Laurie R. King Is Still on the Case

As the author’s Mary Russell series enters its third decade, the latest entry mines new corners of Sherlockian lore and offers glimpses into King’s own life. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-08 05:00:00 UTC ]

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For Second Time, Appeals Court Hears GSU E-Reserves Case

The decade-old litigation over digitized course readings made another appearance before the 11th Circuit last week, but the case could still be far from a conclusion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers, Authors Win KinderGuides Copyright Case

A federal judge has found that Moppet Books had infringed copyright with its unauthorized children's "learning guides" to a host of classic novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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King makers

Danny Arter explores a close collaboration between author, artist, designer and production staffer that has resulted in a vibrant illustrated title which wears the extensive labour that has gone into its creation effortlessly. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kings Road launches 'leftfield' non-fiction imprint 535

Kings Road Publishing is launching a new non-fiction imprint this autumn called 535, hoping to turn "leftfield ideas" into bestsellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Casely-Hayford to chair Carnegie and Greenaway Medals diversity review

CILIP has announced that Margaret Casely-Hayford, the chair of charity ActionAid UK, is to lead a review into the diversity of its Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals prompted after a backlash over the 2017 Carnegie Medal longlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elsevier awarded $15m from Sci-Hub in copyright case

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has welcomed a US court ruling awarding publisher Elsevier $15m in damages for copyright infringements. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bauer's Australia boss quits, replaced by New Zealand CEO, after Rebel Wilson defamation case

The chief executive officer of magazine publisher Bauer Media Australia, Nick Chan, has left the company barely a year after taking the helm.  Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2017: Making the Case for Casemate

In 1996, David Farnsworth came to the U.S. from the U.K. to head the sales department of the family-owned Combined Publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Appeals Court Orders Expedited Hearing in ReDigi Case

The order, issued by Denny Chin, the judge who presided over Google’s library book scanning litigation, could mean oral arguments in the copyright case could be heard this summer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gollancz pre-empts debut YA fantasy The Girl King

Gollancz has pre-empted a debut YA fantasy, The Girl King by Mimi Yu, inspired by East and North Asian histories. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ReDigi, Key Digital 'First Sale' Case, Heating Up on Appeal

In an amicus brief, AAP lawyers argue that a reversal legalizing the resale of digital media would be "catastrophic" for the publishing industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comics, the King of Libraries

Demand for graphic novels and comics keeps growing in libraries, as patrons are asking for both in print as well as in digital formats. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google case raises doubts about German news copyright law

German news publishers suing Google for copyright dues under a 2013 law may get more than they bargained for, with implications for readers and newspapers throughout the EU.Rather than rule in their favor, the Berlin court hearing their case has raised doubts about the validity of the very law... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australia’s grand mufti wins defamation case over News Corp articles

Media group consents to judgment as part of settlement with Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, after paper said he had not condemned Paris attacksAustralia’s grand mufti has won a defamation case over News Corp articles depicting him as an “unwise” monkey and asserting he had failed to condemn the 2015... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Q&A: Could the Henrietta Lacks case happen today?

What happened in the 1951 case of Henrietta Lacks, and could it happen again today? The story of the woman who unwittingly spurred a scientific bonanza made for a best-selling book in 2010. On Saturday, it returns in an HBO film with Oprah Winfrey portraying Lacks' daughter Deborah. Cells taken... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Your Favorite ’80s Jams Have Become Old School Stephen King Book Covers

Part of the reason Stranger Things hit Netflix like an atom bomb last year is because it was an aggressive assault of 1980s nostalgia. Homages to John Carpenter and Steven Spielberg lay just around every spooky corner. Perhaps the most specific nod the show made to that era, however, was the big... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kings Road partners with We the Unicorns on new YouTuber series

Trends imprint Studio Press, part of Kings Road Publishing, is collaborating with digital media brand, We the Unicorns, to explore "the magic of YouTubers and the online video community" in a new series of books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The case for Donald Trump's impeachment bought by William Collins

William Collins has acquired The Case for Impeachment by political historian Professor Allan J. Lichtman in a "significant deal" to be rush-released next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook must pay $500 million in damages in Oculus intellectual property case

Facebook is on the hook for $500 million in damages after losing an intellectual property lawsuit Wednesday to ZeniMax Media over its virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift. ZeniMax, a video game publisher, sued the social network in 2014 in U.S. District Court in Dallas shortly after Facebook... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lynne Truss: ‘A bad book review can kill you – look at the case of John Hawkesworth’

The tale of a hubristic Georgian book editor is an early example of trolling, and a lesson for us allThe case of the 18th-century man of letters John Hawkesworth is not often invoked, perhaps because no one has heard of him. Books of notable Georgians in England go straight from Hawke to Haydon.... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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