Summary: ‘Sesame Street’ unveiled its e-bookstore‎; Barnes & Noble launched ‘PubIt’, a self-publishing platform

• Sesame Street has opened its e-book library for a flat yearly fee. For $40 per year, parents have unlimited access to “more than 100 Sesame Street eBooks.”
• Barnes & Noble announced PubIt!, an “easy” digital publishing and distribution platform for independent authors. Publishers left out of the game…
• Acer to launch its own tablet with a 7-inch screen and a physical keyboard, similar to Amazon’s Kindle
• Sony to challenge Apple in Japan with a new e-reader. No tech specs or other details were revealed.
• Book publishers look forward to the massive adoption of the iPad. A news business model for that industry?

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