Lawyers acting for the plaintiffs in the case against Apple and major publishers in the US over e... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Reading Agency is to receive a £1m donation from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The gift... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cengage Learning has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a pre-arranged... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A U.S. court has decided that the class-action designation of the copyright lawsuit brought against Google by the Authors Guild over the company's book-scanning project was "premature," and has returned the suit to a lower court for consideration of fair use issues.The Authors Guild filed its... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin has urged a US court to dismiss a case brought against it and its self-publishing arm... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former L.A. County prosecutor's high-stakes tale of crime, celebrity and the courtroom can be suspiciously convenient, but it's all in good fun.No one knows celebrity murder trials better than Marcia Clark, the former prosecutor in the L.A. County district attorney's Special Trials Unit.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An email composed, but never sent, by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs may prove instrumental in the Justice Department's case that Apple, along with the five largest book publishers, colluded to fix prices for electronic books.In a draft email intended for Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue about... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple may not have been quite as indifferent to publishers' deals with Amazon as it professes to be. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fleeting magazine, an online literary journal which publishes short stories and writer interviews... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble's Nook Store has offered short-form works much like those we've seen from Amazon's Kindle Shorts section, but they haven't really been a highlight. The company's new Nook Snaps program may give those quick reads their time to shine, however. The effort will see Barnes &... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling crime writer Peter James is fundraising for The Reading Agency as he publicises his... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hobby titles are proving to be fertile ground for video. Kalmbach Publishing's Model Railroader is the latest to expand its offerings, launching a paid video subscription site to its compliment the 79-year-old brand. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At what was supposed to be a routine final conference last Thursday, May 23, before the June 3 start of the government’s trial of Apple over ebook price-fixing charges, the company and its lawyers were given a glimpse of the challenges they face in clearing Apple’s name. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Designed by Huge, the revamped, digital-only Newsweek aims to bring print mag qualities like cohesion and curation to the web. When it was announced last fall that Newsweek, after nearly 80 years as a weekly news magazine, would ditch print and go all digital, it seemed to many like an ill... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Rupert Heath Literary Agency and the Elise Dillsworth Agency are forming an alliance, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of ebooks, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying ebook releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an ebook price-fixing lawsuit.The U.S. Department of Justice in an... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The gist: "Apple knew that the plan it was proposing involved a ‘dramatic business change’ for publisher defendants." Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Swedish husband-and-wife crime writing duo Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril, who write together... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A complaint about books by the BBC's Simon Mayo and Mark Easton getting undue prominence on Richard Bacon's 5 live show is not upheld by the BBC Trust. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The future of self-publishing, the new agency model and the Penguin Random House merger will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Libraries across the country are taking part in a high-tech treasure based on Simon Mayo’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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