Publishers Lunch broke this news earlier today. The press release, however, has just come across the transom: PRESS RELEASE: Scholastic Names Jenny Frost Senior Vice President, E-Publisher And E-Book Strategy For Scholastic’s E-Commerce Group NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ …

PRESS RELEASE: Digital Book World Introduces the First-Ever Discoverability and Marketing Conference September 24 – 25th, New York NEW YORK – F+W Media, Inc., parent company of Digital Book World, announced today the launch of the first-ever conference dedicated to …

In the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum makes the argument that e-books should cost more than $0.99 (What’s the right price for ebooks?): Marginal costs in the ebooks industry aren’t even really about what it costs to produce a copy. …

PRESS RELEASE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER “P”: Brought to You by the Letter “P”: New Sesame Street App Uses Games and Songs to Help Children Learn About Using the Potty Lincolnwood, IL, May 16, 2012 – Potty training …

PRESS RELEASE: As Christian publishers develop new business models to succeed in today’s digital market, more, including David C Cook, R.H Boyd Publishing, Our Sunday Visitor, Abingdon Press, and Worthy Publishing are selecting Ingram Content Group’s CoreSource® products for the …

PRESS RELEASE: Barnes & Noble.com Tops Customer Satisfaction Survey Barnes & Noble.com Ranked the Number One Online Retailer in Customer Satisfaction in the Book, Music and Video Category and Top 10 Online Retailer Overall in Customer Satisfaction According to ForeSee …

PRESS RELEASE: New E-Book Publisher Aims To Be “World’s Greenest Press” Bitingduck Press, of Altadena, California, wants e-books to help save the environment as well as to serve local businesses. Specializing in electronic formatting of complex content and in quirky …

PRESS RELEASE: There’s Something New at the Zoo! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Popular Mobile App for Preschoolers Curious George® at the Zoo Introduces New “Deep Freeze” Habitat Arctic habitat allows for expanded learning and gaming with everyone’s favorite monkey BOSTON — …

According to 163.com, a Chinese news website, via menafn.com, a Middle-East and North Africa financial news website, Amazon original equipment manufacturers are producing a Kindle Phone. Whether the phone is a prototype or part of a large roll out has …

PRESS RELEASE: New Partnership between Follett and Inkling Gives Students More Access to Interactive Digital Textbooks Follett Higher Education Group Becomes Largest Distributor of Inkling® Products OAK BROOK, Ill., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — This fall, students at colleges and …

PRESS RELEASE: Wiley Partners With Quantum to Deliver Intelligent Adaptive Learning and Assessment Solution For Accounting Education Hoboken, NJ — May 14, 2012 — Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), which provides content and content-enabled …

PRESS RELEASE: Max Sound Corporation To Launch Online Store To Compete For Multi-Billion Dollar Growth Book Market STORYTIME WILL NEVER BE THE SAME! SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Max Sound Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: MAXD), an innovative …

PRESS RELEASE: OPEN ROAD MEDIA TO DIGITALLY PUBLISH THREE GROUNDBREAKING TITLES FROM WRITER, ACTIVIST AND FEMINIST ICON GLORIA STEINEM “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions,” “Moving Beyond Words” and “Revolution from Within” Helped Launch and Transform the Feminist Movement Are Now …

PRESS RELEASE: Amazon.com Announces the Most Well-Read Cities in America Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., top Amazon’s second annual “Most Well-Read Cities in America” list SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May. 15, 2012– Kicking off the summer reading season, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: …

Under UK law, authors are paid a small royalty up to a certain annual amount any time someone checks out one of their print-books from a library. UK authors are now calling on the government to extend the practice to …

PRESS RELEASE: Barnes & Noble NOOK Kids™ Titles Nominated in Best eBook Category at Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards Four out of Five Titles Nominated in eBook Category Are by NOOK Kids New York, New York – May 15, 2012 – …

PRESS RELEASE: INSCRIBE DIGITAL ANNOUNCES NEW DISTRIBUTION DEALS WITH LEADING PUBLISHING HOUSES AND LITERARY AGENCIES New Deals Represent Nearly 6,000 New Titles in Total (SAN FRANCISCO, CA)       INscribe Digital Executive Vice President/General Manager Anne Kubek announced today a new slate …

PRESS RELEASE: TRAJECTORY LAUNCHES CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED – NOW AVAILABLE ON APPLE® IPAD, IPHONE and IPOD TOUCH Over 120 eBooks Now Downloadable From The Apple iBookstore CAMBRIDGE, MA—May 15, 2012— Trajectory, Inc. announced today that the iconic Classics Illustrated comic and …

According to a source Reuters spoke with, Amazon will release a front-lit Kindle e-ink e-reading device to compete with the new Nook Glowlight by July (Amazon aims to launch front-lit Kindle in July: source): Amazon.com Inc will launch new versions …

New details have emerged in the e-book price-fixing lawsuit as more U.S. states join the lawsuit. paidContent.org has the breakdown (As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed): New York, the District of …

PRESS RELEASE: British Kids Read Their e-Books On a Bigger Screen, says New Study from Bowker Laptops dominate devices for the picture book crowd, while tweens kindle an interest in e-readers London, UK – May 14, 2012 – British children …

PRESS RELEASE: NBC PUBLISHING RELEASES ENHANCED EBOOK VERSION OF “OVER THE MOON: THE BROADWAY LULLABY PROJECT” As seen on the “Today” show, this enhanced children’s eBook showcases original lullabies from world-class Broadway composers and performers New York, NY– May 14, …

PRESS RELEASE: Ingram’s VitalSource® simplifies e-textbook integration and adds learning outcome support tools through IMS LTI v1.1 conformance NASHVILLE, TN – As more institutions implement sophisticated online learning programs for faculty and students, Vital Source®, the leading provider of e-textbook …

From paidContent.org (Fox, Ridley Scott nab film rights to self-published sci-fi series): As traditional book publishers are increasingly signing up self-published authors, Hollywood studios are also looking to self-published books for their next blockbuster. Last month, Universal Studios and Focus …

Hollywood movie studios and New York publishers have had a symbiotic relationship that has remained steady. In the e-book era, that relationship could grow, said Mike Shatzkin, publishing industry consultant (and partner with Digital Book World on the Digital Book …

The 95-year-old actor is giving the relatively new medium a try (Actor Kirk Douglas working on e-book): The book includes a foreword by George Clooney. It is being released by Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher that announced the …

Once thought productive, one book a year from a beloved author doesn’t cut it any more for fans whose book consumption has accelerated in the e-book era (Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking): For …

Publishers Lunch has everything you need to know about the HMH bankruptcy proceedings (Houghton Plans Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy and Restructuring to Eliminate Over $3 Billion In Debt): As the company tells employees today in an explanation, “This is positive news. This …