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  Macmillan’s Tor Imprint Launches DRM-Free E-Bookstore at Tor.com

  1371 readersBy Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Following its recent announcement that it will be selling its e-books without DRM starting this summer, Macmillan’s Tor/Forge science fiction and fantasy imprint has announced that it will be selling those e-books through its own store. The store at Tor.com will sell DRM-free e-books “from all of the Tor

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  Tor/Forge to launch DRM-free direct-to-consumer e-book store

  1348 readersTor/Forge has announced, via a posting to blog Tor.com, the impending creation of a direct-to-consumer DRM-free e-book store, to carry SF books from Tor and fantasy books from Forge. The store is scheduled to go live sometime in “the summer of 2012,” which meshes with Tor’s prior announcement that all its books would be going

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  TOR/Forge Unveils DRM-Free eBook Store

  1283 readers The science fiction and fantasy publisher Tor/Forge has revealed plans for a DRM-free eBook store. In July, the publisher will begin selling Tor, Forge, Starscape, Tor Teen, and Orb digital books without copyright protection through the store. If more publishers follow suit, this could dramatically change the way eBooks are sold and read on digital devices. Publisher

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  What Advice Would You Give to the Publishers of the Future?

  537 readersWould you tell them to focus on fundamentals or forge a path of their own? By Edward Nawotka There are numerous publishing training programs that offer publishers insight into how to do their jobs better. Some, such as the Yale Publishing Course, are for mid-career professionals, others, such as those in Abu Dhabi, Denver, New York, or Calcutta (as

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  AT&T to Sell Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G LTE Beginning Friday

  686 readersAT&T  will begin to sell Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 4G LTE 32 GB tablet beginning this Friday. The wireless carrier is selling the device for $399, the same price that Amazon sells it for. However, customers that sign up for a two-year data plan from AT&T will get a discount and will only have to

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  Scholastic Adds Children’s eBooks from Sourcebooks’ to its Reading App

  1191 readersScholastic announced today that it had expanded its eBook to include titles from Sourcebooks, a leading digital publisher. Sourcebooks will be distributing its current releases, backlist, and all future releases through Scholastic, which will enable Sourcebooks to quickly penetrate the academic market. Scholastic will be carrying the eBooks on its new digital reading app, which is

• Sourcebooks Launches New Series of Enhanced E-Books

  709 readers PRESS RELEASE: UPDATE: Read more about this experimental Sourcebooks project (Sourcebooks Continues to ‘Experiment’ With 2Go Enhanced E-Book Series) Classical Music, Presidential Speeches and Poetry “2Go” Sourcebooks Launches Enhanced Ebooks from Bestselling Mixed-Media Imprint Naperville, IL (March 21, 2012)—In celebration of today’s anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, Sourcebooks MediaFusion is releasing an enhanced, introductory ebook on

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  Sourcebooks Reports Successful Year and Announces Initiatives

  854 readers Sourcebooks’s Vice President and Editorial Director Todd Stocke issued a bulletin to colleagues in the publishing industry reporting record-breaking sales and exciting initiatives in the traditional and digital space. Coming just before Book Expo America convenes, it will certainly burnish the company’s reputation as an industry leader. The text is below, but not hotlinked. Richard Curtis ************************ Dear Friends

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  Selling ebooks in bookstores – in Canada

  1069 readersPublishers Weekly reported on the third annual Canadian Booksellers Association National Conference.  On the ebook presentations they said: Both presentations on e-book innovations came from Canadian companies. As announced just before the conference, Quebec-based Transcontinental Printing is now offering English Canadian bookstores access to an e-book distribution system that Transcontinental has already been using for

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Self-Publishing

  1971 readersAdvantages and Disadvantages of Self-Publishing http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-self-publishing/ Compared to traditional publishing, self-publishing is faster in many ways, at least until you finally release it. Thi...