-book retailer/social media Web site TheReadingRoom.com is getting into the print game. The Web site will begin selling print books on June 1, launching the program at BookExpo America.
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MetaComet's AuthorPortal.com Goes Live
After three months of beta testing, MetaComet will release AuthorPortal.com to publishers at BookExpo America.
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Looking for the Next Goodreads
When Amazon announced in March that it would acquire Goodreads in the second quarter of the year, there was much handwringing, along with tweeting and Facebooking, especially by independent booksellers.
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Online Retailers, E-books Gained in 2012
At Publishers Weekly’s May 8 discussion series on trends in consumer book-buying, held at the offices of Random House in New York City, Carl Kulo, U.S. director of Bowker Market Research, highlighted the major shifts that took place in 2012 in such key areas as sales by format and by channel.
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BookShout Gets $6 Million
BookShout, the social reading and book retail application, has raised $6 million in new funding that it will use to expand its digital book distribution and engagement platform.
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German Court Nixes Selling Used E-books
Weeks after a U.S. court rejected ReDigi’s bid to resell digital files, a German court ruled that digital books can’t be resold by purchasers.
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Sony Partners with iDreamBooks.com, Book Discoverability Site
The Sony Reader e-bookstore is partnering with iDreamBooks.com, a book discoverability site that aggregates book reviews and rates titles much like film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, to offer iDreambooks’ ratings on the retail site.
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O’Reilly to Distribute Elsevier E-books
Today’s distribution deal between O’Reilly Media and Elsevier will expand the depth of e-books available from O’Reilly in computer security and networking.
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Open Road Ramps up Translation Program with Five Deals
Five European publishers have signed with Open Road Integrated Media to have Open Road distribute and market English-language digital editions of their books in English speaking territories.
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More Than a Digital Book World
With e-book and total digital sales posting steady—if generally smaller—increases in 2012, sales of print books held up fairly well across the book trade and at most major houses.
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Floridis Joins Zola; Retailer Plans Expansion Abroad
Zola Books, the new independent retailer unveiled at 2012's BEA, has hired Tad Floridis as director of international business development.
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Indie E-Book Retailer Books On Board Halts E-book Sales
Blaming stiff competition, and the impact of the abrupt switch to the agency model, Bob LiVolsi, owner of the indie e-book retailer BooksonBoard.com, has halted business operations.
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Curious George Gets Multi-Platform Treatment
The popular monkey is the first of HMH’s children’s book characters to be the focus of a new digital approach.
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Kobo E-reader Devices for Sale at Kobo.com
E-book retailer Kobo is offering its suite of e-reading devices for purchase through the Kobo.com Web site for customers in the U.S. and Canada.
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E-book Sales Bolster Publishers' Bottom Lines
E-book sales had a major impact on all of the major trade publishers' 2012 performance, with Random House coming out the biggest winner thanks to the success of the 50 Shades trilogy.
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Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Draws Raves, Pans on Twitter
Goodreads members and the book community on Twitter responded vociferously to the acquisition of Goodreads by Amazon.com, offering both sober analysis and an outpouring of mordant, gloomy wit about the future of the social reading site.
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Amazon Buys Goodreads
Amazon has acquired Goodreads.com, a Web site featuring user-generated reviews of books. The purchase comes amid mounting rumors that Goodreads, which CEO Otis Chandler launched in 2007, might start selling books.
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