From Stephen Colbert to Kirstie Alley, and Neil Young and to Patti Smith, the parade of authors, publishers and media through the Javits Convention Center in New York sparked commotion and conversation. Keeping busy throughout the week were Copyright Clearance Center...
The party that is BookExpo America prepares to welcome guests to New York City and even the growing donnybrook that is the Dept. of Justice price-fixing case against several major publishers can’t spoil the fun. “In separate filings this week, Penguin and Macmillan...
What’s black and white and green all over? 50 Shades of Grey, of course. The bestselling and controversial adult novel from E.L. James has sold over 10 million copies in print and digital since Random House acquired publishing rights from independent publishing...
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Authors’ representatives – otherwise known as literary agents – have done some writing on their own this week. In a missive to the US Department of Justice, the board of the Association of Authors’ Representatives (AAR) conveyed “in the strongest terms possible” its...
The parties returned to Judge Denny Chin’s Manhattan courtroom yesterday for motions in the Google Books Case. The search engine giant sought to remove the Authors Guild as an associational plaintiff, even as the Guild pushed for its own motion to certify the class of...
A major publisher moves to kill DRM (Digital Rights Management). It’s more good news for e-book consumers, but in corners of the publishing industry, fears persist. Will holding on save the business? — or sink it? “Tor Books, the venerable sci-fi...
O to be in England, now that April’s there. And in 2012, in London, the scene is not nearly as idyllic as in Browning’s verse: The great metropolis is in the final throes of preparation for Olympic game and royal jubilee festivals. It has not gone without notice,...
“Baffling.” That’s the take from the CEO of the American Booksellers Association. “A big win” says Amazon, speaking not for the e-tailer but – it says – for Kindle owners. “An intrusion into the business sector by the federal government in a manner that is designed to...
Surveys and polls are in the news – not on the presidential campaign, but on the rise of e-books in the US and the rest of the world. The French and the Japanese have something in common, it turns out, while in Brazil and India – two of the so-called BRICS group of...
