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  1187 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Nicholas Callaway is on a mission to build the publishing company of the future. Callaway, 58, is the founder and chief content officer of Callaway Digital Arts, a New York and San Francisco-based app development and publishing company. Founded in late 2010 with $6 million of series A

• Sesame and Callaway Win Kids App Award

  1755 readers Sesame Street and Callaway Digital Arts has won a Cynopsis: Kids !magination Award for best preschool app for their collaboration on The Monster at the End of This Book app based on the best-selling children’s book of the same name. The awards are organized by Cynopsis, a free daily e-publication covering the business of children’s entertainment;

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  Thomas The Train Arrives On The iPad

  3145 readersThomas the Tank Engine is coming to the iPad. Digital publisher Callaway Digital Arts has teamed with HIT Entertainment to publish the first Thomas app called Misty Island Rescue. The new kids’ book app is based on the Thomas & Friends feature f...

• New CEO for New York Times, Digital Innovation a Priority, E-Books on the Agenda?

  675 readers [Press Release]  Mark Thompson to Become Next President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company Thompson to Focus on Growing Business, Digital Innovation and International Expansion; He will be Appointed to the Times Company Board The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today that BBC Director-General Mark Thompson will become its next president and

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  Perseus CMO Rick Joyce: Marketing Is the Next Frontier (Video)

  1106 readers Now that many publishing houses have figured out how to digitize their front- and back-lists and have begun building e-book sales, the next step is to hone the art of e-book marketing, according to Rick Joyce, chief marketing officer of the New York-based Perseus Books Group, the largest independent publisher in the U.S. and a

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  Columbia publishing course shifts focus to include ebooks

  2278 readersThere’s an interesting article from the New York Times that’s making the rounds this week, about how a long-running, and hugely popular, publishing course at Columbia University now includes topics on digital publishing and ebooks. The summer session began with a focus on “The Digital Future.” Students were schooled in “Reinventing the Reading Experience: From

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  Amazon throws down the gauntlet – hires major agent to start publishing venture

  1628 readersAmazon has started some imprints and done more than a little in the pure publishing space, but now it has, it seems to me, thrown down the gauntlet in front of all of the major publishers.  There will be more than a few conferences going on in the offices of the major publishers today.  Here’s

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  Early bird rates for our Self-Publishing Finishing School end tomorrow

  222 readers Want to get your manuscript published, but not sure how to get started? Join our Self-Publishing Finishing School starting April 3, 2013. Weekly live video webcasts feature a variety of great speakers, including  including Mark Coker (founder, Smashwords), Colleen Hoover (bestselling self-published author), and Guy Kawasaki (author, APE! What the Plus!). Join Mediabistro publishing editor Jason Boog for this step-by-step course will teach you how to design, distribute, and

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  E-Book Vendor Aptara Acquired by iEnergizer for $144 Million

  1087 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid E-book conversion and distribution company Aptara was acquired by UK-based business process outsourcing company iEnergizer for $144 million. The move may signal the beginning of vendor consolidation in the U.S. book-technology industry. Aptara will be operated as an independent subsidiary of iEnergizer, a publicly traded company in the

• F+W Acquires Interweave to Bolster Large Craft Publishing Division

  268 readers In a move that fits neatly into F+W Media’s corporate strategy of creating content communities in vertical markets, the company has announced the acquisition today of Aspire Media, parent to Interweave, one of the largest craft-focused media companies in the U.S., from private-equity firms Frontenac Company, Catalyst Investors, and the company’s management team. F+W Media is now