In an aggressive expansion into children's publishing, Amazon has acquired over 450 children's titles originally published by Marshall Cavendish. The deal will bring a children's category into the fold at Amazon Publishing, where, up until now, genre units, in categories like mystery and romance, have been built exclusively around adult titles. Amazon, at press time, had not announced the name of a specific children's imprint at its publishing operation, or who might head that imprint which will be part of Amazon Publishing's East Coast Group headed by Larry Kirshbaum.
Publishers Weekly
tirsdag 6. desember 2011
Apple granskes for e-bokmonopol
EU-kommisjonen sier i en pressemelding at de har åpnet en formell granskning rundt salg av e-bøker.
Granskningen er rettet mot Apple og mot fem forlag: franske Hachette, amerikanske Harper Collins og Simon & Schuster, britiske Penguin og tyske Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck. Foranledningen er mistanke om konkurransevridende praksis i salg av e-bøker i EØS-området, i strid med EUs antitrustlover.
Kilde: Digi.no
Granskningen er rettet mot Apple og mot fem forlag: franske Hachette, amerikanske Harper Collins og Simon & Schuster, britiske Penguin og tyske Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck. Foranledningen er mistanke om konkurransevridende praksis i salg av e-bøker i EØS-området, i strid med EUs antitrustlover.
Kilde: Digi.no
torsdag 1. desember 2011
For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper
torsdag 1. desember 2011
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Here is a question for a digital-era debate: is anything lost by taking a picture book and converting it to an e-book? Junko Yokota, a professor and director of the Center for Teaching Through Children’s Books at National Louis University in Chicago, thinks the answer is yes, because the shape and size of the book are often part of the reading experience. Wider pages might be used to convey broad landscapes, or a taller format might be chosen for stories about skyscrapers.
Size and shape “become part of the emotional experience, the intellectual experience. There’s a lot you can’t standardize and stick into an electronic format,” said Ms. Yokota, who has lectured on how to decide when a child’s book is best suited for digital or print format.
Publishers say they are gradually increasing the number of print picture books that they are converting to digital format, even though it is time-consuming and expensive, and developers have been busy creating interactive children’s book apps.
While the entry of new tablet devices from Barnes & Noble and Amazon this fall is expected to increase the demand for children’s e-books, several publishers said they suspected that many parents would still prefer the print versions.
NYTimes.com
Size and shape “become part of the emotional experience, the intellectual experience. There’s a lot you can’t standardize and stick into an electronic format,” said Ms. Yokota, who has lectured on how to decide when a child’s book is best suited for digital or print format.
Publishers say they are gradually increasing the number of print picture books that they are converting to digital format, even though it is time-consuming and expensive, and developers have been busy creating interactive children’s book apps.
While the entry of new tablet devices from Barnes & Noble and Amazon this fall is expected to increase the demand for children’s e-books, several publishers said they suspected that many parents would still prefer the print versions.
NYTimes.com
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