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Harvardwood ebooks to start up with books published as apps for the iPad

Received the following press release:

Harvardwood is a unique organization of more than 2,500 Harvard alumni,
students, faculty and staff in Hollywood, the media and entertainment
worlds, and the arts. In collaboration with Unlimited Publishing LLC,
Harvardwood is proud to announce an exciting new program to publish e-Books
for the iPad, iPhone, iTouch and other smartphones by its members: [...]

Things we don’t know about digital publishing

In the first of a series of articles Michael Bhaskar discusses the state of digital commentary. It’s a really good read and makes a lot of sense. It’s about time somebody took on the commentators who are speaking from a platform of ignorance.

… While there is a lot of good commentary, much of [...]

Interviews with Wharton School of Business professors in the iPad and NY Times

From the Wharton website:

Two recent events have rocked the publishing world. First, The New York Times, which many regard as the newspaper of record in the U.S., said it would abandon the practice of providing free online content and start charging regular readers beginning in 2011. And second, Apple’s much-hyped tablet — the iPad — [...]

…. and publishers think that Apple will be their saviour

Download Squad is reporting that an Apple threatened to remove an iPhone application because it contained a mention, in it’s description, that the app was also a finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge. For the app to remain available in the store the developer had to remove any reference to “Android”.

Now I wonder [...]

Full text of new Macmillan ad in Publishers Lunch

And now on to royalties. Three or four weeks ago, we began discussions with the Author’s Guild on their concerns about our new royalty terms. We indicated then that we would be flexible and that we were prepared to move to a higher rate for digital books. In ongoing discussions with our major agents at [...]

Macmillan gets standing ovation at ABS conference

According to the several sources, Macmillan received a standing ovation. Shelf Awareness reports:

“And special thanks and a show of support to the Macmillan companies in the face of bullying tactics by one of our largest competitors.”–Michael Tucker, head of Books Inc. and president of the American Booksellers Association, speaking yesterday at the opening of [...]

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