Halt sales of Jonasson bestseller, court tells UK publisher

High court backs Hachette against Hesperus Press, British publisher of Jonas Jonasson’s The 100-Year-Old Man, after claims of missing royalty paymentsThe high court has ordered the British publisher of Jonas Jonasson’s smash-hit novel The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared to stop selling it, following an alleged failure to pay royalties.Hesperus Press was ordered, after a hearing on 24 April, to cease publishing, printing and selling the English translation of Jonasson’s bestselling Swedish novel and to return copies to Hachette Book Group, which owns world English rights and which brought the legal action against the independent publisher. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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International Bestsellers: February 2012

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Hachette UK moves against download site

Hachette UK has moved to have its ebooks removed from content site Mobiles24. The publisher has... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Real-Time Advertising Bidding Offers Publisher Control

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Little, Brown to publish J K Rowling's first adult novel

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iMedia Revenue Ltd. Provides Newspaper Publishers With Forum For Online Business Opportunities

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Academic publishing facing "unprecedented challenges"

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