Social media firm announces deal after long-running battle with national and regional newspapers France has hailed a victory in its long-running quest for fairer action from tech companies after Facebook reached an agreement with a group of national and regional newspapers to pay for content... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-10-21 14:21:02 UTC ]
Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle is to be interviewed at FutureBook 21, The Bookseller's publishing conference, as part of an expansive programme of talks and panels that will take place on 19th November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-12 10:46:52 UTC ]
We’ll get into why Facebook saw its entire business fall off a cliff on Monday, but first: e-readers.It’s a device category we don’t see much development in — probably because it’s very much a device for reading text and not much else. Amazon’s Kindle, thanks to its powerful online e-book store,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-10-06 11:15:08 UTC ]
Educational publishers Macmillan Learning, Cengage Group, Elsevier, McGraw Hill and Pearson have obtained a preliminary injunction against 60 websites that sell illegal, unlicensed copies of e-books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-28 14:17:26 UTC ]
The lawmakers seek a wide range of information not only on the publishers’ digital library practices, but also on the economics of the market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction has launched an innovative marketing campaign for the early e-book release of Ben Mezrich’s The AntiSocial Network, which will allow readers to manipulate the title's price by micro trading in GameStop stock. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-13 00:36:07 UTC ]
German publishers say that robust ebook performance last year and this year could be impacted by state-subsidized e-lending. The post Germany’s First Half of 2021: Ebook Dynamics, and Libraries appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-09-08 03:50:02 UTC ]
Decision rejecting appeal in Voller defamation case means companies will be likely to ban comments on more social media postsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingSome of Australia’s biggest media companies have lost a bid in the high court to escape liability for defamatory... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-08 03:33:03 UTC ]
Journalist Stig Abell has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins, including his crime fiction debut and one non-fiction title. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-07 18:18:52 UTC ]
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-09-02 10:00:00 UTC ]
Maryland's recently passed library e-book law will require any publisher offering to license "an electronic literary product" to consumers in the state to also offer to license the content to public libraries "on reasonable terms." The question now is: what are reasonable terms? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
American author Mitzi Szereto says she has been plagued by fake pornographic e-books listed under her name on Amazon in a similar scam to one which previously targeted commercial women’s writers in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 21:51:56 UTC ]
Retailer AwesomeBooks is giving a copy of every book sold on its site to the National Literary Trust (NLT), which will match them to children and schools who need them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-01 12:50:31 UTC ]
Last Thursday, with confirmed cases of COVID-19 again rising across the US, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, issued his first advisory since the Biden administration took office: health mis- and disinformation, he said, has prolonged the pandemic, not least by exposing Americans to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-21 12:37:08 UTC ]
Privacy abuses and misinformation were secondary concerns, two tech reporters write. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-09 05:04:42 UTC ]
In a notice sent to library customers this week via their vendors, e-book titles from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will soon be available via a 26-lend metered access model, a change from its previous perpetual access terms. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
In a filing this week, Amazon and the Big Five publishers said the plaintiffs' claims of an e-book price-fixing conspiracy are "implausible." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Political activist, scholar and author Angela Y Davis is joining the Hamish Hamilton list, after signing a five-book deal with the publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 01:55:20 UTC ]
New York this week became the second state to pass a bill that would ensure public libraries the right to license and lend e-books that are available to consumers in the state. The bill is now headed to governor Andrew Cuomo's desk. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
In a paper released this week, the American Library Association’s Joint Digital Content Working Group offered a frank assessment of the state of the library e-book market and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]