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Apple’s New Mavericks OS Offers iBooks
Apple has just released Mavericks, an updated version of its OS X operating system, which now features support for iBooks, Apple’s e-book reading and iBooks store software.
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Small Demons Extends Deadline to Find Buyer
Small Demons, the L.A.-based book-focused venture that indexes the places, music, food and things mentioned in books, has extended its deadline for finding a buyer or new investor for at least another month.
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A Mixed Blessing in Slowing E-book Sales
It is rare that an industry would see the declining growth rate of its fastest-growing product as anything but bad news. But many in the book business see the slowdown in the sale of e-books as a positive.
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BookShout Debuts Facebook Preview Integration
BookShout, a social reading and book retail application, has launched a new integration feature that allows anyone on Facebook to see BookShout members’ book lists and to preview books available through the BookShout store.
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Booksellers Can Sell Kindles Under New Amazon Program
Beginning today Amazon is starting a new program, Amazon Source, through which bookstores and other retailers can sell Kindle devices and in return receive 10% of the revenue from every Kindle e-book sold for a two-year period.
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Kodansha, Crunchyroll Talk Global 'Simulpub' Manga
Crunchyroll Manga is live and PW talked with Kodansha International's Tatsuya Morimoto and Crunchyroll's Robert Newman to get more details about this new worldwide digital comics publishing venture.
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Viz Manga Now Available via Apple's iBooks Store
Following recent deals to release the Viz Media manga catalogue on the Kindle and Comixology in Europe, Viz is now offering more than 1600 volumes of digital manga for sale through Apple’s iBookstore.
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HC Creates E-bookstore for C.S. Lewis Titles
HarperCollins has created a new e-book platform that will allow it to sell e-book editions of C.S. Lewis titles directly to consumers from two Lewis Web sites, CSLewis.com and Narnia.com.
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Damage Estimate Shows $1.54 Billion in E-book Revenue
In a filing last week, attorneys for the states and consumer class put Apple’s estimated damages for its role in an e-book price-fixing conspiracy with publishers at nearly $308 million.
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Data Mining Scribd Subscriptions
According to Scribd's early analysis of user data of its e-book subscription service, 4.5 books were browsed for every book read.
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Indie Authors Launch Petition Reacting to Retailers' Censorship
In the wake of a mounting controversy over a number of retailers removing titles from their Web sites because of inappropriate material, a group of authors have generated a petition asking retailers to "leave our erotica and self-published Indie authors alone."
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Open Road Partners For Spanish-Language Global Venture
Open Road Media is teaming up with Barcelona Digital Editions to form Ciudad de Libros/Open Road Espanol, a partnership that marks Open Road’s first venture into the foreign-language e-book market.
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Graphic Novels Rise 6% in Q3; Comixology, Viz Europe Ink Deal
The graphic novel market reported sales growth of 6% in the third quarter of 2013, according to the annual industry White Paper; and Comixology, the digital comics vendor and marketplace, announced a digital distribution agreement with Viz Media Europe and released some consumer data.
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Vital Source Adds The Philippines
Ingram’s Vital Source e-textbook platform has expanded to the Philippines, signing an agreement with educational publisher and distributor C&E Publishing.
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Vital Source Opens New E-Textbook Store in U.K.
Ingram Content Group’s Vital Source Technologies, a digital textbook platform, announced plans to expand its VitalSource BookShelf digital e-textbook store to the U.K. digital book marketplace.
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Simon & Schuster Begins School Test for E-books
Simon & Schuster has begun a pilot program aimed at making 450 of its most popular children’s and young adult titles available for use in school classrooms as e-books.
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E-book Sales Growth Slows in 2013
New data from Bowker Market Research provides more evidence of the slowdown in the growth of e-book sales in 2013, although the format still managed to capture more market share.
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ReaderLink Head Calls for Higher E-book Prices
Warehouse clubs, mass merchandisers, and other big-box retailers remain important to publishers because they not only sell books, they are places where books can be discovered.
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Riggio Addresses B&N Annual Meeting
In his first public appearance since he declined to purchase the B&N retail stores, B&N chair and founder Len Riggio responded to questions on B&N strategy in the wake of continuing Nook device losses and on his no-buy decision during the B&N annual shareholder meeting.
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What the Apple Price-Fixing Case Means for Apple, Publishers and Consumers
Judge Denise Cote last week signed a final order for injunctive relief in Apple’s e-book price-fixing case. How did the parties in the case ultimately fare, and what battles still loom? PW takes a look at the broad strokes of the price-fixing suit’s endgame.
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