US-based marketing tech company Open Road Media (OR/M) has acquired UK e-book specialist indie Bloodhound Books for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-27 20:12:24 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 ]
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 ]
Bookwire, the international e-book and audiobook distribution platform, is launching its services in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-04 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]