One of President Barack Obama's biggest legacies will be his healthcare plan. Another, thanks to the Edward Snowden leaks, is domestic spying. But Obama has another legacy, one not so obvious, and which won't be felt until years after he's left office. The history ebooks will remember the 44th president for setting off a chain of reforms that made predatory patent lawsuits a virtual memory. Obama is the patent-troll slayer. Continue reading at 'Wired'
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This is an excerpt from Mark O’Connell’s Epic Fail, an original ebook published by The Millions. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Liverpool University Press is to acquire University of Exeter Press' medieval studies,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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SheKnows.com, a women's lifestyle site, has been acquired by Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm specializing in high-growth companies. Formerly under the umbrella of Evolve Media Corp., SheKnows.com was a hallmark property of the brand, responsible for over 41 million unique visitors... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2012-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christopher Davis died on December 2nd, at home in his sleep. Though he wasn't Dorling, or Kindersley, Christopher was central to everything DK was, from its inception until its final integration into Penguin. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A patent, titled “Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface,” gives Apple the exclusive right to the page turn in an e-reader application. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple now holds the patent for the appearance of their animation which makes it look as if the reader of an ebook is turning a physical page. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Association of American Publishers A Pennsylvania District Court judge seems to be fed up with copyright holders wasting the courts’ time and resources, ordering an adult movie studio and five anonymous alleged copyright infringers to present their respective cases to court in a bellwether... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic will refresh the Horrible Histories series to mark the books' 20th anniversary in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new book by historian James Holland has been bought in two six-figure deals after bids,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fiscal 2012 was a good year made great by The Hunger Games,” Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson told analysts in a conference call last Thursday to discuss results in the year ended May 31, in which sales rose 14%, to $2.15 billion, and net income jumped from $39.4 million to $102.4 million. The... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The History Press' subsidiary in France, Editions Alan Sutton, is entering a process known as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Born under a mountain of debt in late 2007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt forced its executives to spend as much time finding ways to keep the company financially afloat as publishing educational materials and trade and reference books. That is one reason why when HMH filed for Chapter 11 protection... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The History Press has signed The First World War in 100 Objects by battlefield specialist Peter... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susie Harries' Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) and Professor Alexandra... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ebury Press has acquired a book written by the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yahoo files papers outlining ways of scattering adverts through digital books based on what is being read. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic Children’s Books has announced plans to close its existing Horrible Histories... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Librarian Matthew White discusses 'The Great Big Book of Horrible Things' and his desire to set the record straight. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 'Enemies: A History of the FBI,' Tim Weiner ('Legacy of Ashes') offers a scathing indictment of the FBI, before J. Edgar Hoover and since.Each week, the FBI sends reporters an email of "top ten news stories" that it hopes will hit the headlines. The press releases usually highlight crooks... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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