In a copyright flare-up, California's Internet Archive finds itself on the wrong side of the English-speaking world's two largest author trade organizations. The post Authors Guild and Society of Authors Allege Copyright Infringement by the Internet Archive appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
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A new book by Cal Ripken Jr. and journalist Kevin Cowherd focuses on the issue of bullying among children. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired three titles from its Young Sherlock Holmes author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired three titles from its Young Sherlock Holmes author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child is the most successful British Kindle book author worldwide, followed by Stephen... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If there was any question that copyright law in the digital age is reaching a critical point, a coalition of Web sites on January 18 offered a stark reminder. In the largest online protest in Internet history, some 7,000 popular sites went dark or otherwise altered their sites, successfully... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In early January, Apple released iBooks Author, a groundbreaking drag-and-drop ebook authoring environment that promises to democratize the production of complex, structured books, notably including textbooks. But iBooks Author could also presage something else: the eclipse of open ebook standards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeremy Lin has inspired a lot of rabid fans, magazine features, and six-figure book deal offers. But he's also fueled a new breed of lightning-fast ebook authors. Alan Goldsher, author of "Linsanity: The Improbable Rise of Jeremy Lin," is one of the fastest (and slickest). In the days before... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French authors have been signing a petition contesting a law for scanning and selling orphan and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Ian Rankin stressed that authors "really need publishers", especially "as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alma Books has acquired a debut novel set in the swamps of Louisiana, after discovering the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Whatever else can be said about Tools of Change, O’Reilly Media’s traveling road show on publishing and technological change, it seems to come along just when a concentrated dose of discussion—or perhaps muted confrontation—is needed. Over the course of the three-day conference in New York City,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As much as a quarter of fiction ebooks sold in the UK could be from self-published writers, as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling author Rosamund Lupton has hailed self-published authors at an event to mark half a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published crime writer Kerry Wilkinson claimed the top spot in the UK Kindle bestseller... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Icon Books has signed a new title by Mark Forsyth, whose book on the origins of words, The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publishers have welcomed the launch of Apple’s iBooks Author self-publishing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There's a strange concept in marketing that no publicity is really bad. If people talk about you, it broadly raises brand awareness. People eventually forget the bad news but not the brand. Who remembers last year's furor over Apple's onerous publisher subscription terms? That's the eventual... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple can improve education and empower authors to create ever-better digital books without limiting customers. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple’s iPad has fairly quickly become a great tool for the workplace and in education and the company’s latest bid to revolutionize the market is with ebooks. Ebooks themselves are nothing new, but the existence of touchscreen devices such as the iPad means that the opportunities available to... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Geographic will debut its version of the content archive this spring. Positioned as a resource for libraries and researchers, the National Geographic Magazine Archive will includes every issue of the publication from 1888 to 1994 (such as the June 1985 issue, pictured). Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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