The Digital Publishing Report

Inkling Announces Inkling Habitat

Inkling has announced Inkling Habitat, an online tool for creating and publishing e-books. The company says the tool is intended to enable publishing professionals to collaborate online to create a wide variety of types of e-books include textbooks and novels and publish them in EPUB3 format. more

The Book Industry Study Group Releases Updated Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has announced an update to its policy statement regarding the best practices for identifying digital products for the retail environment. The organization says the impetus for creating the policy statement in 2010 was  to gather a picture of how the United States book supply chain was handling ISBN assignments and to formulate best practice recommendations based on this understanding. The updated policy statement is available for download on the BISG site. more

WoodWing Launches Digital Textbook Publishing Initiative

WoodWing Software has announced the company has launched a new initiative aimed at helping education publishers develop multi-channel publishing systems for textbooks and other educational materials. To aid in accomplishing this goal, WoodWing has created a General Manager Education position to be filled by Steve Schaffran, former Managing Director of WoodWing Latin America. more

Ingram Announces New E-book Lending Model

Ingram Content Group Inc. has announced Access Model, a new content access model to its MyiLibrary e-content platform designed to provide libraries greater flexibility in e-book lending. The company says the new model enables libraries to purchase a set of access credits for an e-book for a set cost and lending period and then lend the e-book simultaneously to multiple patrons. The new model could be used to eliminate the need for patrons to wait to read popular e-book titles. more

Harvard Health Publications and RosettaBooks Announce E-Book Series

RosettaBooks and Harvard Health Publications have released eight original e-books written by physicians on the Harvard Medical School faculty. The e-books are a first for Harvard Health Publications, which publishes a dozen or so print titles each year, and e-book costs $5.99. more

Reader Poll Shows Library Patrons Also Buy Books

A poll of library e-book readers finds they purchase an average of 3.2 books (print and electronic) a month, and a majority would consider purchasing books discovered on a library Web site. They also report their digital content purchases have increased in the past six months. The survey, sponsored by OverDrive and the American Library Association’s Office of Information Technology Policy, is the largest study of library e-book use to date, with more than 75,000 respondents and confirms findings of earlier studies such as the Pew Internet Project’s Libraries, Patrons, and E-books survey. more

Digital Book World and BISG Announce e-Book Market Webinar Series

Digital Book World and BISG will present a three-part Webcast on statistics, trends, and issues in the e-book market in October and November. more

Ebrary Provides Common Core Standards Content e-Books for K-12 Libraries

Ebrary, a ProQuest business, has created a common core standards content of e-books across acquisition models to help K-12 libraries implement a strategic e-book acquisition plan. Ebrary has designed this content to meet three important criteria for strategic acquisition: transition, diversify, and streamline. Its Schools and Educators Complete subscription database has been updated with thousands of new e-books from such publishers as ALA Editions, ASCD, Classroom Complete, and the National Science Teacher Assn. more

Campus eBookstore Links to Ingram Vital Source

Campus eBookstore Inc. has selected the Ingram Vital Source Bookshelf platform to expand its e-textbook service to institutional and retail bookstore customers. Campus eBookstore Inc, a development project owned and operated in Canada and the United States by the Canadian Campus Retail Associates Inc. and Independent College Bookstore Association Inc., was created to provide affordable alternatives and complements to traditional course materials. more

Government Printing Office to Sell e-Books Through Apple

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) announced it will sell Federal e-books though Apple iTunes. The GPO says the current title list includes: Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists are Ripping Off America, On Course to Desert Storm, and the Appendix, Budget of the United States FY 2013. The GPO also makes e-books available in partnership with Google’s, Barnes & Noble, OverDrive, Ingram, Zinio, among other e-book purveyors. more