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VIZ digital manga debut exclusively at Nook Comics Store for Nook Tablet and Nook Color no comments
Digital manga from VIZ Media, the largest distributer and publisher of anime and manga in North America, are now available exclusively at the Nook Comics Store for the Nook Color and Nook Tablet.
At launch the collection will include 18 series comprised of 107 volumes. Initial titles will include Shojo Beat, Shonen Sunday and the VIZ Signature imports. New issues will be available weekly.
Pinch to zoom is supported and to maintain authenticity the manga are formatted to be read from right to left. Pricing is $4.99 – $9.99.
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Free ebooks for Kindle & other ereaders – 9/18/2011 no comments
Here are more freebies that are available for a limited time at the Kindle Store and elsewhere:
Vook has waved the ‘It’s Free!’ wand at a new set of its nonfiction titles.
Legwork (Casey Jones Mystery Series) by Katy Munger (4 1/2 stars/21 reviews) Mystery. Also free at Kobo.
Deadly Sanctuary (Kendall O’Dell Mystery series) by Sylvia Nobel (4 stars/117 reviews) Mystery. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Accidental Hero by Joshua Graham (4 stars/17 reviews) Suspense. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
The House of Whispers ($.99 Mystery Classics) by William Le Queux (4 1/2 stars/3 reviews) Classic British mystery. Also free at Kobo.
The Man Who Murdered Himself: A Short Story by Nancy Fulda (4 1/2 stars/3 reviews) Short story. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Hostile Witness (legal thriller, thriller) (The Witness Series) by Rebecca Forster (4 1/2 stars/37 reviews). Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Just Another Day in Paradise by Katherine Tomlinson (4 1/2 stars/3 reviews) Short stories. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Committed: A Short Story by N. Primak (4 stars/1 review) Short story. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
French Quarter: Hot in the City, Book 1 by Lacey Alexander (4 1/2 stars/5 reviews) Romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Impulse Control (Talent Chronicles) by Susan Bischoff (5 stars/3 reviews) Short paranormal romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Realms of the Red Rabbit (Realms of the Red Rabbit series, Book 1) by Laura Eno (4 stars/4 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Realms of the Red Rabbit-Jake (Realms of the Red Rabbit series, Book 2) by Laura Eno (5 stars/1 review) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
One Foot in the Grave-A Holiday Short Short Story by J. Steven York (4 stars/1 review) Short fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Song of the Vampire by Carole Gill (5 stars/2 reviews) Short story collection. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Getaway by Sonya Bateman (5 stars/1 review) Short fantasy story. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Immaculate Fetish by Jamie Antonia Symonanis (5 stars/1 review) Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Son of Man by Charles W. Johnson (4 1/2 stars/6 reviews) Religious sect clones Christ. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
I Zombie I by Jack Wallen (4 stars/5 reviews) Zombies. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Zombie Joe and the pogo stick legs by Geltab (5 stars/3 reviews) Short zombie humor. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
A Reluctant Vampire by Carla Krae (4 stars/1 review) Vampires. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Redcoat by David Crookes (4 stars/1 review) Historical fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Everything Soup, Stew, and Chili Cookbook (Everything (Cooking)) by Belinda Hulin (5 stars/4 reviews) Cooking. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
In The Light of You by Nathan Singer (4 1/2 stars/3 reviews) Contemporary fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
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Carnival Comics has a selection of carnival horror themed graphic novels by
Jazan Wild that are currently free for Android devices at the Amazon Appstore for Android and at the Android Market. Some of these are also available in Kindle format, mostly for $0.99. Carnival Comics are also available for iPhone/iPad at iTunes for $0.99.
SmarterComics makes comic book adaptations of bestselling books; books that pertain to business and financial success in particular. These are available at iTunes for iPad/iPhone, and at the Amazon Appstore for Android and the Android Market. Currently two of the titles in the series, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War and Fortune Favors the Bold by Franco Arda (founder of SmarterComics) are free.
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Some paid reading ideas:
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is House Rules by Michael Lawson (4 stars/16 reviews) $0.99 today only. This thriller has shot up to the top of the Kindle bestsellers list thanks to the sale.
Mike Lawson’s Joe DeMarco thrillers have drawn praise for their fine-tuned suspense, off-kilter characters, intricate plots, and revealing portrait of Washington, DC behind closed doors. In House Rules, a terrorist bombing of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel is narrowly avoided. Then a private plane headed straight for the White House ignores warnings and is shot down. An atmosphere of fear and panic overruns the country, and when the junior senator from Virginia proposes to deport all noncitizen Muslims and run extensive background checks on all Muslim Americans, his bill gains surprising traction.
Just Beyond the Clouds: A Novel by Karen Kingsbury (4 1/2 stars/32 reviews) $1.99. This romance was released in 2007, but thanks to a recent appearance as the Kindle Daily Deal it has found its way onto the bestseller list lately. Same price at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
#1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury tells the heart wrenching story of Cody Gunner, a widower fighting for stability, and the woman who wants to help him trust again–even when trust is the most terrifying thing of all.
Still aching over his wife’s death, Cody Gunner can’t bear the thought of also letting go of his Down’s Syndrome brother, Carl Joseph. Cody wants his brother home, where he will be safe and cared for, not out on his own in a world that Cody knows all too well can be heartless and insecure. So when Carl Joseph’s teacher, Elle, begins championing his independence, she finds herself at odds with Cody. But even as these two battle it out, they can’t deny the instinctive connection they share, and Cody faces a crisis of the heart. What if Elle is the one woman who can teach Cody that love is still possible? If Cody can let go of his lingering anger, he might just see that sometimes the brightest hope of all lies just beyond the clouds.
Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories by Michael Connelly (no ratings yet) $2.99. This collection of three Harry Bosch stories will be released on Oct 1 and is currently available for pre-order. Another set of three Harry Bosch stories, Angle of Investigation, will be released on Nov 1. Both of these are priced the same and are available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble.
In "Suicide Run," the apparent suicide of a beautiful young starlet turns out to be much more sinister than it seems. In "Cielo Azul," Bosch is haunted by a long-ago closed case — the murder of a teenage girl who was never identified. As her killer sits on death row, Bosch tries one last time to get the answers he has sought for years. In "One Dollar Jackpot," Bosch works the murder of a professional poker player whose skills have made her more than one enemy.
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo (4 1/2 stars/816 reviews) $1.99. Same price at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Because of Winn-Dixie, a big, ugly, happy dog, 10-year-old Opal learns 10 things about her long-gone mother from her preacher father. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal makes new friends among the somewhat unusual residents of her new hometown, Naomi, Florida. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal begins to find her place in the world and let go of some of the sadness left by her mother’s abandonment seven years earlier.
The Old Man and the Wasteland by Nick Cole (4 1/2 stars/199 reviews) $0.99. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
Forty years after the destruction of civilization…Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man’s most prized possession is Hemingway’s classic ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’ With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a survivor of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse.
The Chronological Man: The Monster in the Mist by Andrew Mayne (5 stars/25 reviews) $0.99.
A Tale of Scientific Adventure…
It’s 1890 and the citizens of Boston are beginning to go missing in the fog.
The police are confounded. The public is frightened. The city is on the edge of hysteria.
It’s up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer, to figure out what’s going on with the help of his assistant, April Malone. They’ll have to face off against a secret society, corrupt policemen and a mad psychologist hell-bent on dissecting Smith, in order to solve the mystery of what’s going on and to save the city from an even more sinister threat.
John Lock has released a new title — Emmett & Gentry (an Emmett Love Western) (5 stars/17 reviews) $0.99. This is the third book in Locke’s western series about Donovan Creed’s ancestors. Also priced the same at Barnes & Noble.
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Graphic.ly releases digital comics app for Android no comments
Graphic.ly has announced a new digital comics app for Android. The new app will work with Android 2.1 and above and is available at the Android Market or at http://graphicly.com/.
From the press release:
This milestone release marks Graphicly’s first entry to the growing and exciting Android marketplace and makes the more than 150 publishers currently available on Graphicly’s other applications available to a whole new audience. Publishers available include Marvel Comics (which is only distributed on Android via Graphicly), Archaia Entertainment, Archie Comics and BOOM! Studios and many others in offering a wide range of comics and graphic novels to the Android community.
“Like our community, we are firm believers in the explosion of the Android market,” said Micah Baldwin, CEO of Graphicly. “Being the first to provide Marvel Comics on the Android platform is a perfect example of that belief. This application is only the beginning of the expansion of our relationship with Google, which began as a launch partner with the Chrome Application Store.”
The new application features a full storefront from which users can purchase comics, as well as the ability to sync with their current Graphicly comics library (containing comics purchased from Graphicly’s desktop, Web or iOS apps), giving users ultimate freedom to read their comics anywhere on any device. To optimize reading for the handheld devices’ form factor, the application will support ‘Graphicly View’ (a panel-by-panel reading experience) as well as full-page and pinch-to-zoom modes. Further, comic books can be both streamed and downloaded to users’ phones to ensure reading regardless of users’ connectivity. In addition to buying and reading comics, the Graphicly community is connected through a vibrant social stream, allowing for users to share their activities with friends and find what books are most popular.
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OverDrive adds Liquid Comics to catalogue 1 comment
OverDrive announced on its blog today that it has 
added over 150 titles from Liquid Comics to its US catalogue. These titles will be available to US libraries that use OverDrive’s Maximum Access plan.
Liquid Comics creators include Nicholas Cage, Ed Burns, Guy Rithie, and Deepak Chopra. The collection features newly released The Econauts, which follows a group of gifted teens who fight crimes against the government. There’s also John Woo’s Seven Brothers, a series set in modern day Los Angeles were seven men have nothing in common but their destinies. Titles vary by age, most in the 12+ age audience.
Liquid Comics, formerly known as Virgin Comics, was founded in 2006 by Sir Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra and others. Many, but not all of its titles are based on Indian culture.
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eReader & Tablet News – 9/16/2010 no comments
Just catching up on a few short items:
About three weeks ago The Sharper Image Literati ereader was announced. The new ebook reader made an appearance at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular in Manhattan yesterday and PC Magazine got a hands-on.
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Intel launched its AppUp app store at IDF 2010 in San Francisco. This is an app store with content designed for netbooks. Consumers can install the AppUp client on multiple devices where it will keep track of their app purchases and allow installation of purchased apps on multiple devices. One interesting app that will be included in the store is the Barnes & Noble NOOK ereading app.
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HTC Sense mobile phones will be including an ereading application and a “powered by Kobo” ebookstore. The ebookstore will be available globally. The first phone to come with the Kobo shopping experience will be the HD Desire HD.
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Amazon has apparently caught up with the Kindle 3 orders — Both the Wi-Fi only and the Wi-Fi + 3G models are now in stock.
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WOWIO has built a new online reader designed specifically for the iPad and the Safari browser. Now you can enjoy graphic novels from WOWIO on your iPad without having to download PDF files. For details see the WOWIO blog or fire up the browser on your iPad and go to wowio.com.
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eReader & iPad News – 7/25/2010 1 comment
The announcement last week by the Wylie Agency of its Odyssey Editions and the exclusive distribution of content through the Kindle Store may have made Kindlers happy, but the move has resulted in a firestorm of protest from other publishers.
The main points of contention are that:
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Competition: Wylie will now be competing with other publishers.
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Possible conflict of interest: Wylie is a literary agent; being a publisher at the same time could result in conflicts of interest.
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Content is restricted to the Kindle Store rather than being device agnostic. This is less of an issue for readers now that the Kindle reading applications are available on many platforms, but it is of course an issue for Amazon’s competitors.
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Disputes over ebook rights: Older contracts between authors and publishers (such as those governing the titles released by Odyssey Editions) were made before ebooks were around. The authors of the Odyssey ebooks had pbook contracts with other publishers. Whether or not these older contracts also apply to ebooks is still unsettled and is probably the major reason we don’t have more backlist and out-of-print books published digitally.
Random House, which usually seems to have a relatively progressive approach to ebooks, questioned Amazon’s legal right to sell the Odyssey titles. Random House also says that as Wylie is now a publisher and therefore a competitor they will not conduct any new English-language business with Wylie on a worldwide basis.
There is a possibility that the Odyssey Editions may end up being pulled from the Kindle Store. As an avid reader, and since ebooks are my delivery method of choice, I want to see all of the backlists and out-of-print and hard-to-find titles available for me to buy and read. At the very least, Wylie has put the issue of ebook rights of these older books on the front burner. Most publishers do not seem to be much interested in doing this, even though digitizing their backlists and out-of-print books would be a way for publishers to monetize these titles and better serve their customers.
For further reading see: the Guardian – here and here, John Sargent at the Macmillan Blog and Konrath at A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing.
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Arrow Publications, LLC, which is the publisher of MyRomanceStory.com, has announced that their romance graphic novels will soon be available through LongBox, Inc.
LongBox will provide comics and graphic novels to readers on computers, ereaders, gaming systems and other handheld devices via its forthcoming LongBox Digital ereading application. Currently LongBox appears to still be in beta, but should be open for business soon.
Graphic novels from Arrow can currently be read on your computer and iDevices and are available from the above link and at iTunes.
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The iPad continues its takeover of the educational market. XanEdu, which claims to be the leading faculty-preferred provider of CoursePacks and custom textbooks, has launched an iPad publishing application.
Instructors will use the XanEdu CoursePack Management System to publish materials that students will then be able to access on an iPad. This capability is in addition to being fully integrated into popular learning management systems on campus. XanEdu’s iPad platform also enables students to take and share notes for a more collaborative, engaging learning experience.
“XanEdu, as the largest independent provider of Harvard Business Publishing material is a trusted partner and consistent innovator,” said Maureen Bestes, VP of Higher Education of Harvard Business Publishing. “In the fall, we’re launching interactive spreadsheets for financials cases with XanEdu.
XanEdu publishes over 15,000 titles annually at over 2,000 institutions and is the largest provider of custom coursepacks in North America.
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New Graphic Novel Publisher to Focus on Bringing Content to Tablets; Square Enix to Launch Digital Manga Store in North America and France 1 comment
Luminous Books LLC is a new company that will be creating content for the iPad and other tablets. From the press release:
Luminous Books LLC, a newly formed company which will be delivering highly curated, rich-media content and periodicals to the tablet PC market, today announced that Andrew Cosby will be one of the first writer/producers to collaborate with the company on original content. The company chose to announce the collaboration prior to this year’s Comic-Con convention, because of Cosby’s highly successful work as the co-creator of Boom Comics and the Eureka Television series on the Syfy Channel.
"What Luminous is doing is incredibly exciting and fundamentally different from the other stuff I’ve seen in this category," stated Andrew Cosby. "It’s the main reason I decided to work with them. I’m all about breaking new ground, and they’ve developed an imaginative new approach to the medium, one that I’m convinced will allow us to capitalize on the truly transformative nature of these devices. Using the iPad and similar tablet devices, we will be collaborating on products which will engage parents and kids like never before. We’re talking about an evolutionary step forward in children’s media, and I’m excited to be part of it."
Luminous Books will be publishing graphic novels, comics, children’s books and other material. Initially the company will be focusing on the 8-12 year old market. The company does not appear to have a website as of yet.
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Square Enix announced yesterday that will be launching a digital manga store for North America and France this fall. From the press release:
Square Enix currently releases manga titles in 20 countries overseas through partnerships with local publishers. Series in circulation include Fullmetal Alchemist, with cumulative foreign shipments now surpassing 10 million units, as well as others that continue to garner worldwide acclaim, such as Soul Eater and Black Butler(TM).
Given the increasing popularity of electronic reading formats, Square Enix has decided to take advantage of the online distribution infrastructure originally developed for its games business, along with the company’s existing payment system and online fan communities in order to establish a paid digital distribution channel to better serve the varied needs of its global customers. Square Enix will continue to work with its existing regional publishing licensees to promote both electronic and print versions of titles, while aiming to deter piracy by establishing an official web-based distribution source.
Square Enix is offering free sample chapters of Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, Soul Eater by Atsushi Ohkubo, Black Butler by Yana Toboso and O-Parts Hunter by Seishi Kishimoto at its North American and French websites.
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