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Morning Links: The three forces shaping book publishing

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:20:20 +0000

The Three Forces That Are Shaping 21st Century Book Publishing (Mike Shatzkin) Seven Must-Consider Strategies for eBook Pricing (Digital Book World) Random House Experiments with eBook Convergence via Black Crown (GoodeReader) Australia to Propose Copyright Reform that Includes Fair Use (Tech Dirt) Kindle Daily Deals: Arab Summer by David Lender (and 3 others)

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Morning Links: The return of the social novel

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:35:58 +0000

Random House creates online narrative game (The Bookseller) “Random House is launching a debut author with a new free-to-play online narrative game, Black Crown.” Paper vs. E-Books: Science Answers All Your Questions (Mother Jones) “The implicit feel of where you are in a physical book turns out to be more important than we realized.” The [...]

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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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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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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: Hydra, social reading, mobile education and more

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:54:24 +0000

Q&A: Hydra DP and Digital Publishing Director Allison Dobson on New Author Contracts (Digital Book World) Is Social Reading the Future of Books? I Hope Not! (Good e-Reader) How to Use a Kindle as a Bookmark (Galleycat) Will Mobile Education Arrive in the Digital World? (Media Shift) Kindle Daily Deals: Blood Man by Paul Cleave (and [...]

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Random House’s Hydra changes contract terms

Susan Lulgjuraj — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:34:16 +0000

Many publishing insiders and authors have been discussing Random House over the past week. The company might wish it had stayed out of the news as criticisms came down over its digital imprints, especially Hydra, which handles science fiction. In case you missed the news, here’s the basic version: Contract specifications for Hydra were made [...]

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Two David and Goliath stories with happy endings

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:09:12 +0000

TeleRead has earlier covered two stories about some bad publishing experiments: The first was about the scammy contracts Random House was offering authors who signed with their digital-only imprint. The second was about a Canadian newspaper, the National Post, which was trying to extract ‘licensing’ payments from readers who were trying to quote from their [...]

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From the author of Fifty Shades, a how-to writing guide

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:22:05 +0000

It sounds suspiciously like a story from The Onion: ‘Fifty Shades’ author to publish writing guide. But nope—it’s actually a real-life AP wire story that appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s website this morning. Scheduled to be published on May 1 by Random House’s Vintage imprint, Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess (A Journal) will be a combination of author E.L. [...]

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Morning Links — More on the Mythical Hydra Beast

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:45:49 +0000

Here’s why American Airlines chose Samsung over Apple when it bought 17,000 tablets (Business Insider) Top novelists look to e-books to challenge the rules of fiction (The Guardian) Beware Random House’s E-Book Imprints (Forbes) Mythical Hydra Beast: Pros and Cons (Digital Book World) Kindle Daily Deals: The Chronicles of Narnia books for $1.99/ea. (and others)

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Morning Links: The best book design we’ve ever seen

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:54:15 +0000

The $13 txtr beagle eReader is Coming Soon, Will Cost the Same as the Kindle (The Digital Reader) Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs E-Book Experiment Explains Why We Use the Internet (Crunchy Roll) Random House accused of ‘predatory’ contracts for new ebook imprint (The Guardian) Like Amazon, Apple wants to create a marketplace for used [...]

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Morning Links — Time Warner; The Wizard of Oz; B&N

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:45:03 +0000

Barnes & Noble Names Book Award Winners (Good e-Reader) Time Warner Spins Off Magazines as Meredith Talks Fall Through (Paid Content) The Insanity of Making a Wizard of Oz Film in Today’s IP Climate (Techdirt) A Contract from Alibi, the Random House Digital Imprint (John Scalzi) Kindle Daily Deals: Vanished in the Dunes by Allan Retzky (and 3 others)

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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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A conversation with Amanda Close about BookScout, Random House’s new discoverability app

Aggregated Content — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:00:32 +0000

By Brian Howard Last week, following a soft-launch the week prior, Random House marched out BookScout, a Facebook app designed to link readers with books they’ll like but might not have discovered on their own. The recommendation engine draws on a user’s “likes”—both on one’s Facebook timeline and then directly through the app. Intriguingly, BookScout [...]

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