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  Digital Manga Publishing Now Available on the Kobo

  1839 readersDigital Manga announced yesterday that it had signed a deal with Kobo books, and that its digital comics were now available in the Kobo Store. There are currently 90 titles from its DMP, Juné, and 801 Media imprints available for Kobo in a wide variet...

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  Amazon Launches New Publishing Imprint

  1252 readersAmazon announced Thomas & Mercer,  its fifth publishing imprint, today. This new imprint will be focused on mysteries and thrillers, and it’s launching with four books that will be released in Fall 2011. All 4 titles will be av...

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  New exclusive Kindle content: The Onion book collections

  1918 readersFrom the press release: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the national newspaper and website the Onion has created five e-Book collections exclusively for the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). These collections, presented by the Onion –”America’s Finest Tech News,” “Chronicles of the Area Man,” “The Finest Reporting on Literature, Media, and Other Dying Art Forms,” “The Best

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  Amazon announces mystery publishing imprint

  1788 readersFollowing up on its announcement of a romance publishing imprint, Amazon has announced it will also launch an imprint called Thomas & Mercer—named for the streets by its Seattle headquarters—this fall, to publish mystery titles. The titles will be available in print, Kindle, and audio formats, from Amazon itself and from national and independent booksellers.

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  Small Bookstores In Austraila Have New Way To Sell eBooks

  3158 readersIndependent bookstores are embracing eBooks in Australia. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, there is a new software that is allowing smaller independent bookstore to sell eBooks. And it’s not Google. The SMH reports: “The technology, develop...

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  Russ Grandinetti Explains Amazon’s Ambitious Goals

  3249 readersRuss Grandinetti, VP of Kindle content for Amazon, has ambitious goals for the Kindle store. In an interview with the LA Times, the Amazon executive, said that Amazon’s goal is to make “every book ever written, in any language, in print or out of p...

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  Booksellers marketing Google ebooks in clever ways

  1096 readersFrom Shelf Awareness: Booksellers are marketing Google eBooks in a variety of creative ways, Bookselling This Week reported. For example, among other steps, the Book Bin, Northbrook Ill., is offering loaner Sony Readers, has featured a range of e-readers in a store display and has a large sign in-store announcing that it is selling e-books.

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  Amazon lauches Italian Kindle store and Italian language Kindle; also Kindle Direct Publishing

  1674 readers From the press release: Amazon.it today launched the Italian Kindle Store offering customers the largest selection of Italian-language titles in digital with over 16,000 Italian-language Kindle books, a wide array of best sellers and hundreds of free Italian classics. In all, the new store offers customers over 900,000 titles–including thousands of global best sellers–in English and

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  New Kindle Exclusive: 91 Books from Bestselling British Author Dame Catherine Cookson

  2677 readersFrom the press release: Amazon.com today announced that 91 titles from Dame Catherine Cookson are now available as e-books for the first time, exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).  The collection of titles, including some which are out of print, represents the majority of the full-length novels from one of the UK’s most-read novelists.   These

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  Amazon Publishing launches sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint – 47North

  1112 readers From the press release: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of 47North, the seventh imprint from Amazon Publishing, focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror. 47North launches with 15 books, including “The Mongoliad: Book One,” the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of these