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  Espresso Book Machine to get Harper backlist

  2113 readers This is the type of thing that can lead to the Machine finally getting some traction.  From Publishers Weekly: On Demand Books’ Espresso Book Machine has had a difficult time gaining traction with just a couple of dozen booksellers using the printer, but the company hopes that will change now that it has reached

• ABA And On Demand Books Partner For Print-On-Demand

  1174 readersThe American Booksellers Association (ABA) and On Demand Books (ODB), the company that makes the print-on-demand Espresso Book Machine (EBM), have entered into a marketing partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, the ABA will market the machine ...

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  Smashwords Partners with ScrollMotion to Deliver Indie Ebooks to Major Mobile App Marketplaces

  3346 readersFrom the Smashwords blog: Smashwords books are coming to an app store near you. Today we announced an agreement withScrollMotion that will transform over 33,000Smashwords Premium Catalog ebooks into individual mobile apps for distribution to the largest app marketplaces for smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices. The relationship will gain Smashwords authors and publishers

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  What Is Most Needed to Develop the Global E-book Market?

  1417 readersFor much of the world the biggest issue is simple: lack of legally available content. By Edward Nawotka As many of the top global publishing professionals gather for UNESCO’s Focus 2011 conference in Monza, Italy, we want to know what you think is the single most pressing issue for developing the global e-book market. For much of the

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  DRM-Free eBooks from O’Reilly to Be Distributed Via OverDrive’s Global Network

  3495 readers From the press release: OverDrive announced today that booksellers, libraries, and schools in its global network will soon have access to DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media. The publisher’s entire eBook catalog will be available to OverDrive’s channel partners, including those in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and dozens of

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  Scholastic to offer Sourceooks’ children’s titles as ebooks

  1604 readers From the press release: Scholastic SCHL -2.27% , the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced a partnership agreement with Sourcebooks, a leading independent publisher, to offer their children’s titles through the Scholastic proprietary distribution channels as e-books on the new Scholastic e-reading application

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  HarperCollins to go POD with Backlist

  620 readersHarperCollins announced today that it was planning to start distributing its backlist catalog through On Demand Books. Around 5 thousand titles will be part of the “Comprehensive Backlist” program when it launches, and readers will be able to buy one of these titles at any bookstore that has an Espresso Book Machine. The EBM is a

• HarperCollins Settles With DoJ Over Pricing

  391 readers PRESS RELEASE: HarperCollins Publishers Settles e-Book Pricing Dispute with the Department of Justice New York, NY (April 11, 2012) — HarperCollins Publishers today announced that it has reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice to end its investigation into HarperCollins’ contracts for the distribution of e-books. HarperCollins did not violate any anti-trust laws and

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  Baker & Taylor to Offer Smashwords ebooks in Blio eReading Application

  1192 readers From the press release: Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world’s largest distributor of digital and physical books, together with K-NFB Reading Technology, developer of the Blio eReading application, today announced a distribution agreement with Smashwords that will bring nearly 100,000 independently-published ebooks to the Blio store. Blio is the feature-rich ereading application

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  OverDrive adds foreign language ebooks to catalog

  1200 readers From the press release: OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading global digital distributor of eBooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, has added thousands of foreign-language materials in dozens of genres to its broad catalog of more than 700,000 digital titles available across the globe. OverDrive’s online catalog, Content Reserve, which contains digital