I hesitate to post this now that NaNoWriMo has just wrapped up, but fortunately the submission period doesn’t begin until the end of January, so you’ve got a couple of months to cool down and start rewrites. Anyway: Penguin and Amazon are holding the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest for fiction and young adult [...]
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Penguin and Amazon settle pricing dispute, put books back up for sale on Kindle store
Although the terms haven’t been disclosed, Penguin’s CEO announced yesterday that his company and Amazon have reached an agreement on ebook pricing on the Kindle Store, and that the 150 or so books they’ve kept off the store for the past two months will soon be made available again. Since pretty much nobody buys a [...]
Penguin previews interactive books for Apple's iBook store
Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson gave a presentation in London today where he demonstrated some books/applications–I’m not sure what you’d call them technically–that Penguin plans to sell on the iBook store when the iPad launches later this month. Penguin is doing some pretty inventive stuff with its content, judging by these demos, and I think [...]