One iOS ebook publisher snaps up another: SF’s Inkling acquires NYC’s Open Air
The San Francisco-based iOS publishing platform Inkling has acquired Open Air Publishing, a New York-based publisher of iOS how-to books.
iPad publisher Inkling nabs $16M and partners with Pearson and Elsevier
iOS publisher Inkling closed a $16 million funding round and has new deals with Pearson and Elsevier.
Inkling makes its Google-friendly digital publishing tools free to everyone
Starting Tuesday, Inkling is making its free digital publishing platform, Habitat, available to everyone. The company is also introducing an enterprise product, with publishers including Pearson and Wolters-Kluwer as launch clients.
To fight Amazon’s “black box,” iPad publisher Inkling opens its 400 ebooks up to Google
In an effort to aid book discovery and battle Amazon’s dominance, iOS publishing platform Inkling will allow its roughly 400 ebooks to be fully indexed through Google search. The company plans to add a thousand more books this year.
Google acquires Frommer’s Travel Guides from Wiley
Google is acquiring Frommer’s Travel Guides from publisher John Wiley & Sons for a reported price of $23 million. Wiley has been seeking to sell the brand off since the spring.
iPad publisher Inkling expands to iPhone
In a move aimed primarily at users of its textbooks, iPad publisher Inkling is making all of its titles available for the iPhone. The company’s interactive ebook publishing platform, Habitat, now works for iPhone as well.
PaperC auctions itself to fund HTML5 textbooks
German startup PaperC adds a twist to the idea of academic textbooks by letting people purchase a single chapter — or even just a page. Now, in order to raise funding it’s not going a traditional route: it’s holding a public auction.
Felicis Ventures raises a new $70 million seed fund
Felicis Ventures, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based venture fund started by early Google employee Aydin Senkut has raised a new $70 million fund. The investment group is well known for its investments in Angry Birds’ parent, Inkling and Shopify. This is their second institutional seed fund.
iPad textbook publisher Inkling adds HTML5-based Web platform
iPad textbook publisher Inkling is making all of its titles available on the Web through an HTML5-based platform.
Inkling will sell iPad textbooks in over 900 college bookstores
iPad textbook publisher Inkling is partnering with college bookstore provider Follett. Starting this fall, Follett will sell hundreds of Inkling titles in its over 900 college bookstores — including Stanford and UC Berkeley — and on its website.