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Baen E-books Now Available Via Amazon Kindle Store
Baen Books, an independent e-book retailer and publisher specializing in science-fiction and fantasy, will make its e-book list available through Amazon’s Kindle store beginning sometime after mid-December 2012
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Macmillan Allowing Limited E-book Discounting
While it continues to fight the Department of Justice’s e-book price-fixing charges in court, Macmillan has quietly started offering retailers some flexibility to discount certain titles. In recent months, Macmillan began to allow their agents to discount e-books that are priced at $13.99 and above by up to 10% of the digital list price on a title by title basis.
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Retailers Now Offering Agency 2
In the wake of the Department of Justice e-book price-fixing settlement, retailers have entered into new e-book contracts with the settling publishers—HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster—agreements some retailers call “Agency 2.”
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Ganxy Adds E-book Collections
Ganxy,the online service that allows authors and publishers to sell content direct or through other e-tailers, is adding a feature to make is easier to sell multiple e-books in a single bundle.
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ReKiosk Lands Assange Retail Exclusive
ReKiosk, the independent online retailer, has landed an exclusive with Julian Assange. The start-up, which sells music and books (largely from indie labels and houses), is the only retailer selling Assange's e-book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, which OR Books released this week.
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Tablet Use, E-book Sales Grow Beyond Amazon, Nook
Tablets and other digital reading devices are expected to be big sellers this holiday season due in part to the growing number of devices available from a host of manufacturers.
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Fictionwise Sites to Shut Down December 4
Citing the growth in popularity of the EPub format and a decline in demand for other e-book formats, Barnes & Noble is shutting down its Fictionwise.com e-book retailing site and its affiliated sites effective December 4. Originally founded by Scott and Stephen Pendergast in 2001, the former independent e-book retailer was sold to B&N in 2009.
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Ruckus Reader Adds New Titles; Revamped App Coming This Month
Ruckus Media, a multimedia children's entertainment developer, is adding digital titles from five children's publishers to its Ruckus Reader app, a digital bookshelf, retail outlet and early reader learning platform.
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E-books Market Share at 22%, Amazon Has 27%
E-books accounted for 22% of all book spending in the second quarter of 2012, only a one percentage point gain from the first quarter of the year, but up from 14% in the comparable period in 2011, according to new figures from Bowker Market Research.
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B&N’s E-Ink Devices Go On Sale in U.K. Today
In a move that puts Barnes & Noble on the path to becoming an international content and technology provider, the retailer began selling its Nook Simple Touch (£79) and Nook Simple Glow-Light (£109) e-ink reading devices today at more than 1,600 retail outlets in the U.K.
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Ingram Adds E-tailers to CoreSource
Ingram announced this morning the names of e-book retailers that have joined its CoreSource Plus network over the past six months: Bilbary, Copia, Books-A-Million, iPublishCentral, Fishpond, BookShout!, Flikkt, Page Foundry, Baker & Taylor, and Ingram's e-textbook platform VitalSource Bookshelf have all signed on. All new retail channels are expected to be live by the end of 2012.
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Attorneys General Notice Says Final Payment for E-books May Change
After Amazon and other companies began notifying customers over the weekend that they are entitled to credits for e-books bought from publishers who are part of the e-book pricing fixing lawsuit, Kinsella Media, the "notice provider for the State Attorneys General E-book Settlements," has issued a release notifying the public about their rights under the state settlements.
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Amazon Shares 'Good News' About DoJ Suit With Kindle Customers
In an email sent over the weekend, Amazon alerted its Kindle customers that they are entitled to e-book credits as a result of the recently settled Department of Justice lawsuit filed against a group of publishers and Apple.
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Busy Kobo To Acquire Aquafadas, Raise Self-pub Royalty and More
After launching a self-publishing platform this summer, e-book retailer Kobo has enlarged its publishing portfolio again after agreeing to acquire Aquafadas, a digital publishing platform that allows publishers to easily and economically build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers without using a programmer.
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BookShout Addition Lets Readers Import E-Books from Any Platform
BookShout, a social reading and book retail application, is introducing new technology that will allow its users to legally import their previous and future e-book purchases into their BookShout account, free of charge, no matter where they were purchased.
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A New Way to Buy and Sell Digital Content via Ganxy
Ganxy, a three-year-old online service that was originally started to sell music, goes live today with the goal to give small and mid-size presses, in particular, an easy way to sell their content online.
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B&N Unveils Redesigned Nook Tablet Devices
Barnes & Noble has unveiled the 7-inch Nook HD starting at $199 (8GB) and a 9-inch Nook HD+ starting at $269 (16GB), a new generation of redesigned lightweight multimedia tablet readers with sharper, high resolution screens, faster processors and new shopping interfaces and recommendation software.
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Marks Out at Bookish
Caroline Marks, who took over as head of Bookish from Paulo Lemgruber just about one year ago, has left the company. A spokesperson confirmed Marks’s departure, but said the three founding Bookish publishers--Penguin, Simon & Schuster and Hachette—will move forward.
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A Mixed First Half for Worldwide Publishing
E-book sales accounted for roughly 20% of worldwide revenue in the first half of 2012 at four of the five large publishers that reported six-month results in recent weeks.
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