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Penguin Turns “The Pocket Scavenger” Into an Interactive Creativity App

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:44:20 +0000

Until I opened an email this morning from a publicist at the Penguin Group (USA), who’d sent me a press release about the company’s newest so-called “creativity app,” The Pocket Scavenger, I was under the impression that I was at least somewhat tuned in to the world of Android apps. But apparently, not so much. Penguin, it [...]

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Morning Links: The Atlantic launches new e-book division; e-book sales are up in the UK

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:21:42 +0000

Multi-Million Dollar Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Penguin, Author Solutions (The Digital Reader) 2012 eBook Sales Increased by 66% in the UK (Good e-Reader) The Atlantic Launches New eBook Division with e-Singles and Curated Content (Paid Content) Permission-Based Publishing: The New York Publishing Model and Why it Doesn’t Work (Huffington Post) Kindle Daily Deals: Greatest Knight [...]

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Morning Links: Ebook anxieties increase; no jury for Penguin; and more

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:27:57 +0000

OverDrive’s Upcoming API Will Allow Ebook Checkout Directly from OPAC (The Digital Shift) Publishing should fight ebook retailers for more data (Boing Boing) Ebook anxieties increase as publishing revolution rolls on (The Guardian Judge: No Jury for Penguin in E-book Case (Publishers Weekly) Kindle Daily Deals: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (and 3 others) [...]

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Average price of best-selling e-books on the decline

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:45:57 +0000

E-books seem to be costing consumers less money. Digital Book World tracks the prices of e-books on the best-sellers lists every week. Last week, the news site found e-books on the lists averaged more than $8 a book. After a week where a new publisher (Macmillan) allowed discounted prices, the average price of e-books on [...]

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App Review: Poems by Heart, a Penguin Classics app

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:19 +0000

Poems by Heart is a new app from Penguin Classics designed to help readers memorize great poems. It’s a clever concept. You can browse the available poems and read them—or have them read to you with narration. And when you’re ready to learn the poem, a fill-in-the-blanks game that gets progressively more difficult helps you [...]

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Penguin to Stop Windowing Library Books (Bonus: Cool workaround for Penguin library books)

Juli Monroe — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:05:40 +0000

You may have already seen that Penguin is going to stop the windowing of library book titles. That’s a good thing, and I applaud the decision. I’d be more excited if my library was part of the 3M system, and if Penguin wasn’t having books “expire” and require a repurchase every year, but some library books [...]

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Morning Links: UK Gov’t releases library lending report

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:00:09 +0000

Report: Penguin to Cease Windowing Library Titles (Digital Book World) UK Government Releases New Report on Library Lending (Good e-Reader) Battle Lines Drawn in HarperCollins/Open Road eBook Suit (Publisher’s Weekly) License Restrictions: A Fool’s Errand (Nature.com) Kindle Daily Deals: Nate in Venice by Richard Russo (and 3 others)

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Feeling Bookish: CEO Ardy Khazaei on the real aims—and real benefits—of the publisher joint venture

Brian Howard — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:45:18 +0000

While it’s odd to think of an organization backed by the Penguin, Hachette and Simon & Schuster as a startup, Bookish, the new book-recommendation and -discovery site is essentially that. After two years in development under three CEOs, Bookish is now a reality, a place where users can get recommendations—based on titles or groups of titles [...]

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Morning Links — Is an Amazon antitrust lawsuit inevitable?

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:12:32 +0000

Pearson Launches New Incubator Company for Startup Companies (Good e-Reader) Amazon’s Price Parity Clause Attracts Attention of German Antitrust Regulator (GigaOM) Audible Users Get an iPad App (Galley Cat) Random-Penguin & Libraries (Digital Book World) Kindle Daily Deals: The Cider House Rules by John Irving (and 3 others)

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DOJ Approves Penguin Random House Merger

Juli Monroe — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:37:01 +0000

One hurdle down. Several more to go with the EU, Canadian Competition Bureau and various other antitrust authorities around the world still needing to weigh in on this. Penguin’s settlement with the Justice Department was a move to smooth the way for this merger, and it looks like that move worked. Note that Random House, [...]

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BREAKING: Macmillan Settles with DOJ on Price Fixing

Juli Monroe — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:30:07 +0000

Apple is now the lone hold-out. As you may recall, three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster—immediately settled, leaving Penguin, MacMillan and Apple to fight it out in court. Penguin settled in December, probably to protect their pending merger with Random House. And now Macmillan joins its fellows. Macmillan CEO John Sargent cited financial reasons [...]

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Penguin launches Partridge, a self-publishing platform for India

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:01:42 +0000

In partnership with a Bloomington, Ind.-based self-publishing organization known as Author Solutions, Penguin Books India made an interesting move today by launching a self-publishing platform specifically for the Indian audience. It’s a tactic that may one day soon bring the Subcontinent at least somewhat closer to actualizing the self-publishing revolution that seems to have taken over much of [...]

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Morning Links — Barnes & Noble VP on tablets and e-readers

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:59:22 +0000

Barnes & Noble VP Jim Hilt on Tablets, eReaders & Discoverability (Good E-Reader) iOS Newstand App Offers Early Peek at New Magazines (GigaOM) As Tablets Supplant eReaders, New Challenges Arrise for Publishers (The Digital Shift) Penguin to Distribute POD Books Via Espresso Book Machine (The Digital Reader) Kindle Daily Deal: Pago Pago Tango (and 3 others)

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New Orwell cover designs obscure an Orwellian copyright saga

Paul St John Mackintosh — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:08:47 +0000

Penguin Books, along with its seriously talented team of graphic designers, is making great play of its latest rebooting of the George Orwell franchise. Coverage from the Huffington Post to the Creative Review lauds Penguin’s brave and high-minded initiative to relaunch Orwell’s works with bold cover designs that recall the original Penguin editions—only, in the case of [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:38:15 +0000

The Holiday Gift: To eBook or to Hardcover (An American Editor) Publishers Brace for Authors to Reclaim Book Rights in 2013 (Paid Content) Who Owns Your Right to Turn Pages? (Digital Book World) Penguin Partners with Baker & Taylor for Library Books (Good E-Reader) Kindle Daily Deal: Devil’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens {and} Lizzie Bright and [...]

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