October 17, 2012
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| Amazon Makes Major Push Into Schools With Whispercast Looking to broaden the reach of Kindle devices, and Amazon-purchased content for them, in educational and business institutions, Amazon.com announced the launch of Whispercast for Kindle, a new venture that allows organizations to distribute and centrally manage the deployment of multiple Kindle devices, and the content to those devices, in school classes, businesses training workshops or other institutional group settings. more »  Avon Books is launching AvonSocialReader.com, a free Facebook app that targets the romance reader, offering an extensive list of sample excerpts from Avon romance e-books offered at up to a 20% discount. The AvonSocialReader app also allows readers to purchase DRM-free Avon titles via the AllRomanceebooks.com retail site as well as DRM-enabled titles through other online retailers and allows readers to easily share titles they like with friends on Facebook and to comment on them. more » ADVERTISEMENT  The Shadow Gang, an interactive entertainment studio, announced plans at the StoryWorld Conference + Expo in Los Angeles to launch Galahad, a multi-platform, multimedia content distribution engine designed to produce and support a new generation of transmedia projects. Designed over the course of creating GoBrzk, a prepublication transmedia project designed to generate interest in writer Michael Grant's book series, Galahad is said to offer a simplified and economical technology platform for the production of complex interactive narrative events in a variety of media. more »  New York Comic Con Draws 116,000 Fans Pop culture fans jammed the aisles of the Javits Center for all four days of the New York Comic Con, held this past weekend. Attendance was estimated as 116,000 by show runner and ReedPop v-p Lance Fensterman, making it the second largest comics and pop culture show in North America. With badges already sold out—and scalpers selling them on the street for several hundred dollars—the lucky ones who got in were greeted with an all-you-can-eat buffet of comics news, favorite artists, Lego sculptures, cosplay parades and TV personalities. more » 
Humble Ebook Bundle Rumbles Along With a week to go before it closes out, the Humble Ebook Bundle has sold over 63,000 bundles and made some $847,000 for its authors and for charity by early Wednesday morning. The bundle, curated by bestselling author and PW contributing editor Cory Doctorow (whose new book, Pirate Cinema, is part of the bundle) is the first foray into e-books for the Humble Bundle, which has offered 16 promotions since 2010, including games and music bundles, making millions for the creators, and raising more than $7.2 million for charity. more » » After Amazon and other companies began notifying customers over the weekend that they are entitled to credits for e-books bought from publishers who are part of the e-book pricing fixing lawsuit, Kinsella Media, the "notice provider for the State Attorneys General E-book Settlements," has issued a release notifying the public about their rights under the state settlements. The notice states in part that the "exact amount to be paid per e-book" is not yet finalized. more » »  Mantel Wins Booker Prize Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Man Booker prize for Bring Up the Bodies. The author, who is published in the U.S. by Macmillan, is now only the third writer in the prize's history (after J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey) to win the award twice. Mantel's 2009 book Wolf Hall also won the prize, putting her in the unique position of being the first to win the award for a sequel (Bring Up the Bodies continues the story begun in Wolf Hall), as well as the first author to win the award twice in such a short period of time. more » » In a deal completed at Frankfurt, Open Road Integrated Media has reached an agreementl with French publisher Place Des Éditeurs to digitize, distribute, and market English-language editions of titles from Place Des Éditeurs' catalog in North America beginning in 2013. Place Des Editeurs, one of France's largest trade houses, is the third international house to join Open Road's international program, joining Mondadori and Barcelona eBooks. more » » Gryphon House, publisher of resource books for parents and teachers, is moving its distribution to Independent Publishers Group effective January 1. Gryphon has a backlist of about 200 titles. more » »
'New Yorker' Offers Take on Frankfurt: In The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, there's a dispatch from last week's Frankfurt Book Fair that notes the "juxtaposition of game giants with paper products seemed an accurate—if slightly disorienting." Arnie's Sales Disappoint: The Hollywood Reporter highlights the slow sales for Arnold Schwarzenegger's new memoir, Total Recall. Why Depp Is Into Print: The WSJ examines why Johnny Depp would want to get into something old fashioned like print books with his new HC imprint. Here Comes the Latest iPad : Apple has scheduled an October 23 that is rumored to unveil the company's latest tablet, presumed to be a smaller version of its iPad. Reading Is Fundamental, Indeed: An early childhood surrounded by books will leave positive fingerprints on a person's brain well into their late teens, says a two-decade study.
PWxyz Blog Craig Morgan Teicher Apple Sends Out Invites to Rumored iPad-Mini Event Apple has sent out invites to a 10/23 media event where the company will most likely introduce the iPad Mini, a smaller version of its tablet. more » Barbara Vey Happy Birthday Seekerville I'm over at Seekerville today helping them celebrate their 5th birthday. more » Josie Leavitt Event de Ole A slightly quirky author/illustrator captivates kids during a visit to the Flying Pig. more » Rose Fox Links for October 16 A post-vacation miscellany. more » Adam Boretz In the Studio with Jim Dale In the recording studio with Jim Dale and Random House Audio. more »
 A Signing Going to the DogsWallace the pit bull, the subject of Jim Gorant's Wallace: The Underdog Who Conquered a Sport, Saved a Marriage, and Championed Pit Bulls--One Flying Disc at a Time (Gotham, Sept.), is pictured here, on Saturday, at a signing in the Rochester, Minn., Barnes & Noble. At the signing Wallace was awarded the Pit Bulletin Legal News Organization's "Wallace Award" (named after him), for being the 2012 Pitbull Advocate of the Year. photo credit: Clara Yori |    
AAP Doing Education Conference for New Employees The Association of American Publishers is organizing a conference on October 24 centered on education called "Learning Solutions for Education: Young to Educational Publishing Conference 2012." The event will feature a variety of academic editors, as well as executives at educational publishers. more » | |||||||||||||||||||||
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