http://www.pearson.com/news/2013/july/pearson-2013-half-year-results.html?article=true Ebooks accounted for 33 percent of Penguin’s U.S. revenue in the first half of 2013, parent company Pearson reported Friday, up…
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iPad publisher Inkling nabs $16M and partners with Pearson and Elsevier
iOS publisher Inkling closed a $16 million funding round and has new deals with Pearson and Elsevier.…
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Penguin and Random House have completed their merger, resulting in the world's largest book publisher: Penguin Random House.…
Read MoreText-to-speech startup iSpeech launches publisher platform; Evernote, Pearson first clients
Text-to-speech startup iSpeech is rolling out tools for publishers that let them convert books and articles to audio. The first two clients are Pearson and Evernote.…
Read MorePearson: FT digital subs overtake print; ebooks hit 17% of global sales
Among the highlights from Pearson's 2012 report: Financial Times digital subscriptions surpassed print for the first time, and ebooks accounted for 17 percent of Penguin's global revenues.…
Read MoreDepartment of Justice clears Random House-Penguin merger
The U.S. Department of Justice has approved the proposed merger between Random House and Penguin, though it remains under consideration by international antitrust authorities.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble warns investors to expect more bad Nook news
It's only been a couple of months since Barnes & Noble downgraded guidance for its Nook business. Now the company is doing so again. Unfortunately, Nook Media is supposed to be the profitable part of the company.…
Read MoreInkling makes its Google-friendly digital publishing tools free to everyone
Starting Tuesday, Inkling is making its free digital publishing platform, Habitat, available to everyone. The company is also introducing an enterprise product, with publishers including Pearson and Wolters-Kluwer as launch clients.…
Read MoreiPad publisher Inkling expands to iPhone
In a move aimed primarily at users of its textbooks, iPad publisher Inkling is making all of its titles available for the iPhone. The company's interactive ebook publishing platform, Habitat, now works for iPhone as well.…
Read MorePenguin buys self-publishing service Author Solutions for $116m
Book publisher Penguin is embracing self-publishing with its acquisition of Author Solutions for $116 million. The acquisition lets Penguin "gain skills in customer acquisition and data analytics that will be vital to our future," said Penguin CEO John Makinson in a statement.…
Read MorePaperC auctions itself to fund HTML5 textbooks
German startup PaperC adds a twist to the idea of academic textbooks by letting people purchase a single chapter — or even just a page. Now, in order to raise funding it's not going a traditional route: it's holding a public auction.…
Read MoreInkling will sell iPad textbooks in over 900 college bookstores
iPad textbook publisher Inkling is partnering with college bookstore provider Follett. Starting this fall, Follett will sell hundreds of Inkling titles in its over 900 college bookstores -- including Stanford and UC Berkeley -- and on its website.…
Read MoreThanks To E-Books, Publishers Find Flat Is The New Up
Large book publishers' most recent earnings reports reflect a new normal: Revenues are roughly flat, but profits are up -- in large part due……
Read MorePearson Cooks Up More Content Giveaways Through API Payments
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) plans to let developers re-use more of its varied content, after its latest effort repackaged 2,500 recipes from its coo……
Read MoreThe Economist Hands All Digital Strategy To Its Tablet Chief
The Economist is handing control of its website to its tablet magazines controller, in a bid to unite the previously competitive units.…
Read MorePenguin UK, Economist Partner On E-Singles
Penguin UK and the Economist are partnering on a series of e-singles, "Penguin Economist Specials." The partnership makes sense since Pengui……
Read MoreInterview: FT CEO Denies Sale And Braves Strike Ahead Of Social Launch
Financial Times CEO John Ridding rejects dinner-party chatter that the publisher may be sold to Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters. Instead, he i……
Read MoreFT Digital Subscriptions Surpass Print In U.S. As Sign-Ups Slow
The Financial Times is still signing up new digital subscribers, but at the slowest rate since iPad lit up its business model in mid-2010.…
Read MorePearson Sees Digital Income Beating Print Publishing In 2012
Pearson's digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin's e-book……
Read MoreIndustry Moves: Twitter, Shazam, Pearson, Condé Nast, BBC
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business...…
Read MoreFT Stakes Claim To 2.2 Million Daily Audience
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2m people across the world on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA)……
Read MoreIndustry Moves: Financial Times, Future, O2, Emap, Moo
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business...…
Read MoreWhat Apple Is Wading Into: A Snapshot Of The K-12 Textbook Business
The battle for the college digital textbook market -- including startups like Inkling and Kno -- gets a fair amount of attention. But the K-……
Read MorePearson Made $3 Billion From Digital Content Last Year
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets.…
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