
Product Launches

During this webinar we will hear from top book publishing experts about the resurgence they are seeing in the book publishing industry.
New York, April 27, 2018 -- Ken Brooks, Bill Kasdorf, Thad McIlroy, Bill Rosenblatt, and Bill Trippe announce the formation of Publishing Technology Partners (pubtechpartners.com), a new consulting partnership that will offer a broad range of experience and expertise from a single source to clients in all segments of the publishing industry and to suppliers…
October 11, 2016 -- Ten Wattpad writers had their publishing dreams come true today with the release of Once Upon Now, an anthology of remixed fairy tales. The book is an exclusive collection of ten new modern tales, each with a fantastical twist. Once Upon Now is on sale now in Target stores and online.…
Penguin Random House Canada announced yesterday the launch of its newest young adult imprint, Penguin Teen. The imprint combines YA titles previously published under the imprints Doubleday Canada Books for Young Readers and Razorbill Canada. Tara Walker, publisher of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers and VP of Penguin Random House Canada, explained the thinking…
Harlequin has added another imprint to its trade program. Graydon House Books, which will focus on commercial women's fiction, will start releasing its first titles in September 2017 and be overseen by Dianne Moggy, v-p, editorial, and Susan Swinwood, executive editor. The imprint's titles will, Harlequin said, focus on titles that feature "a relationship element…
NEW YORK — August 15, 2016 Open Road Integrated Media today introduced new branding for their corporate identity. The logo design embodies the transformation of the growing enterprise, and unites all of the company’s consumer brands under one modern mark. When it launched in 2009, Open Road Integrated Media’s mission was to be an innovative…
The Owl Field is about 3D Audio storytelling. We produce immersive audio dramas that place the listener as the story’s central character, and from a first person perspective, everything happens around the listener in a 3D audio soundscape. Characters, sound effects and music surround the listener just as in the real world. The listener wears…
Scholarly publishing is a technology business. That’s been true for some time, of course. Yet the technology-driven approach to business is profoundly and fundamentally different from traditional publishing practices. How can scholarly publishers reconcile that dichotomy? How should a publisher utilize today’s technology in order to drive innovation? Those were the questions recently put to…
Executives from McGraw-Hill Education will mentor local entrepreneurs as part of a partnership with Boston’s LearnLaunch edtech startup accelerator. “Startups play an important role in the digital ecosystem, and as a ‘125-year-old startup’ ourselves, we feel a kinship with them,” Stephen Laster, chief digital officer of McGraw-Hill Education, said in a news release. McGraw-Hill Education…
While Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo may have caught consumers off-guard when it was first released last year, the retailer has been hard at work adding features to the device to make it more appealing to the least tech-savvy Prime members out there. According to ZDNet, Amazon just took a big leap forward with bibliophiles interested in…