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Ingram to Distribute Some Amazon E-books
Amazon Publishing’s New York adult group has struck an e-book distribution deal with Ingram to distribute e-book editions of its titles to other e-bookstores through Ingram’s CoreSource. “We welcome Amazon Publishing’s New York adult group to the growing list of publishers who use our service,” said Phil Ollila, chief content officer at Ingram.
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B&N Picks John Lewis Department Store as First U.K. Partner
The first U.K. retailer to agree to sell Barnes & Noble’s Nook E-Ink readers is John Lewis, a department store with 37 outlets that carries a large selection of technology products. The chain will begin carry the Nook Simple Touch and Nook with GlowLight later this fall in Lewis electronics aisles throughout the U.K. as well as on its Web site.
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Amazon Launches India Kindle Store
Amazon has launched the India Kindle Store with over one million e-books, including 70 of 100 Nielsen bestsellers.
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Report: E-book Prices Fell in 2011; Boomers Don’t Buy the Most Books
Despite the contention by the Department of Justice that collusion between five major publishers and Apple led to higher e-book prices, a new report from Bowker shows that e-book prices fell across all major categories between 2010 and 2011. The average price of a fiction e-book in 2011 was $5.24, down from $5.69 in 2010. In nonfiction, the decline was more dramatic, with the average price falling from $9.04 to $6.47. In the juvenile segment, the average e-book price dropped to $4.47 in 2011 from $4.88, the report found.
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CourseSmart Partners with Blackwell's
CourseSmart UK, which was opened by the U.S-based CourseSmart in early 2012, is partnering with Blackwell’s to sell digital textbooks and resources to college students through Blackwell’s stores and Web site.
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CoverCake Signs Ingram, Inscribe Digital
CoverCake has entered into separate deals with Ingram and Inscribe Digital. CoverCake’s analytical tools allow users to track what books are trending on various social networks including Twitter and Facebook.
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Bilbary Adds Random House
Bilbary has added titles from Random House to its international e-bookstore Web site at
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Court Accepts ABA/B&N Brief in DoJ Price Fixing Case
The ABA and Barnes & Noble joint motion to file a friend of the court brief as part of the hearing to approve the final settlement between the Department of Justice and Hachette, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins has been granted by Judge Denise Cote.
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DoJ Files Motion Asking for Court Approval of E-book Agreement
As expected, the Department of Justice late Friday filed a motion with Judge Denise Cote asking her to approve the final judgment that the government reached with Hachette, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins in the DoJ lawsuit that charged the three with colluding with Apple to fix e-book prices.
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BISG Report Finds More E-book Buyers Buying Print Books
In another sign that the industry is moving toward a hybrid market, fewer e-book buyers reported buying only digital titles this spring than a year ago.
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ABA, B&N File Joint Motion for Amicus Brief in DoJ Deal
The American Booksellers Association and Barnes & Noble have teamed up to file a motion for permission to file a "friend of the court" brief in the Department of Justice’s settlement agreement with Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and HarperCollins.
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ReDigi Plans to Sell Used E-books
For serial entrepreneur John Ossenmacher, cofounder, president, and CEO of ReDigi, which bills itself as “the world’s first pre-owned digital marketplace,” the copyright infringement case filed by Capitol Records in U.S. District Court in Manhattan at the start of the year to shut it down is only a “hiccup in the road.” ReDigi, which launched its Web site (redigi.com) with used digital music late last year, is poised to start reselling e-books once the case is resolved.
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Diamond, iVerse Set to Launch Diamond Digital Service For Comics Shops
After more than a year of beta testing, delays and at least three layoffs, Diamond Comics Distributors and digital comics vendor iVerse Media announced plans to launch Diamond Digital, a digital storefront service that will allow comic shop retailers to sell downloads of digital comics, on July 23
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Google Play vs. Amazon: How the Two Bookstores Compare
After relaunching in March 2012 as Google Play, Google's foray into the digital content store arena seems to have finally coalesced into what the relaunch was originally intended to cater to: content for Google Nexus.
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The New Wild West
Despite efforts to digitize the classic textbook, higher education is moving beyond e-texts toward the integration of giant educational publishing platforms with university networks to create a one-stop interactive educational environment that supplies almost everything a student needs. While firms like digital publisher Inkling, educational tech company Kno, and others, are reinventing the textbook for the iPad, the ability of scalable online learning platforms to lower costs overall while improving learning outcomes could be the wave of the future.
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DC Comics Graphic Novels Now Available Via B&N’s Nook, NookColor Devices
DC Entertainment announced an agreement to digitally deliver DC’s line of full graphic novels through Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet and Nook Color tablet devices as well as through Android devices via B&N’s Nook for Android app.
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Readerlink Predicts DoJ Deal Will Lead to the 'Systematic Elimination of Competition'
In Readerlink's letter to the DoJ, giving a wholesaler's perspective on the proposed agreement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, the company states the settlement "sets the stage for the systematic elimination of competition by Amazon."
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Could Riffle Be the Pinterest of Book Discovery?
The Facebook marketing platform Odyl, which Scholastic turned to for the Hunger Games, is in the midst of rolling out a book discovery tool, Riffle.
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The Other E-book Retailers
The e-book store market may be dominated by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple, but a few independent online e-bookstores, patterned after bricks-and-mortar retailers, have carved out a lucrative niche. Some were emboldened as far back as 2003, when Barnes & Noble.com initially exited the e-book market that September. Others began ramping up before Amazon upped the ante by purchasing Mobipocket in March 2005. And some stores have recently begun extending their reach “now that,” as Stephen Cole, founder and CEO of Australia-based eBooks.com, puts it, “we can see what’s left now that that plague of locusts that was Amazon have passed through the market.” In March Paris-based Feedbooks.com raised one million euros in its first round of venture capital funding. EBooks.com is looking for “significantly more” later this fall, Cole says.
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BEA 2012: IPG to Offer DRM-Free Option to Clients
IPG announced Tuesday that the Chicago-based book distribution company is offering its client publishers the option of selling their titles without DRM.
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