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Category Archives: Fictionwise
Fictionwise now on the Blackberry; celebrational sale
Fictionwise has launched its Blackberry application. The following is from their front page:
As you may know, Fictionwise has its own eBook format called eReader, which uses a popular Social DRM encryption method. Currently, when you buy a Secure eReader eBook at Fictionwise, you already get an automatic 5% Bonus Rebate! We’re excited to announce [...] Continue reading
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Fictionwise: Just five employees, steady growth, platform-neutral approach, 100,000+ monthly unit sales in ‘08
PW’s Calvin Reid has a nice little write-up on Fictionwise—just sold to Barnes and Noble, for $15.8 million, as first reported by TeleRead.
See PW for more on details in the headline. Guess what? The employee count at FW is still the same as in early 2001: five.
Meanwhile co-owner Scott Pendergrast offers an interesting [...] Continue reading
After Fictionwise Buy, B&N Pledges $50 Mil to Get up to 21st Century Digital Speed
Publishers Lunch reports that Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio “is allocating $50 million of its $125 million capital budget this year to retail, IT, the Internet, digital initiatives and other items.” This comes on the heels of its recent acquisition of Fictionwise, the world’s leading deliverer of e-book content. Riggio said his customers are eager to expand their choices beyond “the four walls of our stores.”
RC
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Amazon’s DMCA takedown of KindleID script hints at dark future for Mobipocket format
As I’m lying in my hospital bed, recovering from the surgery on my leg, I came across a story on Amazon’s recent action in asking that Mobileread take down information relating to the Python scripts for putting other vendors’ books on the Kindle. I noticed David Rothman’s piece on it a couple of days ago, [...] Continue reading
Kindle iPhone app review – not from the usual suspects
There have been tons of Kindle app reviews, all by the people whom we all know. I was pleased to get an email from Brad Vertrees about a review he has just written on Brad’s Reader. It does a nice job of covering the app from a new reader’s viewpoint. I’ll be adding his [...] Continue reading
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Barnes & Noble Levels the E-Book Playing Field with Acquisition of Fictionwise
Back in December, after it moved a key executive into the position of Director of Digital Content, we speculated that Barnes & Noble might be contemplating a second assault on the ramparts of the e-book industry. Today the ramparts fell with the news that the retail giant has acquired Fictionwise, the world’s leading e-book retailer for $15.7 million.
With this single stroke, B&N comes roaring back into a business it abandoned in 2003. Of far greater significance is that B&N is now catapulted back onto a competitive footing with amazon.com in the all-important e-book arena. Though Barnes & Noble doesn’t boast a Kindle or any other proprietary e-book reader, there is a host of devices now available or soon to come on stream capable of carrying the immense body of e-book content that Fictionwise has aggregated.
Fictionwise’s multiformat feature enables subscribers to download books in such platforms as Adobe, Palm, Sony, iPhone and even Kindle itself. In January 2008, Fictionwise acquired eReader, the principal Palm-format etailer and reinforced the widely held view that it is the team to beat in the digital book major leagues.
Fictionwise was created in 2000 as a partnership between Steve Pendergrast and his brother Scott’s Mindwise Media, LLC. They subsequently spun Fictionwise off. Starting modestly with digital reprints of science fiction short stories, it was not long before its cutting edge e-book delivery system, brilliant metrics, and author- and fan-friendly business model attracted authors, publishers and other content providers. Today it sells thousands of e-book titles for nearly five hundred publishers including E-Reads. The Pendergasts will continue operating the website for the parent company.
Asked what he thought of the B&N/Fictionwise marriage, one executive pronounced it “Electrifying! It changes everything.”
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Fictionwise acquired by Barnes & Noble
Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble in a stock deal today.
I spoke with Scott Pendergrast of Fictionwise at 7:20 a.m. EST this morning and he told me that all the Fictionwise sites—Fictionwise, eReader and eBookwise—will continue as they currently exist. Fictionwise will still be managed by its current team as an independent [...] Continue reading