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Simon & Schuster Look To ‘Enhanced’ E-Books Beyond Apps

July 30, 2010
By David Kaplan
Simon & Schuster Look To ‘Enhanced’ E-Books Beyond Apps

Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore and on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Thursday. The title, which was already available in an Amazon Kindle version, represents the first test of whether Apple can challenge...
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Speed Read for Thursday, July 29

July 29, 2010
By By THE EDITORS
Speed Read for Thursday, July 29

Ebooks go multimedia and Post-Its go home in today's media coverage.
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Susan Kamil Moves Up At Random House

July 27, 2010
By By JULIE BOSMAN
Susan Kamil Moves Up At Random House

The editor of "The Imperfectionists" has been made publisher of the Random House and Dial Press imprints.
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Evanovich Takes Her Bounty to Random House

July 26, 2010
By By JULIE BOSMAN
Evanovich Takes Her Bounty to Random House

The blockbuster novelist Janet Evanovich has taken her scrappy bounty-hunter heroine Stephanie Plum to Random House, leaving her longtime publisher, St. Martin's Press, after more than two months of contract negotiations fell through.
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Choose Your Own Adventure Series Turns a Page

July 26, 2010
By By JULIE BOSMAN
Choose Your Own Adventure Series Turns a Page

Edward Packard, a writer for the Choose Your Own Adventure series, is creating interactive books to be formatted as applications for the iPhone or iPad.
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Random House Strikes Back at Wylie E-Book Deal

July 23, 2010
By By JULIE BOSMAN
Random House Strikes Back at Wylie E-Book Deal

Random House said it will stop doing business with the Wylie Agency, threatening its relationship with writers like Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.
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Don’t fragment books (or other content)

July 22, 2010
By Jeff Jarvis
Don’t fragment books (or other content)

I agree with Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear that Andrew Wylie’s deal to publish big authors’ backlists exclusively on the Amazon Kindle is bad for readers (and for authors and for the industry). Fragmenting content such that one has to buy one device to read one author and another to read another is blind to...
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Barnes & Noble Rebranding eReader Software To Nook; Adds Android App

July 22, 2010
By Staci D. Kramer
Barnes & Noble Rebranding eReader Software To Nook; Adds Android App

Today’s launch of an Android e-reader app marks Barnes & Noble’s first foray onto that platform—and a shift in strategy. Instead of “BN eReader for iPad” or “BN eReader for PC,” its e-reader apps and software are moving to the Nook brand. That will put Barnes & Noble (Read more »

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Tablets Are On The Rise But Don’t Count Out E-Readers—Or Amazon

July 22, 2010
By James McQuivey
Tablets Are On The Rise But Don’t Count Out E-Readers—Or Amazon

This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few billion here, a few billion there, blah, blah. How amazing is it that we’re not really surprised by...
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Amazon: Kindle Sales Growth Tripled Since Price Cut; E-Books Pass Print

July 19, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Amazon: Kindle Sales Growth Tripled Since Price Cut; E-Books Pass Print

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) still isn’t saying how many Kindles it’s selling, but that isn’t keeping the company from shouting how well it’s doing. The latest specifics and non-specifics from the company: “The growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled” since it cut the price of the Kindle...
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