Trump Family Seeks To Stop Niece’s Book
Lawyers for the Trump family argue that this confidentiality clause effectively gives them an ‘approval right’ over Mary Trump’s book manuscript.
A Boost For Book Sales From Bolton?
One big book can go far to boost sales, and one such book came under a legal cloud this week when the Trump administration sued John Bolton over his tell-all memoir.
Calls For Publishing To End “Systemic Racism”
A declaration from nearly 1200 publishing staff calls out the industry’s role in systemic racism and its failure to hire and retain a significant number of Black employees or publish a significant number of Black authors.
Publishers Allege Emergency Library Is “Massive Infringement”
On Monday, four major publishers, together with the support of the Association of American Publishers, announced a suit for copyright infringement against the Internet Archive
Frankfurt Book Fair Moves Forward
Contact-less registration, wider aisles and health checks are all coming to Frankfurt Book Fair
BookExpo Moves To Facebook
From “Public Libraries and the Pandemic” to “Audiobooks and Consumer Behavior” will stream live on BookExpo’s Facebook page.
Reidy Death Jolts Publishing
Carolyn Reidy rose to the top job at S&S in 2008 – at the outset of the Great Recession and as the arrival of e-books threatened longstanding business models based in print.
Frankfurt Book Fair Will Happen, Boos Insists
Frankfurt Book Fair organizers are looking at ways of combining real world and virtual experiences to provide an event that will be valuable, “not only to those who have come to the fair in the past, but even those who have never been to Frankfurt before.”
SCOTUS Ruling: “No One Can Own The Law”
No one can own the law, explained US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
In Pandemic, Libraries Cannot Pause For Long
The value of public libraries is rarely questioned in times of crisis, but this crisis is different because it strikes at the very foundation on which the modern public library rests.