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Changes at Bookish
Following the October change in leadership at Bookish, the fledgling industry-wide digital platform for readers, a number of former CEO Paulo Lemgruber’s executive team have left the company.
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U.K. Publishers Ink Retail Deal with Social Reading Site
Anobii, a book and reading social networking venture that allows readers to post their books online as well as rate and post reviews, has signed retail partnerships with ten of the U.K.’s biggest publishers.
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B&N Expands Online Marketplace
Barnes & Noble is expanding its non-book offerings. The company, which already sells a variety of forms of media and entertainment, ranging from games to toys to crafts, is adding over one million new products to its online marketplace.
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RH and Politico Launch Online Bookstore
Teaming up for a second time, Politico and Random House will partner on an online bookstore called Politico Bookshelf that will target readers of the politics Web site.
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Abboud Looks To Put the ‘E’–In Levy
Although Dennis Abboud has not been directly involved with Levy Home Entertainment for more than a decade, the new owner of the book distributor said he kept a close eye on the company. “Levy has always been very well run. It’s very sound operationally,” he told PW. Abboud plans to build on that base by moving in several new directions that are tied to two of the most important trends sweeping the book industry—e-books and e-commerce.
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E-tailers, E-books Move Ahead
Online retailers continued to increase their market share of book purchases in the second quarter of 2011, according to the latest data from Bowker’s PubTrack Consumer service.
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B&N Pulls 100 DC Graphic Novels From Shelves Over Kindle Fire Deal
Barnes & Noble has instructed its stores to stop selling and remove the physical copies of the 100 graphic novels DC Comics plans to sell exclusively through the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. But the L.A. Times is reporting that the deal was probably only set to last four months.
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Lulu Titles Now on Nook
Lulu has struck a deal with Barnes & Noble that will enable Lulu authors to sell their e-books through B&N’s Nook e-reader.
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Scholastic Inks Deal with Sourcebooks for Its E-reading App
As Scholastic gets closer to launching a proprietary e-book distribution channel, it has signed an agreement with Sourcebooks to carry that publisher’s children’s e-books over the platform. Scholastic Book Clubs expects to launch the e-reading application later this fall.
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Is Amazon the Next Safari Books Online?
While speculation about the possible launch of an Amazon.com digital library often compares the rumored service to NetFlix, Hulu, or Pandora, it may be more accurate to compare it to Safari Books Online. Founded in 2001 as a joint venture between O’Reilly Media and Pearson, Safari Books Online is a subscription service offering online access to a library of technology and business titles.
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Christian YA Fiction Still Finding Its Footing
Eyeing the massive success of YA bestsellers like The Hunger Games and Twilight, many Christian publishers in recent years have positioned themselves to meet the fiction needs of readers in the 12–18 age bracket. For many, however, that market has proved an unexpectedly difficult nut to crack.
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E Not Replacing P
More results have come in about whether growth in digital sales will keep pace with the decline in print. In second quarter/six-month reports filed in the past two weeks, the common thread was an increase in digital revenue and a decline in print with overall sales falling or flat.
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Apple Forces e-Tailers to Remove In-App Links; Kobo to Offer HTML5 Browser eReader
In response to Apple beginning to enforce new iOS4 app design guidelines that prohibit in-app links that allow consumers to bypass the Apple purchasing system, retailers are scrambling to let consumers know that they can still read their e-books on their Apple devices and alternative ways to buy e-books.
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The Google eBook Eco-System
As part of its effort to raise Google eBooks' profile as an e-book retailer, last week the service's first dedicated e-reading device was announced. In a phone interview, Google eBooks product manager Pratip Banerji discussed the new device and outlined Google eBooks' plans.
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Kobo Launches E-book Store in Germany; Plans More
E-book retailer Kobo is opening a German e-bookstore, offering about 80,000 German-language titles. The launch will feature the release of German language apps for the Apple and Android OS devices and the Blackberry Playbook.
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Google eBooks Launches a Retail Affiliates Program
Google eBooks has launched an affiliates program that will enable publishers, bloggers, retailers and websites to link to Google eBooks and receive a commission for referring visitors to their sites to Google eBooks to buy books. The Google Afiliates Network was launched as a beta program at the end of 2010, teaming with social reading site GoodReads, which was able to send its members to Google eBooks when they were looking to buy titles.
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Brill to Use CoreSource
The academic publisher Brill has signed with Ingram Content Group to use its CoreSource platform to digitally distribute and archive scholarly books to bookselling partners worldwide. Annually, the company supplies 500 new books to libraries and academics around the world. Brill will offer titles from its Brill, Global Oriental, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP imprints through Ingram’s CoreSource platform.
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Open Road Partners with Ingram
Open Road Integrated Media has announced a partnership with Ingram to distribute their print-on-demand titles, including the 36-author “e-riginal” collaborative novel Hotel Angeline, through Ingram’s Espresso Book Machine channel and Lightning Source's print-on-demand network.
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F+W, Hoffman Media to Launch Martha Pullen Online Store
F+W Media is teaming with Hoffman Media and the Martha Pullen Company, publisher of Sew Beautiful Magazine, in a joint venture to launch store.marthapullen.com, an e-commerce website devoted to original content, classes, and a wide variety of products for the sewing and cross-stitching marketplace. The store is F+W’s 25th online specialty store and will launch on July 1.
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Lots More of the Same
The dynamics of the digital book market in early 2011 closely resemble the dynamics before the holiday buying surge, with the notable difference that many more book buyers now have some form of digital reading device.
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