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 ]
The new law requires any publisher offering to license "an electronic literary product" to consumers to also offer to license the content to public libraries on "reasonable" terms. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Librarians fighting the “exorbitant” pricing and licensing of academic e-books claim others are afraid of speaking out about the subject and are hoping the Competitions & Marketing Authority (CMA) will take action. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-11 20:10:02 UTC ]
MEP Capital has made an investment in RosettaBooks in a deal that gives MEP ownership of Rosetta's e-book catalog while leaving the operation of Rosetta unchanged. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
Orion Spring has acquired How to Be Broken: A Guide to Falling Apart, an "essential and timely" e-book on post-traumatic growth by Dr Emma Kavanagh. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-28 15:37:28 UTC ]
In a letter to the editor, AAP's general counsel called lawyer Jonathan Band's take on Maryland's library e-book legislation as a "false statement." Band responds. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
The AAP general counsel calls Maryland's e-book bill an "unprecedented government intervention into the manner and terms by which authors and publishers distribute valuable works of fiction and nonfiction to the public." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
After passing the Maryland General Assembly unanimously on March 10, the bill sailed through the final steps of reconciliation this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Liane Moriarty's The Husband's Secret (Penguin) has reigned atop the Bookstat e-book top 10 for a second week running. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-01 13:30:35 UTC ]
With the levelling off of e-book sales, many have begun to wonder whether the book publishing industry will be spared the kinds of disruption experienced by other sectors of the media industries. But the digital transformation of the book publishing industry was never fundamentally about e-books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-13 06:41:09 UTC ]
In a week-long series, 'PW' talks with the chairs of BISG's five committees. Today, Claire Holloway, manager of data management and e-book services at Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, talks about ONIX and how joining BISG spurred her to get a MLIS degree. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jojo Moyes’ Night Music (Hodder & Stoughton) has orchestrated a rise into the Bookstat e-book number one spot, for the week ending 27th February. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-05 00:55:29 UTC ]
Claire McGowan’s The Other Wife (Thomas & Mercer) has boomeranged back into the Bookstat e-book chart top spot. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-24 12:53:51 UTC ]
J D Kirk’s Ahead of the Game (Zertex Crime) headed straight into the Bookstat e-book chart number one for the week ending 13th February. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 09:27:21 UTC ]
Lawyers for a potential class of e-book consumers have asked a federal judge to consolidate four cases alleging an e-book price-fixing conspiracy among Amazon and the Big Five publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookstat e-book chart saw nine new entries for the week ending 6th February. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 16:07:30 UTC ]
US publishing's Big Five–Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster–have now been named as defendants in an amended class suit originally brought against Amazon alone for anti-competitive behaviour in relation to e-books in the US. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-07 12:47:23 UTC ]
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique will be published in e-book in the UK for the first time by Bookouture’s non-fiction imprint Thread. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-04 11:53:06 UTC ]
Alex Smith’s Paper Girls (Relentless) bagged the Bookstat e-book number one for the week ending 30th January, ending the "Bridgerton" stranglehold on the Bookstat chart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-03 15:19:21 UTC ]
Firebrand Technologies has been acquired by Media Do International, the U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based Media Do Ltd., a major e-book distributor. Firebrand founder Fran Toolan will remain CEO for at least the next three years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-02 05:00:00 UTC ]