BTB #324: A New Chief for Teleread

Oct 14, 2012 | News

A venerable blog site covering all aspects of digital publishing, Teleread posts on a host of topics from e-readers and other physical devices to innovative virtual libraries. A recent item documented the curious repercussions of Amazon’s return policy – for e-books....

The Week Ahead 10.12.12

Oct 12, 2012 | News

Even as the publishing industry converges in Frankfurt, Germany, for the world’s largest annual book fair, the news keeps breaking elsewhere. This week, in Stockholm, the Nobel committee awarded the Prize in Literature to Mo Yan of China. And in a New York courtroom,...

BTB #323: Books Get A Showcase From Ganxy

Oct 9, 2012 | News

Billed as the world’s biggest book and media trade exposition, Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 opens tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10. As much as the book business is now a technology business, so the Frankfurt Book Fair is also a technology fair. Numerous start-ups are on...

The Week Ahead: 10.05.12

Oct 5, 2012 | News

Trade book publisher Penguin sets to thaw out relations with libraries, but the move on e-book sales is seen as cold comfort by some. “The program is still very restrictive,” explains Andrew Alabanese, Publishers Weekly features editor. “For one, it windows new books...

BTB #321: Publishers, Google Settle “Books Case” Lawsuit

Oct 4, 2012 | Copyright, News

A pair of Frankfurt Book Fairs have made appropriate book-ends to the longstanding Google Books lawsuit. Brought in October 2005 against Google by the Association of American Publishers and, separately, the Authors Guild, the suit charged copyright infringement....

The Week Ahead: 09.28.12

Sep 28, 2012 | News

In the weeks before the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published authors no longer find themselves on the outside looking in. Just ask E.L. James. “There is a significant uptick in the number of American agents taking books to this year’s Frankfurt that were originally...

BTB #318: The Power of Print

Sep 23, 2012 | News

The death toll continues to grow. The catastrophe is not one wrought by nature or inhumanity, but by technology. Month after month, another newspaper or magazine will cease to publish and print. Hard copy, ink on dead trees – whatever you call it, print seems ready to...

The Week Ahead: 09.21.12

Sep 21, 2012 | News

Leaders from the book industry and the American Library Association gather next week in New York City. The Association of American Publishers has invited them to share perspectives on a growing controversy over e-book pricing. For the moment, as the diplomats might...

BTB #317: Authors Take Charge

Sep 16, 2012 | Digital Transformation, News

In 2008, book industry veteran Kristen McLean began research for a book seeking to answer the question “How many decision-makers have to touch a book on its way to market?” Even within a major publishing house, she realized, most people didn’t know the answer to this...

The Week Ahead 09.14.12

Sep 14, 2012 | News

In many, remarkable ways, the book publishing business is unrecognizable from its form only two years ago. Kindles and iPads have seen to that, of course. Last week, court approval of the settlement in the e-book price-fixing case is quickly leading to a re-writing of...