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  • Authors and Publishers Argue Over Digital Rights to Older Books - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-12

    • In the case of Mr. Styron, who died in 2006 at age 81, the eight titles his family wants to re-release as e-books were published in print before 1994. This fall, Mr. Styron’s estate reached an agreement with a new company, Open Road Integrated Media, founded by Jane Friedman, the former chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, and Jeffrey Sharp, a film producer.

      In October, Open Road announced that it would produce e-books of Mr. Styron’s work, along with several older titles by Pat Conroy and Iris Murdoch.

    • In fact, Random House on Friday sent a letter to dozens of literary agents, staking out its claim on e-book rights. Markus Dohle, chief executive of Random House, wrote that the company’s older agreements give it “the exclusive right to publish in electronic book publishing formats.”
  • Hybrid Books From Publishers Like Simon and Schuster Add Video and Web Features to Reading - NYTimes.com on 2009-10-01
    • On Thursday, for instance, Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Ernest Hemingway and Stephen King, is working with a multimedia partner to release four “vooks,” which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online or on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
    • In one of the Simon & Schuster vooks, a fitness and diet title, readers can click on videos that show them how to perform the exercises. A beauty book contains videos that demonstrate how to make homemade skin-care potions.
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  • Adobe to Buy Omniture for $1.8 Billion - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-09-16
    • Adobe Systems said Tuesday that it would buy the Web analytics software company Omniture for about $1.8 billion, giving the maker of content-creation software a way to let marketers monitor the effectiveness of such content.
  • Docstoc Adds Document Sales To The Revenue Mix | paidContent on 2009-08-14
    • The DocStore is initially launching with 12 content partners, including Legal Zoom and Podium Notes;
    • Compete stats show that Scribd trumps Docstoc in terms of overall traffic, but Docstoc has upped the ante with the launch of DocStore, an online marketplace where people can buy and sell their documents. Previously, Docstoc only made money by running ads alongside the over 3 million publicly-available documents it had aggregated; this follows the launch of the Scribd store in May.
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  • Shoppers Stick with Brick-and-Mortar for Back-to-School - eMarketer on 2009-08-01

    • The down economy is putting a damper on back-to-school shopping this year, and while consumers may look for savings online, they plan to do most of their purchasing in-store.

      Data from BIGresearch and the National Retail Federation (NRF) indicates that nearly one-half of US consumers with children ages 6 to 17 will be cutting spending on back-to-school items due to the recession.

      With so much emphasis on savings, it is no surprise that nearly three-quarters of consumers plan to shop at discount stores.

    • E-commerce takes a backseat, but cross-channel opportunities remain.
  • Barnes & Noble Launches e-Book Store - 7/20/2009 3:05:00 PM - Publishers Weekly on 2009-07-22
    • Barnes & Noble made its long awaited entrance into the e-book market with an announcement late Monday afternoon of the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks)
    • B&N will offer 700,000 titles at launch, with “many”  new releases and bestsellers priced at $9.99
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  • Bertelsmann and K.K.R. in Music Rights Venture - NYTimes.com on 2009-07-08
  • Random House Audio Targets Florida Drivers - 6/23/2009 7:34:00 AM - Publishers Weekly on 2009-06-24
    • Random House Audio/Listening Library is on a mission to raise awareness of audiobooks around Orlando, Fla. Its Listen Up, Florida! regional summer marketing campaign encourages people to listen to audiobooks during their summer vacation drives.
    • A website, www.listenupfla.com, has clips of featured audiobooks and offers each visitor free downloads
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  • The New York Times > Books > Image > Natural Selections on 2009-06-08
  • Knopf Puts Some Muscle Behind Swedish Thrillers - WSJ.com on 2009-05-28
    • Now, out to capitalize on the growing interest in the late Mr. Larsson, Bertelsmann's Alfred A. Knopf imprint is launching a six-figure marketing effort to support his second book, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," as well as the paperback edition of the first. Mr. Larsson completed a trilogy of mysteries six months before his death in 2004 at age 50.
    • The campaign will include print ads in such publications as the New Yorker, the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, mass-transit advertising in New York, Washington, Boston and Los Angeles and ads on such Web sites as USAToday.com, Politico.com, WSJ.com and NYTimes.com.
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