For book publishers at holiday time, mailboxes just keep filling up – not with festive season’s greetings, but with attorney’s bills. In various courtrooms around Manhattan this week, rulings from the bench approved class action settlements in the Apple e-book...
Once a quiet corner of the media world, the book business today has a warlike cast. Court battles over copyright questions can rage for years, while clashes over price-fixing and antitrust violations flare then fade. Of all the battles to come to Bookland, however,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Right-sized and re-made, the Frankfurt Book Fair retains its pre-eminent position in the global publishing industry, digital revolution and all. “A lot of business can now be done over the Internet, and frankly, you don’t need to bring the teams you used to have,”...
In the home of the printed book, the crowd is looking well beyond the page and seeking reconciliation with the digital world. At this week’s 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair, Markus Dohle, CEO of the recently merged mega-publisher Penguin Random House, even made...
Confidence in a brighter future has sold a few books in its time. Norman Vincent Peale called it the “power of positive thinking” and certainly, it worked for him – the bible of self-help has sold more than five million copies since it first appeared in 1952. Today in...
