Winners & Losers in Book World

Nov 22, 2013 | News

National Book Award winners celebrated their prizes this week, even as employees at college bookstore chain Follett Higher Education Group consoled hundreds of colleagues who were pink slipped. “We have a great piece in Monday’s issue by Judith Rosen as to why fewer...

India’s Publishing Show Is Globalocal

Nov 17, 2013 | International

With the seventh-largest national book publishing industry on earth, India annually produces nearly 100,000 books – its English-language book production places third, only behind the US and the UK. In New Delhi this coming February, the German Book Office’s...

Judge Rules In Google Books Scan Case

Nov 15, 2013 | News

All’s fair in the Google Books Case; so says Judge Denny Chin who has issued a landmark ruling in the eight-year case brought by the Authors Guild. Of all those either relieved or surprised to learn a decision – at long last – has come in this case, none may be more...

Publishing Success Through Innovation

Nov 10, 2013 | Events

Berrett-Koehler is an open source publisher. That’s one way the independent publisher of progressive books on current affairs, personal growth, and business and management manages to survive and thrive, says president and founder Steven Piersanti. In his keynote...

Books The Amazon Way

Nov 8, 2013 | News

A year into doing business as a stand-alone trade publisher – putting out children’s and adult titles both in print and digital – Amazon retains its confidence in the midst of a change of command. In January, high-profile industry insider Larry Kirschbaum exits...

Ebooks Beyond Borders

Nov 4, 2013 | Events, International

In September, men and women from around the world gathered to discuss and debate the major issues of our time.  In spite of language and cultural differences, those assembled sought common ground and to resolve the challenges that threaten to bring chaos. While that...

Top Ten Books Picked

Nov 1, 2013 | News

The trick-or-treat sugar rush has yet to fade, and the holiday gift season already looms. At Publishers Weekly, the editorial elves have put together the years’s best books list. “We pick a top 10—but we don’t rank them—you know how hard it is to say one...

Independent Publishers And More

Oct 27, 2013 | Events

As the newly-appointed executive director for the Independent Book Publishers Association, Angela Bole sees an opportunity to grow the organization in the midst of dramatic change across the industry. “Recently, IBPA has really embraced the self-published author,”...

What Price Collusion?

Oct 25, 2013 | News

Where Judge Denise Cote has already found that Apple and a cohort of leading publishers conspired to fix e-book prices, she must now rule on the damages due consumers. “The damages model was created for the plaintiffs by a team led by Roger G. Noll,...

Global E-Book Market Report Returns

Oct 20, 2013 | Digital Transformation, International

In time for the recently-concluded 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair, Vienna-based publishing consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart has released yet another update for The Global eBook Report: Current Conditions & Future Projections, documenting and analyzing how e-book markets...