By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
The solitary bookcase in Jane Friedman’s SoHo office is half empty. Her home library has 10,000 volumes, she says, but after a 40-year publishing career that saw her rise from being a Dictaphone typist at Random House to chief executive of HarperCollins, she rarely picks up [...]
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Akademos, Inc., a leading provider of integrated online bookstores and marketplaces for educational institutions, announced today that it has launched the Akademos Textbook Adoption Tool, which is the most comprehensive online [...]
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Open Road Integrated Media has teamed with Italian publishing giant Mondadori to digitize, distribute and market English-language e-book versions of titles from Mondadori’s catalogue. Mondadori is Open Road’s first foreign publishing partner and kicks off the company’s international publishing partner program. “Open Road is committed to working with international publishers to [...]
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Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (NYSE: SNI), seeking to enhance the digital video capabilities of its growing lifestyle media businesses, has acquired RealGravity Inc., a California-based company that specializes in online video publishing technologies.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2009, RealGravity [...]
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Vintners’ Alliance, a marketing technology and database provider for super premium wineries, announced that wineries utilizing its Intent Conversion service received, on average, a 14% increase in their October eCommerce sales. Read more.
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Fuel cells have long promised to deliver a cleaner source of power, but they are far from commonplace. But government efforts in recent years to reduce emissions by subsidizing cleaner energy generation are boosting fuel cells’ acceptance and benefiting companies such as ClearEdge Power, which on Tuesday launched two new systems designed to make [...]
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Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of nine titles by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, including novels The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian; poetry collections Revolutionary Petunias, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, and Once; short story collections You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down and In Love & Trouble; and essay [...]
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Blue Bottle is one of the major shrines of the national coffee circuit. The shop at Mint Plaza is small, with big windows. Inside it’s like a mad-scientist’s laboratory whose devices are designed to torture the bean and make it yield its secrets. Read more.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today applauded the commissioning of a combined heat and power (CHP) fuel cell system at Portland Community College in Oregon. The CHP fuel cell system will help Portland Community College save on its energy bills and help achieve its energy efficiency and sustainability goals. Students at the College will [...]
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