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April 14, 2008 |
MPS Upgrades BookStore Platform for Publishers As Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize the way publishers market books to their readers, MPS Technologies announced that it has upgraded its BookStore platform for publishers.   |
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February 12, 2007 |
Macmillan Launches Ebook Sites Macmillan has launched more than 30 ebook titles from its Macmillan New Writing and Macmillan Science imprints. These are now available to search and purchase online. |
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June 2, 2011 |
LibreDigital Launches Self-Service Ebook Distribution Portal The portal allows publishers with any kind of file to submit their ebooks for distribution on the Apple iBookstore and other marketplaces. |
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August 2000 |
Publishers Participate in Launch Program for Microsoft Reader E-Books Microsoft Corp. has announced that more than 30 book publishers have participated in a production launch program for Microsoft Reader with ClearType display technology, ensuring the availability of over 800 of their books for Microsoft Reader when it launches later this summer.... |
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September 24, 2012 |
Aptara Ebook Survey of Publishers Now Available Issued in April 2012 and sponsored by Publishers Weekly magazine and Aptara, the survey tracks the ebook publishing trends, challenges, and strategies that have emerged since 2009 when the ebook market began taking shape. |
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April 18, 2013 |
Publishers' Online Communities to Double by 2015 The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more than double over the next 2 years, according to new research released April 17, 2013 by Publishing Technology at The London Book Fair. |
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March 2009
Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
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August 28, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
NewsStand Introduces LibreDigital Warehouse Service for Book Publishers NewsStand, Inc. has established a new division of the company, LibreDigital, and launched a new service that allows book publishers to digitally capture and deliver selected book content online. |
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January 12, 2016 |
OCLC Partners With New Publishers for WorldCat Discovery Services OCLC has agreements with more than 200 publishers and information providers to receive their metadata. |
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September 10, 2015 |
iMoneza Introduces New Revenue Stream for Publishers iMoneza, a secure micropayment gateway for digital media, announced the availability of its cloud-based solution to help publishers develop a new revenue stream. |
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August 12, 2010 |
LibraryThing Announces New Feature For Publishers LibraryThing, an online service to help people catalog their books easily, has announced a new feature for publishers called LibraryThing for Publishers. |
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August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
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November 30, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Aptara eGen to Launch at Online Information in London Aptara has developed eGen, a web-based technology for converting high volumes of content into the EPUB format for distribution to multiple ebook readers. |
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September 18, 2008
Corilee Christou |
Perseus Book Group Introduces Constellation Service for Independent Publishers Constellation is a one-stop service offering digital conversion technologies and new distribution channels to small, independent publishers. |
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September 22, 2008 |
iCopyright Introduces Discovery for Content Monitoring and Infringement iCopyright announced the release of Discovery, a web-based service that finds both licensed and unlicensed uses of a publisher's content on the web. |
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October 2000 |
OverDrive Provides E-Book Authoring Tools and Publisher Portals OverDrive, Inc. has announced the release of its ReaderWorks Standard software, which is available as a free download at OverDrive's Web portal... |
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January 19, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Kurzweil's Blio: A Singular Challenge to the Ebook Industry? Designed specifically for electronic versions of books, newspapers, and magazines, the platform-independent Blio clearly sets a new standard and model for the graphical display and navigation of electronic content. |
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March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks |
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January 17, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The New World of Ebook Publishing Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today -- prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new models and channels for publishing, distribution, and sales. |
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June 3, 2013 |
IngramSpark Service Debuts Publish-on-Demand Platform This online publishing tool grants independent publishers easy-to-use, cost-effective access to Ingram's global distribution network for print and ebooks. |
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June 11, 2012
Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material. |
InternetNews
February 16, 2011 |
Google's One Pass More Profitable for Online Publishers Google introduces new payment system for digital content that's less prohibitive than Apple's plan - and more profitable for publishers. |
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February 22, 2011 |
Google Introduces Google One Pass for Purchasing Digital Content With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile apps. |
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April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
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July 1, 2010 |
LibreDigital Acquires Symtio Ecommerce Platform For the past 10 years, LibreDigital has helped publishers power the marketing and delivery of millions of ebooks to digital devices and marketplaces. |
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October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
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July 2, 2007
Karie Kirkpatrick |
Injecting Life Into the Ebook: Adobe Digital Editions 1.0 Released Adobe announced the release of its new ebook software, Adobe Digital Editions. |
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April 2009
Donald T. Hawkins |
Report from the Field: O'Reilly TOC 2009: Books, Reading, and Publishing O'Reilly Media held its third Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing conference in February in New York. |
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November 2, 2009
Nancy Herther |
Internet Archive Dishes up BookServer as Digital Books Market Heats Up BookServer is intended to be easy-to-use, while respecting authors' and publishers' interests |
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June 23, 2015 |
e-Libro Grows Its Premium Collection e-Libro added 10,000 ebooks to its premium offering from Spanish-language publishers. |
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August 2000 |
Bookface.com Launches with Ad-Based Business Model Bookface, Inc. has announced the launch of Bookface.com, a fully functional beta Web site that is the first to use its new proprietary technology. The site delivers whole books and excerpts to readers directly over standard Web browsers. |
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February 26, 2007 |
Convera Launches Publisher Control Panel The new service enables print and online publishers to add, manage, and refine vertical search capabilities so they can develop search-based revenues for their Web sites. |
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February 14, 2011
Cindy Shamel |
eBookFling Enters Scene as Ebook Lending Option Using the lending features offered through Amazon for the Kindle and Barnes & Noble for the nook, eBookFling facilitates book sharing between consumers. |
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April 12, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing. |
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January 31, 2013
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Adds Ebook Library (EBL) to Its Collection ProQuest signed an agreement to acquire Ebook Library from Australia-based Ebooks Corp. Ltd. After the transfer is completed over the next few weeks, Ebook Library will begin its merger with ebrary, acquired by ProQuest in 2011. |
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May 21, 2012 |
Unglue.it Officially Launches With Five Ebook Campaigns Unglue.it is a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their already-published books free to the world under a Creative Commons license. |
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November 3, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
It's a Perfect Market for MediaRiver--Acquisition Unites Content Technologies Perfect Market offers a very compelling option to publishers with rapidly growing content and declining ad revenue rates. |
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December 17, 2015 |
Ingram Acquires Direct Sales Service Ingram Content Group acquired Aer.io, a service that helps publishers, retailers, and authors sell print books and ebooks directly via their websites, blogs, and social networks. |
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March 11, 2010
Theresa Cramer |
O'Reilly Offers Ebook Expertise to Publishers Through Digital Distribution Services Division With the announcement of O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution Services, things may have gotten a little simpler for many publishers. |
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June 4, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
Intellext Morphs into MediaRiver to Flow Publishers' Content The company is putting its full energies into marketing a new Web services product that enables Web publishers to guide Internet users to the publishers' online content in a discovery-based contextual model. |
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June 17, 2013
George H. Pike |
Apple Ebook Price-Fixing Trial Underway The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, alleges that Apple conspired with several publishers to set ebook pricing as a means to counter Amazon's domination of the ebook market through its online ebook service and Kindle e-reader. |
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June 2, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Sources for Free Ebooks and Ereader Software The majority of the free ebooks available are older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books. Some sites, such as Amazon, offer newer free ebooks on limited time promotional offers. Barnes & Noble offers a limited number of Free Nook Books. The Sony Reader Store also offers some free ebooks. |
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March 5, 2009
Rita Y. Toews |
Read an E-Book Week March 8--14 Individuals interested in the environmental impact of electronic reading will find details of a life-cycle assessment of paper books versus ebooks. |
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October 1, 2009 |
Sony Store to Offer Ebook Self-Publishing Tool Sony announced relationships with ebook distributors Author Solutions and Smashwords to offer a self-publishing tool for the Sony online store. |
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July 31, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Inform Announces New Publisher Services and Initial Customers Inform Technologies, LLC has introduced Inform Publisher Services, which provides publishers and media companies with a "high-service, low-cost" technology solution for making their sites more accessible and engaging for readers. |
PC Magazine
December 10, 2009
Dan Costa |
Bad JooJoo and Other Threats to Digital Publishing Whether it's on an e-book reader, tablet, or PC, publishers are finally embracing digital media, but they could still screw it up. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2010 |
Amazon, Apple Face Pressure on eBook Deals Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is calling on Amazon and Apple to explain their pricing strategies for ebooks, eyeing "most-favored-nation" deals with publishers. |
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May 2, 2011 |
Primary Sources From Accessible Archives Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service Accessible Archives, Inc. is an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases encompassing rich, comprehensive material found in leading historical periodicals, books, and newspapers. |
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June 3, 2010 |
Barnes & Noble Announces PubIt! Digital Publishing Platform The easy-to-use digital publishing and distribution platform is designed to offer qualified independent publishers and authors of self-published works expanded distribution, visibility, and protection. |
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December 5, 2011 |
IndieBound Mobile Reading App Launches The just launched reading app allows book lovers to read ebooks purchased at their local, independent bookstores. |
