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) ...

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 Nineteen Eighty-Four, with the title erased to signify censorship. Penguin Classics’ own website states: "In recognition of one of Britain’s greatest and most influential writers, Penguin Books, the Orwell Estate and The Orwell Prize are launching the inaugural ‘Orwell Day’ on 21st January with new editions of...

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 the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt...

15 Must-Have Collaboration Tools for Journalists (Media Shift) 3M Expands Collaboration with Penguin (Good E-Reader) The Kind of Journalism we Need is Changing but Can Journalists Make the Transition? (GigaOM) Digital Textbook Study Shows Interactive Features Were Used More than Embedded Videos (The Digital Reader) Kindle Daily Deal: Lit by Mary Karr {and} The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling * * * Follow us @TeleRead  Join us on Facebook...

The slow pace of ebook innovation (O'Reilly Tools of Change) The transformation of publishing (The Guardian) Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler on the Future of Discoverability and Social Reading (Digital Book World) A New Era for Books: The Random House-Penguin Merger Is Just the Start (The Atlantic) Kindle Daily Deal: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser {and} Puss in Boots by Eric Metaxas & Pierre Le-Tan * * * Follow us @TeleRead  Join us on Facebook...

Bertelsmann, the corporate parent of Random House, has purchased a 100 percent stake in Random House Mondadori. Random House created the publishing house for Spain and Latin America in 2001, splitting the shares 50/50 with the Spanish publisher. Spanish antitrust authorities still need to approve the acquisition, and the name will be changed “in the near future.” The move came one week after Random House decided to merge with Penguin next year, creating Penguin Random House. Read Full Article ... Source: GalleyCat * * * Follow us @TeleRead  Join us on Facebook...

  They’re going to the chapel and they’re gonna get married: Book publishers Penguin and Random House will become one after their parents company complete an upcoming merger. If the merging of companies in other industries is any indication, this new union could produce higher book prices as the two cease competing, as well as a possible dearth in the selection of titles. Read Full Article ... Source: The Consumerist * * * Follow us @TeleRead  Join us on Facebook...

So two of the largest publishers in the world are merging their book arms entirely to deal with "this exciting, fast-moving world of digital books and digital readers," to quote Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino. Could there be any clearer proof that e-books are where the action is, and that the print-only model is truly over? What price print Luddism now? What does everyone else think?...

Penguin, Random House Aims to Attack Emerging, Digital Markets (Paid Content) Barnes & Noble Nook eReaders Debut in UK (Good E-Reader) Douglas & McIntyre Collapse a New Sign of Publishing Industry Struggles (The Star) Why the Boom in Self-Publishing is a Mixed Blessing (NY Daily News) Kindle Daily Deal: Against His Will by Trish Jensen {&} Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling * * * Follow us @TeleRead Join us on Facebook...

New Study Suggests eInk is Not Better for Your Eyes than LCD (The Digital Reader) Penguin Brings eBooks Back to Libraries with Distributor 3M (Paid Content) Judge Posner on Copyright: Restrictive Fair Use a Risk to Creativity (Michael Geist) Hands On Review of the Kobo Glo eReader (Good E-Reader) Kindle Daily Deal: Breakdown by Katherine Amt Hanna (&) Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy E. Shaw * * * ...

Penguin Suing Authors for Failing to Deliver Books (The Smoking Gun) Why JK Rowling's New Book is $17.99 (Paid Content) Digital Books Took Center Stage at Shanghai Book Fair (Good E-Reader) iOS 6 and the Two-Year Lifespan (Funny Monkey) ♦ Kindle Daily Deal: Wicked by Jill Barnett (and) Heat by Mike Lupica...

Over the past few days, a wealth of information has surfaced regarding the $69 million settlement three of the so-called 'Agency Five' publishers will be paying to 54 states and U.S. territories for the alleged price-fixing of e-books. Still, information regarding what we consider to be two of the case's more immediately fascinating aspects—the cash refunds due to consumers, and the supposed changes this settlement (and the DOJ case in general) will ultimately have on the e-book industry—are still proving a bit tough to come by. For instance, in regards to the refunds that some consumers will be receiving: How much money, exactly, will they receive? How and when will they...