The Edinburgh Book Festival, which is celebrating 30 years, is the "largest and best respected literary festival in the world", according to its director. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge took Apple to task on Friday for showing no contrition about potentially defrauding its customers of hundreds of millions of dollars. "None of the publishers nor Apple have expressed any remorse" about colluding to fix electronic book prices in 2010, said District Judge Denise... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Samsung has launched an $1400 ATIV Book 9 Plus laptop (shown above) equipped with Intel’s latest Haswell chip, but analysts said such sustained high prices for laptops and Ultrabooks could hinder the recovery of the PC market. PC shipments are already in a steady decline with the growing... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple, in its ongoing battle over an ebook price fixing scandal, has been dealt yet another setback. Last month, Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had violated antitrust laws in conspiring with publishers to raise ebook prices. Cupertino asked for a temporary suspension of her ruling while it... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The US Department of Justice isn't buying publishers' arguments that proposed injunctions against Apple for alleged ebook price fixing are excessive and contradictory. DOJ attorney Lawrence Buterman claims in a response letter that the penalties against Apple are necessarily harsher, since it... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray Press has announced two new appointments to the editorial team. Mark Richards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fake web traffic has long plagued the online publishing world, but Dr. Paul Barford, computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, is claiming the problem might be worse than suspected. And it's costing some of the top online adverti ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Buck,' a memoir by MK Asante, is a captivating tale of growing up with an Afrocentric academic father and a troubled brother in Philadelphia.Near the end of MK Asante's frequently brilliant and always engaging new memoir, "Buck," the author receives an epiphany from a dead man. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A woman who spent a summer working as an unpaid intern has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against Sony Corp. of America, Sony Music Holdings and Columbia Recording Corp. over wages she says she should have been paid.The lawsuit was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the University of California Press, in November 2010, published The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, it was in for a surprise: the 760-page hardcover, priced at $45, became an immediate bestseller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
In his new memoir, Rob Sheffield explores how karaoke lifted him out of existential doom after his wife's sudden death.Rob Sheffield is the kind of true-blue music nerd who'll pause his latest memoir — one with a subtitle promising a book about "the rituals of love & karaoke" — to address... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
With reports showing ebook sales growth is in serious decline, Nicholas Carr examines possible reasons why and wonders if tablets aren't to blame. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five major publishers are challenging restrictions imposed on Apple after it was found guilty of ebook price-fixing. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Reading Agency has partnered with publisher Barrington Stoke to create initiatives that will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Alesco Group is expanding with the acquisition of Statlistics, a Connecticut-based list management and brokerage firm. Earlier this year Statlistics announced a merger with Chicago-based data services provider Exact Data, but that deal fell through. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher Constable & Robinson has said it is "saddened" to hear of the death of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Coming off of a record 2012, when sales rose 125% to just under $3 million, Pegasus Books publisher Claiborne Hancock hopes to keep the momentum going in 2013 with new hires, more titles, and more ebook sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's and YA already account for 22% of the Argentine book market and innovation and increased professionalization is helping the segment to grow. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Benchmarks are the best way to gauge a notebook’s prowess with applications such as office suites, photo and video editors, video players, games, and the like. Aesthetics are another important consideration, because you'll likely be staring at the thing for the next several years. By those... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among this month's starred reviews: a novel in which the discovery of a sexy 19th-century manuscript leads to erotic adventures, and a comprehensive guide for psychotherapists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]