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Penguin, NetGally announce partnership

February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Netgalley have just announced that in late 2011 Penguin will start distributing digital galleys through NetGalley. This will give Penguin access to over 19,000 reviewers, media contacts, booksellers, librarians, educators and other professional readers. “I’m very excited about our partnership with NetGalley,” Matthew Boyd, Publishing Coordinator at Penguin Group (USA) said. “Providing books to readers [...]

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Prestigio & Archos form partnership

January 5th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

At first glance it appears that Prestigio will be rebranding Archos’ tablets. But I’m not sure exactly what is going on here. Let’s wait for some pictures. From the press release: First results of this partnership will materialize in February 2011 with range of Android based Prestigio MultiPad internet tablet PC 7” and 10”. The [...]

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Borders, Chegg.com announce partnership

November 9th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

The testbook rental site Chegg have jsut announced on their blog that you can now rent textbooks through Borders.com As you know, you can already rent textbooks through our website Chegg.com, our iPhone app and Powered by Chegg rental stands in campus bookstores across the country – but today we’re excited to unveil yet another [...]

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Plastic Logic to expand research partnership with Leibniz Institute

October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Apparently they’ve decided to take a page from the grad student’s handbook: if you can’t cope with the market, stay in school. /jk EETimes are reporting that Plastic Logic and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany will expand their collaboration. The research, partially funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, [...]

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Borders, BookBrewers announce partnership

October 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · press release

Do you know how you can subscribe to a blog through the Kindle Store? Borders are trying to do somehting similar, only it’s not as good. This new arrangement will let you buy an ebook made from a blog, but it doesn’t appear that you can subscribe to the blog. Also, BookBrewer charge the blogger [...]

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Marvell, OLPC announce partnership & $5.6m grant

October 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news

Xconomy.com are reporting that Marvell will give the OLPC Foundation $5,6 million dollars in grant money so OLPC can take the lead  in developing the new XO-3 tablet. We’ve known since May that they were cooperating, and I’m glad they decided to push ahead . Negroponte also promised that the an early version of the [...]

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Macmillan, Ingram announce POD partnership

September 21st, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Ingram Content Group Inc. and Macmillan today announced a new distribution services model that will integrate Ingram’s print on demand (POD) and fulfillment capability with Macmillan’s publishing program.

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Asus, Txtr announce partnership

August 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news

According to Wiwo.de, the 2 companies will announce a new partnership at IFA Berlin next week. Txtr will run the European Asus ebookstore. It’s going to launch this fall and initially cover Germany, Britain, Spain and the Netherlands. More countries will be added later. Update:  This has been confirmed. Txtr licensed their ebookstore platform to [...]

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Foxit, Seclore announce partnership

August 6th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Foxit Corporation, a leader in PDF software solutions and Seclore, an Information Rights Management (IRM) provider today announced that they have entered into a new partnership to offer Foxit’s PDF viewing technology as part of Seclore’s security solution.”Foxit continues to expand its PDF technology within the enterprise market segment. Enterprise customers [...]

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Telefonica, FGEE announce partnership to advance Spanish ebook market

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Telefonica Spain and the Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE) , today signed a collaboration agreement to promote the incorporation of the phenomenon of Spanish publishers digitizing and marketing of their works over the Internet and the various reading devices.The agreement signed by Guillermo Ansaldo , president of Telefonica Spain, [...]

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