Digital publishing and technology

Kobo teams up with ABA to offer ebooks to U.S indies

The American Booksellers Association has partnered with Kobo to sell ebooks and e-reading devices. Kobo will now provide ABA members nearly three million ebook titles, as well as ereaders and accessories. The company will also ... Read More »

August 30, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling, Digital publishing and technology

Random House of Canada launches online magazine as part of digital overhaul

By Stuart Woods

What does a major publishing house look like in the digital age? Random House of Canada has offered one answer with today's launch of a multifaceted digital strategy that includes an online magazine (known as ... Read More »

August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Kobo has edge on Kindle in Japan, despite unsteady launch

By Stuart Woods

A report from The Japan Times offers a window onto the battle heating up in that country between Kobo and Amazon, the latter of which is playing catch-up in releasing the Kindle e-reader. Kobo, of ... Read More »

August 16, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Google to buy Frommer’s brand from Wiley

By Natalie Samson

Google has announced it will acquire Frommer's series of travel guidebooks from current publisher John Wiley & Sons. The deal will expand Google's investment in local hospitality reviews and ratings, reports The Wall Street Journal. ... Read More »

August 13, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology, Industry news

Wattpad teams up with Margaret Atwood to launch Atty Awards for international poetry

By Natalie Samson

Wattpad, a Toronto-based online community for international writers and readers, has put out a call for submissions for its first ever Atty Awards recognizing work by undiscovered poets. Winning entries will be selected by Margaret ... Read More »

August 2, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Digital publishing and technology

New app features Jean-Luc Picard, Dr. Who reading Shakespeare’s sonnets

By Natalie Samson

The minds behind the best-selling iPad app adaptation of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (and the periodic table of elements, if you swing that way) are now offering mobile users the chance to hear William ... Read More »

July 27, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Random House Television launched

By Katie Gowrie

Random House and FremantleMedia, two companies owned by the media corporation Bertelsmann AG, have partnered to launch Random House Television “ a new project that will develop television content from Random House books. Galleycat quotes ... Read More »

July 26, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Amazon’s rumoured same-day delivery service could crush U.S. booksellers

By Katie Gowrie

Amazon may be looking to launch a same-day delivery service, which could have a serious impact on U.S. booksellers. Retailers breathed a sigh of relief after Amazon agreed to charge sales tax on their products ... Read More »

July 18, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Atwood raises $54,000 to take the LongPen mobile

By Natalie Samson

First there was the LongPen. Next, the LongPen went digital as iDoLVine LiveSign. Now, Margaret Atwood and a team of techies are looking to bring fans and artists even closer with the rollout of Fanado ... Read More »

July 11, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Crowdfunding website Kickstarter becomes big player in graphic novels

By Sue Carter

According to research conducted by Publishers Weekly, crowdsourcing website Kickstarter is now one of the top revenue-generating graphic-novel publishers in the U.S. From February to April of this year, graphic novelists and comic artists who ... Read More »

July 11, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

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