Book publishers are increasingly embracing digital books, and not just on Amazon’s Kindle. Today, John Wiley and Sons, Barnes and Noble imprint Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and the University of Chicago Press announced they will join a total of 150 publishers to offer ebooks in the Scribd Store. Wiley is the venerable publisher of the For Dummies series of books as well as Frommer’s travel guides and CliffsNotes.
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Ever since electronic books emerged as a major growth market, New York’s largest publishing houses have worried that big-name authors might sign deals directly with e-book retailers or other new ventures, bypassing traditional publishers entirely.
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Now, one well-known author is doing just that.
Stephen R. Covey, one of the most successful business authors of the last two decades, has moved e-book rights to two of his best-selling books from his print publisher, Simon & Schuster, a division of the CBS Corporation, to a digital publisher that will sell the e-books to Amazon.
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Random House Reports Big Digital Book Increases - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
Sources report that over the first half of the year, eBook sales at Random House have increased by 400 percent.
According to a leaked report obtained by Crain’s NY, digital book sales at the company have increased dramatically. Despite impressive growth, the company called it “an incubatory period” for the digital book industry–a fraction of the company’s overall revenues.
Американские авторы объединились для создания е-книг | Pro-Books.ru
Писатели создали организацию, дабы выпускать свои книги в электронном виде без помощи издателей. Как сообщает журнал Bookseller, группа американских писателей, включая Урсулу Ле Гуин, решила миновать стадию традиционного издательского процесса и самостоятельно подготовила электронные версии своих новых произведений. Они предназначены непосредственно для чтения на ридерах Kindle and Sony. Организация Book View Press была основана в начале этого года членами сообщества Book View Cafe, в котором состояли 27 авторов, на чьем счету числилось немало бестселлеров и наград.
Jane Friedman Starts Open Road Integrated Media, an E-Book Company - NYTimes.com
Sixteen months after stepping down as president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors including William Styron, Iris Murdoch and Pat Conroy in electronic form.
Together with Jeffrey Sharp, a film producer of features including “Boys Don’t Cry” and “You Can Count on Me,” Ms.
World’s Second Largest Publisher: $9.99 eBooks Will Kill Hardcover Books
Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of the world’s second largest book publisher, Hachette Livre, says that the current pricing trends for eBooks may soon kill the hardcover book as we know it. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nourry says that he worries that the combination of the $9.99 price for bestsellers and the fact that Google now offers millions of out-of-copyright books for free could destroy profits for traditional publishing houses.
Does Digital Cannibalize Print? Not Yet. - Tools of Change for Publishing
Over the past 18 months, we’ve gone from print outselling digital by more than 2:1 to just the opposite.
За последние полтора года издательство соотношение проданных O’Reilly бумажных и электронных книг 2:1 изменилось на противоположное.
Рынок электронных книг ожидает дуополия Amazon и Google - Культура - Литература - Электронные книги - Компьюлента
Корпорация согласилась платить по 60 долларов за каждую отсканированную книгу, защищенную авторским правом. Кроме того, правообладатели смогут решать, стоит ли размещать рекламу рядом со страницами книги на соответствующем сайте. Если реклама будет разрешена, правообладатели получат комиссионные. Наконец, Google поможет правообладателям с выплатой налогов. Соглашение создало еще один источник доходов для издателей и авторов — библиотеки.
App Developer Strikes E-Book Deals With Major Publishers | Epicenter from Wired.com
ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Publishers now on board include Houghton Mifflin, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Hachette and Penguin Group USA. The first official books will begin to roll out Monday and include titles such as Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight,” Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass” and a number of others by Christopher Paolini, Brad Meltzer and Scott Westerfeld.