Elsevier is the world’s largest scholarly publisher and publishes more than 500,000 articles annually in 2,500 journals, while the University of California system includes more than 280,000 students and more than 227,000 faculty and staff.
“Over the last two decades of digital disruption and global economic meltdowns, the most important things to make for a good sales year [for the book business] were consumers with disposable income and a reasonable level of confidence in the economy,” says PW’s Andrew Albanese.
By providing children with diverse books, we open up the world to them and encourage their wonder and awe. And we show kids that diversity is the nature of humanity.
Times have changed, Rep. Cicilline said, and ‘we must level the playing field.’
In Germany, a boom in book sales for the first half of December was followed by a stringent lockdown that crushed the holiday market.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs have said only that they look forward to proving what they see as a major e-boom price-fixing scam
The only mention of the book business in Amazon’s 2020 year-end results was tied to self-publishing.
The First Lady tells ALA the Biden Administration is ready to work with libraries.
Hagens Berman last filed an e-book price-fixing lawsuit against Apple and five of the then-Big Six publishers in August 2011.
The value of a bookstore is going to the bookstore. To change from that model to an online business model means staff and other business changes that place independent booksellers in direct competition with Amazon.