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Y Books Promote Digital First With The Healing Code

December 9, 2011 – 8:00 am

Independent publisher, Y Books is to launch an ebook only edition of Dermot O’Connor’s The Healing Code in January 2012.

It will be the first time the bestselling book will be available as an eBook. The book was originally published by Hachette.

In the book O’Connor, who was diagnosed with a severe form of multiple sclerosis, explores how he resolved to heal himself and how eight years after diagnosis, Dermot is in the best physical and mental health of his life.

The digital move comes on the back of Y Books being the first domestic publisher to have its titles listed on the new Irish iBookstore after Apple launched the service at the end of September. These included Mick McCaffery’s The Irish Scissor Sisters and Cocaine Wars.

Speaking at the time Chenile Keogh, Managing Director/Publisher at Y Books, said, ‘This is a very exciting move for Y Books. As a young and innovative publisher we wanted to take advantage of the opportunities that advances in technology offer us. We are proud to be the first Irish publisher to have our full list available through iBooks Ireland just days after its launch, our titles are also available through the iBooks international stores.’

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Briefly Noted | Digital publishing | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub – Industry analysis – FT.com

August 8, 2011 – 8:12 am

It looks like back-to-school shopping has hit venture capitalists and Facebook this week. The social networking company announced an intriguing acquisition of digital book publisher Push Pop Press. Meanwhile, Inkling, which has a publishing platform for putting textbooks on the iPad, raised a new round of funding.

Facebook’s acquisition prompted a wave of speculation in the blogosphere. Push Pop stated on its blog that Facebook “isn’t planning to start publishing digital books.” However, both the New York Times’ Bits blog and PCWorld speculated that there could be an opportunity.

via Story of the week: Digital publishing | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub – Industry analysis – FT.com.

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Briefly Noted | Cherish the Book Publishers—You'll Miss Them When They're Gone | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten – WSJ.com

July 1, 2011 – 8:40 am

It’s only natural for those locked out to despise the gatekeepers, but what about those of us in the reading public? Shouldn’t we be grateful that it’s someone else’s job to weed out the inane, the insipid, the incompetent? Not that they always do such a great job of it, given some of the books that do get published by actual publishers. But at least they provide some buffer between us and the many aspiring authors who are like the wannabe pop stars in the opening weeks of each “American Idol” season: How many instant novelists are as deluded as the singers who make with the strangled-cat noises believing they have Arethaen pipes?

via Cherish the Book Publishers—You’ll Miss Them When They’re Gone | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten – WSJ.com.

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Are publishers ignoring the goldrush? Declan Burke In The Irish Times

April 20, 2011 – 8:23 am

Interesting piece by Declan Burke on ebooks and publishing. Brings to mind some of the pieces by Catherine Ryan Howard over the last few months on her success. Trend or trivial?

It’s not just the royalties that will have to change, however. Leather believes that a genuine revolution in publishing is underway. “Publishers will also have to take back the role that they relinquished to agents over the years,” he says, “and start to look for new talent again. In America, Amanda Hocking has gone from selling more than a million self-published vampire and zombie ebooks to signing a $2 million deal with a leading publisher. I think the smart publishers will all now be looking for the next Amanda Hocking. And the best place for that is to take a look at the ebook bestseller list.

“I think it’s going to be a long time before we see the back of paper books. But there’s no doubt that within the next few years we’ll see ebook sales overtake the sales of conventional books. The big question is whether or not the traditional publishing industry is going to be able to adapt to the new markets. I think they will, but I think the transition is going to be painful.”

via Are publishers ignoring the goldrush? – The Irish Times – Wed, Apr 20, 2011.

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Cork University Press Signs Up To Ebook Platform

April 20, 2011 – 7:53 am

Cork University Press has signed a deal to join the University Press Contents Consortium (UPCC) an academic digital publishing and reading platform for the worldwide library community.

The UPCC will be run by project MUSE, which is the leading e-journal in the humanities and social sciences.

The UPCC will launch in January 2012.

The platform will make e-books from over 50 university presses and non-profit scholarly presses — representing as many as 30,000 frontlist and backlist titles — available in an online environment along with content from nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE.

The initiative will adopt a collection-based pricing model which is decoupled from print pricing. The UPCC value-based collection list price will be based on an average price per title and will be determined by market-driven factors such as collection size and library budgets.

According to Cork University Press, ‘the feedback from the library market has been overwhelmingly positive. The goal is to deliver the largest collection of high quality university press e-books to the widest possible audience. In this age of shrinking library budgets, the market research revealed that libraries would object to purchasing the same e-books multiple times in various collections and aggregations.’

 

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Briefly Noted | Public Libraries Take On E-Books – Peter Osnos – Culture – The Atlantic

March 30, 2011 – 10:26 am

What seemed a relatively smooth process of expansion at that pace was upended when HarperCollins, publisher of Elmore Leonard, Joyce Carol Oates, Sarah Palin, and scores of other notables, disclosed that, going forward, its e-books would expire after the book was loaned out 26 times, and libraries would need to make another purchase. Until now, the assumption and the practice was that, once a digital book was purchased, it would be there in perpetuity. Librarians were outraged, and boycotts of HarperCollins (including in the most extreme cases their print and audio books also) were imposed in a number of systems. Julie Bosman provided a thorough recap of the dispute in the New York Times. On a local level, the Omaha World Herald added grassroots details. The Nebraska Library Commission’s 64 members were among those supporting an immediate boycott. David Mixdorf, director of the South Sioux City Library, said his board had ordered that no further acquisitions of any kind be made from HarperCollins. “We have to draw the line somewhere on our budget,” he told the newspaper. “This hits us pretty hard at a time when our budget seems to be constantly shrinking.”

via Public Libraries Take On E-Books – Peter Osnos – Culture – The Atlantic.

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Briefly Noted | UK trade publishers predict 2012 will be revenue tipping point for e-books

March 24, 2011 – 7:51 am

Jane Tappuni says, “If 2010 has been acknowledged as the year the e-book finally became a mass market reality, then it seems that 2012 will be the year e-books start making a significant impact on UK trade publishers incomes. This is exciting as publishers have been investing huge amounts in digital publishing. I think we’ll increasingly see a divide between publishers who have embraced digital products and those that haven’t. These figures show that everyone needs to sit up and take notice to ensure that publishing houses are at the forefront of digital innovation.”

via UK trade publishers predict 2012 will be revenue tipping point for e-books.

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Briefly Noted | The Electronic Publishing Bingo Card « Whatever

March 21, 2011 – 7:12 am

For those of you unfamiliar with the “Bingo Card” concept, basically, if you see one or more of your favorite arguments for how ZOMG EPUBBING WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR EVAR on the bingo card, you can be assured that your argument is not, in fact, anywhere as good or original as you might think it is. You might wish to cultivate new ones, or at least learn why your favorite argument isn’t always super-mega-ultra-convincing to those of us who have to think about this stuff as it regards our professional lives.

via The Electronic Publishing Bingo Card « Whatever.

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YBooks Releases Its First Ebook

December 16, 2010 – 6:50 pm

Just weeks after releasing their first print title, Donal MacIntyre’s Hitmen, Gangsters, Cannibals and Me, YBooks has released the title as its first ebook.

The book is available through a wide selection of ebook retailers including Amazon, Kobo, ebooksdirect and The Book Depository.

In a statement today Chenile Keogh, MD of YBooks said. ‘We are very excited to release our first venture into the electronic market and will be publishing Boiling Point, Adventures in the Restaurant Game by Nick Munier with Esther McCarthy and Paperboy by Tony Macaulay in the coming weeks.’

YBooks was formed by Keogh and Robert Doran after Merlin ceased trading earlier this year.

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Briefly Noted | Amazon to Unveil New Kindle Web App Tomorrow

December 7, 2010 – 8:48 am

An Amazon rep said in an email to ComputerWorld that the new version of the web app is intended to “enable users to read full books in the browser and any website to become a bookstore offering Kindle books” — exactly what Google E-books aims to do with its own platform. The previous version of Kindle for Web, as the app is properly called, was not nearly as noteworthy, allowing users to read only first-chapter previews of books online.

via Amazon to Unveil New Kindle Web App Tomorrow.

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