Motion comic pioneer Madefire has just signed a deal with Hasbro and will be giving away a new five issue Transformer series away for free. Madefire is hoping to capitalize on the new film coming out at the end of the month and drawing attention to their Windows 8 app, launched last week.Transformers: Punishment is all-new original content developed within the current IDW … [Read more...] about Madefire Launches Windows 8 App and Celebrates with New Transformers Series
Onyx MIDIA InkPhone Goes on Sale Today
Onyx Boox has been teasing their Android driven e-ink smartphone for the last year. It is very much akin to your Amazon Kindle or Kobo Aura, because it uses the same type of e-paper display. The compelling features is long battery life and the ability to read in direct sunlight, on your phone. The Onyx MIDIA InkPhone is finally available today.The Onyx InkPhone is running … [Read more...] about Onyx MIDIA InkPhone Goes on Sale Today
Overdrive Unveils Pay-Per-Use Lending Model for Warner Brothers Movies
Overdrive unveiled their streaming video service last year and the service allows Canadian and US libraries to offer digital movies to their patrons. The company has just signed a distribution deal with Warner Brothers that will add hundreds of new titles to their catalog, but with a catch. Libraries no longer have to buy the titles in advance.Libraries will be able to … [Read more...] about Overdrive Unveils Pay-Per-Use Lending Model for Warner Brothers Movies
Perseus Book Group Sold to Hachette and Ingram
Perseus Book Group was founded in 1996 and has been acquiring small imprints to expand their business. Over the course of the last few years the entire publishing industry is consolidating and Perseus was a solid acquisition target. Hachette has announced they are purchasing Perseus and absorbing all of their imprints and then selling the distribution business to … [Read more...] about Perseus Book Group Sold to Hachette and Ingram
McGraw-Hill and Follett Partner for eBook Distribution
McGraw-Hill has partnered with Follett to better target K-12 Schools via Follett’s Market Leading Destiny Platform.McGraw-Hill Professional’s catalog is one of the premier eBook collections in the world for education, business, consumer, technical, and medical titles available on the market today. McGraw-Hill Professional is offering more than 4,500 new and backlist eBooks, … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill and Follett Partner for eBook Distribution
CNBC Produces 1 Hour Show about Amazon
Amazon is a global e-commerce giant that capitalized on selling physical books online and then diversified into eBooks. The company is notoriously silent when it comes to the inner workings of life in Seattle and once in awhile we get an introspective, such as the Anything Store by Brad Thor. CNBC has produced a new one hour documentary telling the story of a shrewd visionary … [Read more...] about CNBC Produces 1 Hour Show about Amazon
Podcast: What is Co-Op Placement for eBooks? Amazon Fire Phone, Reading Stats and Lots More
Welcome back to a jampacked edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today Editor Michael Kozlowski and Digital Book Worlds own Jeremy Greenfield bring you up to date on the world of publishing and tech.The Amazon and Hachette battle is bringing out a bunch of dirty laundry, such as co-op placement. When you walk into a bookstore and see a big table with the editors choice, … [Read more...] about Podcast: What is Co-Op Placement for eBooks? Amazon Fire Phone, Reading Stats and Lots More
Apple Heavily Discounts Upcoming Hachette eBook Titles
Apple is capitalizing on the media circus surrounding Amazon suspending pre-orders on all of Hachettes upcoming titles. iBooks users will find 26 eBooks have been discounted to $9.99 or less, including JK Rowling’s new book The Silkworm and a book from bestselling American author James Patterson.Pre-orders are very important to publishers as they are a major factor in … [Read more...] about Apple Heavily Discounts Upcoming Hachette eBook Titles
Organized Crime Focuses on Book Scanning in Spain
Asian organized crime is focusing on book scanning on a massive scale in Madrid and Seville. Police recently arrested three people and seized 8 large printing machines, at various facilities, that were capable of printing and scanning 1,000 books in a few weeks.The investigation and subsequent arrests follows a complaint from the copyright protection arm of Spain's authors … [Read more...] about Organized Crime Focuses on Book Scanning in Spain
New Blackberry Passport Phone will Feature Amazon App Store
Blackberry reached an agreement with Amazon to have the Amazon Appstore bundled on future phones and will also be included in the 10.3 update. The first phone to have the new store featured on it in an official launch will be the Blackberry Passport this September.Passport was previously known as ‘Windermere‘, the often-leaked QWERTY device will sport a 4.5-inch 1440×1440 … [Read more...] about New Blackberry Passport Phone will Feature Amazon App Store
Follow the Line App Review and GamePlay
Follow the Line has a ridiculously easy premise you hold your finger down on the screen and follow the lines. The game itself is punishing hard, similar in vein to Flappy Birds and Follow the White Tile, where you can quickly devote a few minutes to the game.The first few minutes of the game, is rather easy. It goes from straight lines to figure eights and finally with lots … [Read more...] about Follow the Line App Review and GamePlay
Good e-Reader App Store Unveils Automatic App Updating
The Good e-Reader Android and Blackberry App Store is the largest indie app market in Canada. Today, they have unveiled a new upgrade to their app store client, that users install on your device to make downloading or discovering new apps, quick and efficent. The new update will automatically notify and install app upgrades, ensuring that all of your favorite games or apps are … [Read more...] about Good e-Reader App Store Unveils Automatic App Updating
Google Play Books Expands into 12 New Countries
If you have an android driven smartphone or tablet, chances are the Google Play Store is bundled on it. Aside from installing apps, the company also sells digital books via Play Books. A few times a year Google opens up their ecosystem to a few new countries, slowly making their bookstore more viable. Today, they have expanded their reach into an additional 12 new … [Read more...] about Google Play Books Expands into 12 New Countries
You will be Shocked How Often Young People Read
Young people are increasingly turning to technology such as smartphones and tablets as an avenue to keep themselves entertained. This comes at the expense of spending leisure time expanding their minds through the process of reading. The American Time Use Survey recently issued a report that will be quite startling for parents. It proclaims that teenagers 15 to 19 only read for … [Read more...] about You will be Shocked How Often Young People Read