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Feedbook Store now sells ebooks from Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster & Penguin

February 14th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Hadrien just announced the expansion of the Feedbooks Store on his blog. The 2 month old ebookstore sells ebooks from self-published authors along with eBooks from “non-agency” publishers (such as Random House for example). Today, Hadrien added three new “agency” publishers to the mix: Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster & Penguin, with more to com [...]

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Simon & Schuster relaunch CYOA books as iOS apps

August 4th, 2010 · No Comments · iPhone app, software reviews

Do you remeber the old Choose Your Own Adventure books? Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing have decided to revive the concept with book apps. They’ve released one title so far, Return to the Cave of Time, with more titles coming in the fall. It’s unfortunate that they took so long to release this. It doesn’t [...]

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Simon & Schuster revive the reader driven novel

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing have launched a new interactive novel called Loser/Queen by Jodi Lynn Anderson. The first 4 chapters of the novel have been uploaded on the website, and it’s up to the readers to choose what happens next. New chapters will be posted every Monday with the last to be uploaded on [...]

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Simon & Schuster launch mobile site

July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Every day more and more consumers are using mobile devices to access the web, and Simon & Schuster Digital is pleased to now be able to connect those on-the-go consumers to a mobile-optimized version of the company’s acclaimed website, simonandschuster.com. The new site, www.simonandschuster.mobi, will appear whenever a user attempts to [...]

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Baker & Taylor signs deal with Simon & Schuster, De Gruyter

May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news

From the press release: Baker & Taylor Inc., the world’s largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, today at Book Expo America announced it has signed agreements to provide print-on-demand services – via its TextStream Digital Print Service unit – to Simon & Schuster and German academic publisher De Gruyter. …The agreements [...]

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Ebooks made up 9% of Simon & Schuster sales last quarter

May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Simon & Schuster reported $12 million in digital publishing revenue for Q1 yesterday, which is roughly a 233 percent increase over the previous quarter’s $3.6 million. Included in the $12m are sales of stand-alone apps, e-books, and audio downloads. S&S has six paid iPhone apps. Let’s put this in perspective. Ebooks were about 3% of [...]

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Amazon Strikes Book-Pricing Deals with Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins

March 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news

From the Wall Street Journal: Two major book publishers have struck new electronic-book pricing deals with Amazon.com Inc., just days before the launch of Apple Inc.’s much anticipated iPad tablet device. The agreements, with CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster and News Corp.’s HarperCollins Publishers, will enable both publishers to set their own e-book prices. The [...]

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