The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has just put out a report linking 18 children’s books (out of a test group of 30) to wood that was harvested from Indonesia’s endangered rain forests. The 30 books are from the top ten U.S. children’s publishers, and most of the publishers had at least one title that failed [...]
Entries from May 24th, 2010
Books@BEA – new Con resource from Above the Treeline
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
From the press release: Above the Treeline, a leading provider of business intelligence tools to the publishing industry, is pleased to announce that the on-line product catalog for BookExpo America 2010, called “Books@BEA” has now gone live and is available for attendees and other interested book professionals to use. The catalog currently has over 300 [...]
March 2010 ebook sales nearly tripled
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The AAP put out a press release today with the reported sales figures for the USA book market. Note that this isn’t the complete data on the market, just what was reported to the AAP. Here is what the press release said about ebooks: E-book sales jumped up 184.8 percent for the month ($28.5 million), [...]
Ebrary announces new digital library pilot program
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · digital library, Uncategorized
From the press release: To help public libraries address the growing needs of school students, job seekers, and other library patrons, ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced a new pilot program that combines more than 20,000 e-books from leading publishers under a simultaneous, multi-user access subscription model; free access [...]
Adobe Reader for Android now available
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
The app is now available for free in the Android Market. Don’t get too excited; this isn’t Adobe DE for Android. (Can you tell that I want Epub support?) This is only the PDF reader, and it has some fairly steep requirements: Android 2.1+ and a 550 MHz CPU. Perhaps I’m being too harsh in [...]
B&N to sell Pandigital Novel – new e-reader
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · bn, hardware news
Here’s the big news: B&N just announced a new version of their eReader Android app. (The Pandigital Novel runs Android.) All I have at the moment is the press release and product page. I’m also at the whim of a bad Web connection, so I can’t go look for more detail. The upside is that [...]
Tags:bn·ereader·pandigital·sell
Coming this week from TDR
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I thought I’d take a few minutes and tell you what you can expect this week. I’m here in New York for BEA 2010. (I just checked into my hotel.) I plan to cover the BEA conference tomorrow and Wednesday, and on Thursday I’ll be on the show floor visiting the booths of the various [...]
Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group signs deal with Hanvon
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group is a Chinese newspaper conglomerate that publishes foreign language newspapers in 10 countries ( including English language editions in China). They’ve signed a deal with E-reader manufacturer Hanvon so their periodicals will be carried in Hanvon’s ebookstore. From the Shanghai Daily: United Press Group, the parent of Shanghai Daily, has tied [...]
Pearson buys Melorio
May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the Wall Street Journal: Publisher Pearson PLC said Wednesday it has struck a deal to buy London-based training firm Melorio PLC for £99.3 million ($142.4 million), in a move signaling Pearson’s growing interest in the vocational-education sector.The acquisition comes two weeks after Pearson netted $2 billion before tax by selling a 61% stake in [...]
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