It’s been six years since British author Philip Pullman last transported readers and listeners to the world of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy. But audiobook fans can now travel back to Lyra Belacqua’s Oxford via “The Collectors,” an original short story written exclusively for Audible.com and narrated by British actor Bill Nighy. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Bill Bryson’s The Body (Doubleday) has sensationally leapfrogged Philip Pullman’s The Secret Commonwealth (Penguin/David Fickling) to claim the author’s 11th week as the UK Official Top 50 number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 07:35:55 UTC ]
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Sam Lansky, author of the memoir The Gilded Razor and the West Coast Editor at TIME magazine, will publish a novel in June 2020. Here’s the cover! Lansky’s narrator, Sam, is a writer and recovering addict based in LA in his late 20’s who is on the verge of emotional collapse. He finds himself... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-10-11 14:00:51 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman’s The Secret Commonwealth (Penguin/David Fickling) has knocked Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Chatto & Windus) from the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 54,301 copies in its first three days on sale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 06:04:30 UTC ]
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Audible has snapped up rights to the new book from comedian David Mitchell, narrated by the “Peep Show” star himself. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-06 03:52:04 UTC ]
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Audible attorneys this week asked for the case to be referred to a Magistrate judge for a settlement conference, but after the publisher plaintiffs rejected the idea, judge Valerie Caproni denied the request. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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At a hearing on Wednesday, judge Valerie Caproni kept Audible lawyers on their heels, but it isn't clear if a preliminary injunction is in the offing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Lawyers for Audible are insisting a federal court should reject a copyright lawsuit filed by seven publishers against its Captions speech-to-text feature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-25 01:04:56 UTC ]
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The Authors Guild and the Association of Authors' Representatives have filed a joint brief supporting publishers' calls for a preliminary injuction to stop their works being included in Audible's Captions programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 19:58:52 UTC ]
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Lawyers for Audible are doubling down on their claim that a lawsuit filed by seven publishers over Audible’s forthcoming Captions program is fundamentally a contract dispute. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The groups argue Audible should be required to "license the rights it seeks to exploit for its profit—just as others must—as required by copyright law and fundamental fairness.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont has pre-empted a new beastly series by debut author Jack Meggitt-Phillips; read an exclusive extract here. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 04:51:31 UTC ]
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In filings made September 20, lawyers for publishers rejected Audible's suggestion that the dispute over Captions is a contract issue, and argued that the program, if allowed to include their works, would clearly infringe their copyrights and cause 'irreparable' harm. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Cultural strategist Akua Agyemfra is announced as the third keynote for FutureBook Live 2019, following Waterstones m.d. James Daunt and Bookstat founder Paul Abbassi. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-19 07:17:19 UTC ]
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Audible has argued a federal court to reject a copyright lawsuit filed by seven publishers against its Captions speech-to-text feature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-17 07:45:07 UTC ]
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Paul Abbassi, formerly known as the "Data Guy", is the second keynote speaker to be announced for FutureBook Live 2019, The Bookseller’s annual publishing conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 17:02:07 UTC ]
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BookTrust will deliver 700,000 free books to every school starter as part of the annual Time to Read campaign this week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 12:05:14 UTC ]
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The Northern Lights Writers' Conference returns for a sixth year with Man Booker-longlisted author Jane Rogers to deliver this year's keynote address. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 05:22:57 UTC ]
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In a pair of briefs, Audible argued that Captions is simply a tool for enhancing audiobooks, and rejected what they see as an attempt to “paint Audible and its customers as copyright pirates guilty of ‘classic, willful' copyright infringement.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish writer Danielle McLaughlin has won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award with her story "A Partial List of the Saved". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 12:41:46 UTC ]
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