Yahoo! to sell e-books
Under a new agreement Random House, Penguin Putnam, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, Yahoo! will sell e-books for both the Microsoft Reader and Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader through its site. Launched last week, the site has 1,000 titles and will be adding more each week. "We wanted to reach critical mass, and we feel we've accomplished that through our agreement" with the four publishers. Solomon added that Yahoo! will likely sign up additional publishers before the end of the year", said Rob Solomon , VP and general manager of Yahoo! Shopping. Solomon added that Yahoo! will likely sign up additional publishers before the end of the year. Each listing includes a link to buy other versions of the e-book, including print and audio editions. "We see this as a way to increase sales through all channels," Solomon said. Another attraction of the deal that publishers will get the names of e-book buyers.
The publisher involved said the agreement with Yahoo! was an end run around established e-retailers such as barnesandnoble.com, but both emphasized that their companies are searching for new ways to bring products to consumers.
E-Awards at Frankfurt: IeBAF Sets Short List
Nominations for the second annual International eBook Awards, to be presented in Frankfurt on October 10, are:
For fiction:
Chris Adrian for Gob's Grief (Broadway)
Alan Furst for The Kingdom of Shadows (Random)
Amitav Ghosh for The Glass Palace (Random)
Joyce Carol Oates for Faithless: Tales of Transgression (PerfectBound)
Barbara Schulgasser-Parker for Funny Accent (St. Martin's)
Francois Taillandier for Intrigues (Editions 00h00)
Nonfiction:
Dwight Allen and William H. Cosby Jr. (Bill Cosby) for American Schools:
The $100 Billion Challenge (iPublish.com)
Paul Clayton for Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (Electric eBook Publishing)
George Gilder for Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (Free Press)
Steven Levy for Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government (Penguin Putnam)
David McCullough for John Adams (S&S)
Eric Nisenson for The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece (St. Martin's)
The winner of the Best eBook Technology will be announced at the awards presentation. Submissions for the Best Children's eBook, which will be presented at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in April, are open until December 15.
The awards include two $50,000 authors grand prizes in fiction and nonfiction; two $10,000 distinguished e-book categories; and a $10,000 technical achievement award for "the advancement and implementation of e-book technologies and features."
Director of judges Peter Mollman said that the panel "gave weight to e-books that took
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