February 12, 2013
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 Inkling Previews Habitat and Inkling Content Display Platform After debuting the service in beta at last year's Tools of Change Conference, Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis returned to New York to relaunch Inkling Habitat, a free multimedia authoring platform, designed to allow publishers to create multimedia-enriched digital content and distribute it through major e-tailers. In a presentation at Time Warner Center, MacInnis also previewed the Inkling Content Discovery Platform, a new platform that indexes Inkling content to Google searches and turns search results into a web storefront for e-book sales, and announced new partnerships with HarperCollins and other publishers. more »  With the sale of McGraw-Hill Education to the Apollo Global Management Group expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter, McGraw-Hill Cos. reported the company's results as discontinued operations. According to MHC, the net loss from discontinued operations in in the fourth quarter was $406 million and $239 million for the full year. In 2011, MHE posted full year operating income of $320 million on sales of $2.29 billion, and had fourth quarter operating income of $38 million on revenue of $516 million. The loss in 2012 includes $497 million of impairment charges. more »   Kno Launches Advance, a New, Free Multimedia Authoring Platform The race to offer easy-to-use authoring tools for multimedia enhanced e-books continues after Kno, an educational software developer that creates multimedia content for the iPad, announced the release of Kno Advance, a new authoring tool that allows publishers to quickly turn a PDF into multimedia-enriched interactive content and much more. The software is designed to produce thousands of titles or make updates and claims to make adding new multimedia or text content quick and easy. Kno is offering the new software tool free of charge. more » Livrada, Inc., which launched last year with its e-book gift card venture, announced that it has raised a round of seed funding from ICG Ventures Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, along with Angel investors Thomas Lehrman. The company also launched Livrada for Authors, allowing any writer to create custom e-book cards. more »
ReDigi Takes Stage at CEO Roundtable At Monday's CEO Roundtable, co-hosted by Tools of Change and Publishers Weekly, ReDigi Inc.founder John Ossenmacher talked about his company, which offers a new platform for consumers to re-sell their digital goods, particularly content. more » » Self-publishers who register through Bowker's MyIdentifiers.com Web site are now offered Data Conversion Laboratory's EPUB on Demand, the company's e-book conversion capability. more » » The small indie science fiction press, JournalStone Publishing, has a new book with some big authors. The press will be publishing a new anthology called Limbus, Inc., along with its sequel, in the spring. The first book, set for April, will feature stories from five authors, including Anne Petty, while the second book, Limbus, Inc. II, will also feature five stories, one by Joe R. Lansdale. more » » Author (R)evolution, the full day conference for self-publishers that kicks off O'Reilly's Tools of Change, is being streamed live for the first time and is available to anyone who provides an email address. more » » Rebecca Strauss has joined DeFiore and Company as an agent. She was most recently an agent at McIntosh and Otis, working in the adult department, and was director of subsidiary rights. She represents nonfiction, literary and commercial fiction, women's fiction, urban fantasy, romance, mystery, memoir, humor and pop culture. Kate Stark has been promoted to associate publisher for Putnam and Riverhead. The new title is in addition to her role as v-p, director of marketing. She has been with the company since 2007. more » »
Should You Publish Your Own Novel?: Author Holly Robinson lists four things to consider before you self-publish. Carrbor, NC, Indie Closing: Nice Price Books in Carrboro, NC, is set to close after 27 years in business. The Japanese Hate On E-Books: Fortune explains why the Japanese are not fans of digital reading. How the People Saved Book Publishing: Forbes.com publishes an excerpt from the new e-book by DBW's Jeremy Greenfield. Poetry In a No. Vietnamese Prison: NPR discusses how prisoners created poetry through "taps on the wall."
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash The 10 Most Notorious Parts of Famous Books The most controversial and challenging passages from great books. more » Barbara Vey Bill Spence Loves Writing Romance Bill Spence, 89 from England has been writing romance novels for the past 20 years under the name of Jessica Blair. more » Elizabeth Bluemle Books You’d Unpack First If you moved house right now, and could unpack just one shelf of books to christen your new home, what would be on that shelf? more » Rose Fox Con or Bust Auction Is Open Con or Bust will help send fans of color to SF/F conventions. more »
 Main Street Books Adds Used BooksAfter 16 years as a new-book only general interest bookstore, Main Street Books in Mansfield, Ohio, is adding used books to its inventory. At the store's Sweet Sixteen birthday party at the beginning of the month, manager Llalan Fowler announced the change. "Many people come in every week asking for the used books. I'll be happy to have an answer to that question now," she said. "Bookstores are centers of culture, and incorporating used books will get even more people involved in the store's and the area's events." To build its used book selection, the store is asking for donations of gently used books. It plans to offer store credit for used books in the future. |     | ||||||||||||||||||
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