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Class Plaintiffs: Apple Should Pay $840 Million in Damages

If the plaintiff number is granted, it would put the total damages in this ebook conspiracy at over $1 billion. Five publishers have already paid $166 million. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Authors Launch Brown Girls Publishing

Bestselling Simon & Schuster authors Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley are now teaming up on the business side: the two writers are launching Brown Girls Publishing, a new digital publishing venture that debuts today. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S Unveils Web Site for Biz Book Coverage

250 Words is a "publisher-agnostic" site featuring essays, reviews, and interviews. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Longlists for CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway medals

Thanks to a “bumper year” of nominations, the Chartered Institute of Library and... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers advertise for chair of new press regulator

Wanted: someone unconnected with the newspaper and magazine publishing industry willing to take on the burden of chairing a new press regulator for £150,000 a year.Applicants are being invited for the inaugural chair of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) in an advert placed in... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix and Google Books Are Blurring the Line Between Past and Present

We are now living in a history glut; the Internet has muddled the line between past and present. As our past gets closer and closer to the present and the line separating our now from our then dissolves, we're approaching an odd sort of asymptote.     Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MacAdam/Cage Files Chapter 7

After years of financial problems, independent publishing house MacAdam/Cage filed for Chapter 7 liquidation last month in a San Francisco court. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary festival for Marylebone Daunt

Daunt Books in Marylebone is holding its first literary festival on 27th to 28th March. Authors... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ron Hall obituary

Leading Sunday Times journalist who was the first editor of its groundbreaking investigative Insight unitRon Hall, a former top executive of the Sunday Times in its pre-Murdoch golden era, has died aged 79. Hall's distinctions were many: first editor of the paper's successful investigative unit,... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Turn your passions into prose? Now there's a movel idea

By encouraging the young to publish fan fiction, story-sharing startup Movellas is tackling English children's low literacy levelsLiteracy levels among English young adults compare poorly with those in other industrialised countries, according to an OECD survey last autumn which ranked England a... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Web advertising: still a small net in a very large pond

Internet ad revenues are growing fast. But, even now, they make up only 4.5% of the global wholeHere, as recession ends, is a reality check on the global media ad market (courtesy of Nielsen). Revenues via the internet are up 32.4%, up 4.3% via TV and 5.1% on posters. But they're down 2.2% for... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rowling 'got Potter romance wrong'

Harry Potter author JK Rowling appears to suggest the boy wizard would have been a better match for Hermione Granger than Ron Weasley in a new magazine interview. Continue reading at 'BBC News'

[ BBC News | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can Twitter co-founder take an 'evolutionary leap' into storytelling?

Collaborative publishing website Medium, which aims to reinvent the blog, secures first external investmentMedium, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams's online publishing venture, has no shortage of ambition – to reinvent the blog as a digital storytelling format and match the impact of the... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon and Kobo tie for title of favorite ebook seller in survey

The survey was conducted by the site Good e-Reader among participants whom Good e-Reader estimated buy between 50 and 100 books a year. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Privacy is complicated. We're a mystery not just to others but to our ourselves | Giles Fraser

We find out so little about a person by watching them on Big Brother or reading their secrets exposed in the Daily MailWe just met half an hour ago. But I'm sitting in a Soho tapas bar, drinking sherry, and telling Josh Cohen my life story. The joke – lost on neither of us – is that he has just... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roth Tops in Social Media

Veronica Roth’s Divergent, the first book in her wildly popular series of the same name, was the most-talked-about title on social media in January. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Should Brands Even Be in the Content Business?

The editorial director of the Online Publishers Association weighs in on whether brands should be in the business of creating copy -- or whether that should be left to a partnership with the pros. The post Should Brands Even Be in the Content Business? appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Teenage Memoir Gives New Life to Its 1950s Inspiration

Without Betty Cornell, 15-year-old Maya Van Wagenen would be in a very different place. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book the Writer service brings authors to book clubs – for a fee

While authors have appeared in person, via Skype or via telephone at book clubs before, Book the Writer has the clubs pay for the author's appearance. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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House of SpeakEasy Takes the Stage

At the January 27 inaugural gala for Seriously Entertaining, a monthly “literary cabaret,” the actress Uma Thurman read three fiery passages as part of a literary quiz called “Tip of My Tongue.” Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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