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B&N College Integrates Social Media, E-Commerce at Bookstore Sites
Campus bookstore operator Barnes & Noble College has integrated the social networking features of its more than 500 campus Facebook pages into its e-commerce site, in a move that will create a seamless shopping and product recommendation capability for the campus retailer’s more than 250,000 Facebook page fans. Students can now “like” a product they buy from a campus bookstore and show off the goods they buy or would like to buy.
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BISG Survey Documents Rise of E-Book Use
The percentage of book buyers who reported downloading an e-book rose from 5% in October 2010 to 13% in January, according to the latest installment of Book Industry Study Group's "Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading" survey. The survey also found that among readers who have moved to digital reading about two-thirds said they mostly or entirely read e-books. E-book readers also reported buying more and spending more on books overall in the last six months, with 44% of responding e-book buyers saying they inceased unit purchases and 34% reported higher overall spending on a combination of e-books and print books.
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E-book Sales Explode in February as Other Segments Sink
E-book sales growth showed no signs of letting up in February, increasing at an even faster rate than they did in January. According to AAP’s monthly sales estimates, e-book sales jumped 202.3% at the 16 publishers that reported results, hitting $90.3 million.
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Severn House, Canongate, Granta Sign with Ingram for Digital Distribution
Ingram Content Group has entered into agreements with three independent publishers: Severn House, Canongate Books, and Granta Publications. Ingram's digital asset management platform CoreSource will distribute and archive content from the houses.
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Continuum Opens E-bookstore
The academic publisher Continuum has launched its own e-bookstore, Continuum eBooks. Continuum expects to have 2,000 titles in the store by the end of April with prices set at that of the lowest print edition. The company hopes to have 3,500 titles by June and while the store will initially be opened to individuals, Continuum expects to offer packages aimed at academic institutions starting at the end of June.
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Powell’s Gets App
To demonstrate what a time-location aware app can do, mobile app developer Spotlight Mobile, with offices in Portland and San Francisco, worked with Powell's Books as one of the first customers for its mobile app Meridian, launched earlier this week.
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New York's First Espresso Book Machine Debuts at McNally Jackson
While New York's downtown indie bookseller McNally Jackson has had the city's first Espresso Book Machine (which can print and bind books from, among other sources, Google Books, Lightening Source, or from files supplied by authors) for about a month, the store help a coming out party for it on Tuesday, February 15.
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Kobo Announces Partner Strategy for 2011
Kobo has announced an aggressive partnership strategy for 2011 with plans to vastly expand its footprint in the e-book space. Kobo has made partnerships with companies like Samsung and RIM to place Kobo e-reading software on their respective tablet devices, the Galaxy Tab and the upcoming Blackberry playbook.
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Kindle, Stieg Larsson Top Amazon's 2010 Bestsellers
Amazon has released it's "best of" list for the year, highlighting items in three categories: bestsellers, "most-wished-for," and most popular gift purchases. Not surprisingly the Kindle topped the e-tailer's bestselling products list -- which reflects total units sold -- and Stieg Larsson was #1 in both print and e-book. Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest was Amazon's top-selling book of 2010, while The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was the e-tailer's top-selling e-book of the year. The list reflects consumer activity from January 1 to December 15, 2010.
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iBooks: No iTunes When It Comes to Dominating the Market
Want an e-book version of the nation's bestselling nonfiction hardcovers? Don't bother looking on the iBookstore. Apple still hasn’t struck a deal with Random House, publisher of current hits like George W. Bush's Decision Points and Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken.
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Google Shakes Up the E-Book Market
On December 6, Google launched its long-awaited, cloud-based e-book program, Google eBooks. And while industry-watchers parse consumers' first impressions of the actual product, Google's program represents a milestone in e-book history.
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Chegg Acquires Cramster
Online textbook rental company Chegg has acquired Cramster, a social networking site that provides online homework help. Chegg says the merger will help it expand into course planning services.
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Seth Godin Launches Imprint Using 'Powered By Amazon'
Business book author Seth Godin has created a publishing imprint, The Domino Project, which will release an initial list of six titles using Amazon's new Powered By Amazon publishing program. The program gives authors access to Amazon's global distribution, multiple format production capabilities (print, audio, and digital), and marketing reach.
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Look Out Amazon, Google eBooks Has Arrived
Google Editions, now dubbed Google eBooks, has launched, boasting agreements with over 4000 publishers--offering about 3 million free and for-sale titles; the venture is very likely to give Amazon and the Kindle a run for leadership in the fast-growing, fast changing, e-book market.
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OR Books Partners with St. Mark’s Bookshop for E-Book Distribution
Small publisher OR books and NYC bookseller St. Mark’s Bookshop announced a partnership through which digital editions of select OR titles will be available for sale through a page on the St. Mark’s Web site.
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Copia Goes Live But Questions Remain
Copia, DMC Worldwide's much-anticipated book retail and social networking platform, officially launched yesterday. But while the Copia launch offers consumers an iPad app as well as client software for desktop and laptop computers that will allow consumers to buy and read books as well as connect with like-minded readers, Copia's debut seems to have raised more questions than it answers.
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Antolino Leaves Copia and DMC
Anthony Antolino, a former senior v-p at Copia, DMC Worldwide's new book retail and social network platform, and the executive most closely identified with launching the new platform, has left DMC and Copia. Antolino sent out an e-mail Thursday announcing that he was leaving the company.
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Copia's Book Retail Social Network Goes Live; Devices Cancelled
Copia, DMC Worldwide's much-anticipated book-focused social media and retail venture, has finally gone live. And in a surprise announcement, Copia has cancelled plans to produce its own line of branded digital readers and instead will partner with a variety of yet-to-be-named OEM partner/manufacturers to deliver the Copia software on their devices.
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Comixology Program Offers Free Access To App Development Tools
Comics resource site and digital developer Comixology has launched the Guided View Authoring Tools early adopters program, a new venture that will give independent artists and publishers free access to the development tools it uses to prepare comics for digital delivery through its Comixology app and digital retail channel.
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