It finally happened. The one hold out among the Big 6 publishers finally decided to go along with the pack. Random House will adopt agency pricing for ebooks for ebooks sold in the US starting on the first of March. Bleh. This was not the trend I wanted to see. I was hoping everyone would [...]
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Random House of Canada signed with Overdrive
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · press release
Random House and Overdrive announced a new distribution agreement today. In the near future, participating libraries in Canada will be able to buy and loan ebooks published by Random House of Canada. Um, why are we just now seeing this announcement in 2011? It’s hard to believe that this one of the big 6 publishers, [...]
Some random 8″ Android tablet clears FCC
November 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
The title isn’t rude; this tablet has no brand name nor any distinguishing features or abilities. It’s based on an 8″ (800×600) resistive touchscreen, and runs Android v1.5 on a 600MHz CPU, 128MB RAM. It has Wifi, microSD card slot, HDMI out, speakers, and a headphone jack, but no camera, accelerometer, GPS, 0r microphone. If [...]
Random House, Smashing Ideas to create children’s apps
September 13th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Random House, Inc., the largest U.S. trade-book publisher, announced today a partnership with digital media agency Smashing Ideas to develop book-based children’s Apps for mobile devices. Seattle-based Smashing Ideas is a cutting edge developer of immersive, interactive experiences for all screens, building digital products and destinations around brand characters in the [...]
Random House Children’s Books publish their first digital only title
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release:
Random House throw a snit over Andrew Wylie
July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
This post is a follow up to the the posts here and here. This keeps getting better and better. Random House Worldwide just released this statement: The Wylie Agency’s decision to sell e-books exclusively to Amazon for titles which are subject to active Random House agreements undermines our longstanding commitments to and investments in our [...]
Some random ideas for ebooks
June 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion, video
Kevin Rose of Digg just posted a video on Youtube, and he has a bunch of ideas for enhancing ebooks. Most of his suggestions are all that revolutionary. character bios (could be done now) shared annotations (Copia will do this) lend an ebook ( like the Nook) statistics page – This one could be neat. [...]
Random House fears iPad ebook price war
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the Financial Times: Random House, the world’s largest book publisher by sales, could keep its books from Apple’s iPad when it goes on sale next month, as the Bertelsmann unit fears the effects of the tablet device on the pricing of electronic books. Random House’s five big rivals – Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, [...]
Random House to Distribute for Smithsonian Books
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the press release: Smithsonian Books has reached an agreement with Random House Publisher Services for worldwide sales and distribution of its title catalog beginning March 27. …Smithsonian Books publishes a select list of illustrated, photography, reference and narrative nonfiction books. The publishing program includes categories where the Smithsonian’s authority is unparalleled: history, art, culture, anthropology, [...]
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