On Thursday, November 10th 2011 we arrange an informative event for and with our labels within the scope of a "Digital Day". Here we give the participants the opportunity to adept important news and information in the IT- and marketing section and get an insight into our internal processes. Questions and problems will be discussed in detail and as special guests their will be two colleagues from Simfy, who will present their service and the opportunities of streaming services in detail.

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The eBookCamp Hamburg will take place on November 5th and it's idea is to show the widespread acceptance of the medium eBook meanwhile. Issues and problem areas will be elucidated and appropriate solutions are developed through exchanges, joint brooding and creative interaction.
Within the scope of the camp the interesting workshop "Publishers in digital spheres - requirements and perspectives" takes place. Maike Prehn (Kontor New Media) will present the special requirements of the publishers in the digital business. Next to important discussions about  licencing righs, pricing and negotiation of terms, the issue of technical requirements and the piracy will be also a topic. It seems natural to compare this branch with the music industry for elaborating opportunities and prospects for the book trading segment.

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Meet us at the The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) on October, 19th till 22nd. The ADE is the leading electronic music conference and the world's biggest club festival for electronic music. The event offers a unique blend of daytime conferences, including interactive workshops, technical demonstrations and in-depth round-table discussions, alongside a nighttime music festival which takes place in 52 venues around the city. The annual event attracts 3,000 business professionals and 130,000 festival visitors from all around the globe. We looking forward to see some of you there!

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Maike Prehn joined Kontor New Media on September 15th as the new contact person for book publishers. She oversees the development of the eBook segment. Maike has wide experience in the publishing business due to her prior occupations as a bookseller, Foreign Rights manager at Hoffmann und Campe publishers, customer service agent and travelling saleswoman at the book wholesaler Libri, and scientific author.

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Some of our artists can boast of awesome chart results this week: After DJ Antoine entered successfully the Top Ten last week, the cult-rocker from J.B.O. imitate him as their new record "Killeralbum" hit directly  # 3 of the German Longplaycharts.
Also Matt Gonzo had a great week too and entered #17 with his solo album "Blitz&Donner" and the band  "Unantastbar" enjoya a fantastic  #33 for their album "Schuldig".
Furthermore, last weeks chart positions of the German trend charts are pretty impressive, too! Mike Candys & Evelyn's hit-single "One Night In Ibiza" became #12, the album "Antirockstars" by Betontod is currently on #12 of the album trend charts and last but no least, Nils Landgren's new Jazz record "The Moon, The Stars And You"  entered  #38.

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"Welcome To St. Tropez" by DJ Antoine and the Russian star rapper Timati reached gold status in Germany. With more than 1.1 million records sold DJ Antoine is the most successful international DJ ever to emerge from Switzerland.  In a successful collaboration with Kontor Records he succeeded to conquer the German market.  
As well the single "Hello" by French DJ and producer Martin Solveig reached Platinum status. Since October 2010 the track is constantly present in the top 100 singles and is still on #5 of the German single charts until now!

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From now on iTunes customers can pre-listen to 90 seconds of a music track before purchase (but only if the song is not shorter than 2:30 minutes). This was only possible in the US before, but now it is available in almost every iTunes store worldwide. The only exception is Germany, as there is no agreement with the GEMA fixed yet. We will keep you up to date.

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Finally: Six months after release, DJ Antoine's hit "Welcome To St. Tropez" (together with rapper Timati) climbed to the top of the German iTunes charts! The single is a little pretaste for the upcoming album "Welcome To DJ Antoine", which will be released on August 12th.

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The waiting has come to an end: After more than a year of proceedigs with the major records companies, our partner Spotify is successfully launched in the U.S. on July, 14th.

From the beginning the U.S. launch had the highest priority for the company. The service, which is so far only available in its home country Sweden as well as Finland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain, is currently used by around ten million music lovers. With the U.S. launch Spotify lead of the fight against the competitive from Google Music, icloud by Apple and Amazon's music-streaming service.

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On July 1st Christian Frahm joined the team of Kontor New Media as label manager. After studying applied cultural sciences (musicology and business administration), he worked as a product manager at Sony BMG in Munich, starting in 2004. In October 2006 he joined the Lighthouse distribution. Together with his colleagues, Christian Frahm founded the independent DVD label SAD Home Entertainment GmbH in March 2008.
At Kontor New Media, Christian will now take care of the Edel Germany repertoire divisions and other partners, especially in the fields of jazz and classical music.

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Interessting news for all book lovers: Apple's iBookstore is now on iTunes - available for PC and Mac. By the way, the book "Die 100 besten Fußball-Sprüche" (The 100 Best Soccer Quotes), which is distributed by us, is the current number one in the German charts for free books.

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In time for the launch of our new data base system we have some interessting facts. At the moment we store about 720,00 tracks for our partner labels, which are on more than 100,000 products. The current storage has a size of 35 Terabytes. That's a playtime of more than 66 years of music in CD quality.

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We are very happy to release a new data base system for our label partners. Next to a faster performance, a quicker scan of data and an optimized upload function, the system also offers a much better search functionality and of course a new contemporary optic. Our labels will then have a really strong and comfortable tool to act in the digital business.

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This weekend the 56th Eurovision Songcontest will take place in Düsseldorf. The official motto this year is "Feel your heart beat!" The young singer-songwriter Anna Rossinelli has qualified for the finals on Tuesday and starts for Switzerland with her great song "In Love For A While". The song was releaseed by her label das office and is distributed by Kontor New Media. We keep our fingers crossed for this young talented artist!

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The E-Book "Märchenhaft GEIL - Männer sind Frösche", written by Owen Benjamin Parker and Emerson Marie Parker, is #1 of the general charts on the German iBookstore! The E-Book was releasend at the end of March by our distribution partner Satzweiss.com - Chichili Agency. The humorous story is about the everyday life of three girlfriends who are searching for their "frog kings". We are pleased about our first number 1 position in the E-book section!

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The German Phono Academy, the cultural institute of the federal association of the music industry recently announced the winners of the Echo Jazz 2011!

This year, five artists of our distribution label ACT are going to receive the Echo, Germany's most important music award. The album "LIVE at JazzBaltica" receives the Echo in two categories: Ensemble of the Year national for the band Wollny, Kruse, Schaefer and Drummer of the Year national for Eric Schaefer. A big surprise and at the same time well deserved is the Echo for the Korean singer Youn Sun Nah in the category Female Vocalist international. The award as Saxophonist of the Year national is presented to Heinz Sauer and his album "If (Blue) Then (Blue)". The Echo Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award goes to the brothers Joachim and Rolf Kühn.

The official award ceremony takes place on June 17th 2011 at the Gläserne Manufaktur of Volkswagen in Dresden. Congratulations to the lucky winners and ACT! 

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Kontor New Media has a new music service in its distribution network: Beyond Oblivion. The company was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York City (Headquarters), Silicon Valley, Salt Lake City and London.

They have developed a Music Service which monetizes every music content played on their player - even ripped and shared files! They charge a license fee per music-capable device (computer, smartphone etc. - only one player per device) and pay content owners a micro-royalty per play on those devices, whether or not the song-files were legally or illegally downloaded.

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It goes forward and Kontor New Media expands its list of distribution partners and welcomes the label Snapper Music! The label started in 1996 and is based in London. In their great artist roster you will find legendary bands such as WASP, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Ozric Tentacles, Cradle of Filth, Fish, Happy Mondays, Garry Glitter, 3 Colours Red, Solomon Burke and Amen. As well as having its own imprint, Snapper Music distributes several sub-labels with different music genres: Peaceville (Metal), Kscope (Post Progressive), Charly (RnB, Jazz, Progressive and Blues music).

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Kontor New Media and the Australian company Valleyarm join forces. Valleyarm is Asia Pacifics leading digital distributor, publisher and marketer of independent music and video content. They will distribute the content from Kontor New Media in the entire Asian and Pacific market. This allows us to enable our labels to sell their products in stores such as Maxis (Malaysia), Singtel (Singapore), Starhub (Singapore), China Mobile (China), MELON (South Korea) and Bigpond (Australia).

We are excited about this new partnership!

www.valleyarm.com

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We look forward to offer two high-class eBooks from our new partner, the Zabert Sandmann publisher! They belong to the leading publishers in Germany in the areas of cooking, health and wine.
The celebrity chef Alfons Schuhbeck granted his readers a look into his very own kitchen and accumulated knowledge in his book "Meine Küchengeheimnisse". In addition, the celebrity chef Cornelia Poletto from Hamburg reveals all sorts of secrets of the professional kitchen in her book "Polettos Kochschule. Mein neuer Grundkurs für Einsteiger". Popular classics will be revamped and recreated with helpful tricks and tips.
Both books are available for iPad and iPhone in the iBookstore!

www.zs-verlag.com

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We are very proud to announce that "Hello", the successful single from Martin Solveig, is nominated in two categories at the 26th Annual International Dance Music Awards (IDMA). Also nominated are two another artists from Kontor Records/Napith Music, Tim Berg and Riva Starr! The Award will be announced and awarded at the Winter Music Conference in Miami. We are exited and cross our fingers for these great artists!

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Keith Jarretts album "The Köln Concert" is the recording of an improvisational solo concert at the Cologne Opera on 24th January 1975. It is the best selling and best-known release by Keith Jarrett, also the best-selling jazz solo album and the best-selling piano solo album ever.
"The Köln Concert" was just selected to be in the Grammy Hall of Fame as one of the most important records in history. Kontor New Media congratulates Keith Jarret and ECM to this sensational success!

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Kontor New Media welcomes a new partner, the film production company corazón international, and looks forward to a great and successful cooperation. An appropriate deal was recently selead by the managing directora of corazón Fatih Akin and Klaus Maeck with the Kontor New Media-Team of Michael Pohl. At first, Kontor New Media takes over the distribution and marketing of the three corazón-movies "Soul Kitchen", "Auf der anderen Seite" and "Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul" on all major digital film platforms.
In 2009, Fatih Akin won the special Prize for his comedy "Soul Kitchen" at the Venice film festival. "Auf der anderen Seite" earned the Prize for best script at Cannes in 2007 and, one year later, was declared "Best Feature Film" at the German film Award, plus "Best Directors Screen Play And Editing".

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We congratulate our Labelpartner ACT Music and the American pianist Vijay Iyer for a Grammy nomination for his album "Historicity", for which he has already won the Echo Jazz of the German Phono Academy. The chances are good that Iyers debut on ACT is a winner of the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on February 13th, 2011 in Los Angeles. "Historicity" became one of the most acclaimed jazz albums of the decade in the US: It was chosen as #1 Jazz Album of the Year by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Downbeat International Critics Poll. Most recently, in the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, Iyer was named the 2010 Musician of the Year, an honor previously given to Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, and Dave Holland.

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