Judge says demonstration was ‘peaceful’ but impacted Murdoch, Mail, Telegraph and Standard titlesSix Extinction Rebellion protesters on trial for blockading the printing press of some of the UK’s biggest newspapers have been found guilty.The activists appeared at St Albans magistrates court on Friday accused of obstructing the highway outside Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on 4 September 2020. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2021-07-16 12:17:11 UTC ]
From Gutenberg’s printing press to Google’s AMP format, the publishing world has gone from zero to one million miles per hour, with revolutionary changes to the way we produce, distribute, and consume content. Here is a breakdown of some of the key changes in digital publishing, plus tips for... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2020-03-05 15:43:14 UTC ]
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Journalism is arguably in one of the most fragile states since Gutenberg’s advent of the printing press almost 600 years Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-13 17:13:57 UTC ]
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The unintended consequences of the printing press are a good reminder that we have no idea what the internet has in store for us. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2019-12-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
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A decade after rescuing it from an imminent shutdown, Duncan McIntosh has sold newspaper industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher to consultant Mike Blinder for an undisclosed sum. In an announcement late last week, E&P indicated that its upcoming October issue will be the first... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-09-03 20:10:05 UTC ]
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Prosecutors send letters to publishers, editors and reporters at News Corp, the ABC and others• Follow live updates on the reaction to Cardinal George Pell’s conviction • Full report: Pell found guilty of child sexual assault• Five times guilty: how Pell’s past caught up with himAs many as 100... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thomas Nelson, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishers in the US, has been found guilty of fraud and breach of contract and ordered to pay $15m in damages to printer EPAC Technologies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The FT today published a fascinating interview with Thomas Middelhoff, the former CEO of Bertelsmann, the German media giant. Middelhoff became a star during the dot-com boom—his $50 million investment in AOL became a $7 billion exit five years later—and then his star fell. Middelhoff ended up... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the history of information technologies, Gutenberg and his printing press are (understandably) treated with the kind of reverence even the most celebrated of modern tech tycoons could only imagine. So perhaps it will come as a surprise that Europe’s literacy rates remained fairly stagnant for... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The partner of children’s author Helen Bailey has been found guilty of her murder. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC presenter Jeremy Vine is confronted by Shanique Sheena Pearson, 22, in a road rage incident. The footage, posted by Vine on his Facebook page in August last year, shows Pearson shouting at him for cycling in the centre of the road in order to avoid car doors on a narrow Kensington street. On... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Danaher has been found guilty of murdering author and rare books dealer Adrian Greenwood (pictured) over a first edition of The Wind in the Willows. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A woman who founded the publishing firm which initially released Fifty Shades of Grey has been ordered by a US judge to set aside $10.7m (£6.9m) for her former partner after being found guilty of defrauding her out of royalties for the book. Australian Amanda Hayward and Jennifer Pedroza were... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Satellite engineer Trevor Gibbon has been found guilty of the murder of former children's publisher Alison Morrison. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eight-page section containing the Book of Esther was part of 15th-century edition cut up and sold in pieces by New York book dealer in 1920sAn eight-page fragment from the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book to be printed using Johann Gutenberg’s printing press in 15th-century Germany, will go... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A global piracy ring has been found guilty in a US federal court of intentionally infringing copyright, sharing copies of books from up to 16,000 international publishers. The maximum damages allowed under US law - $37.5m – were awarded. The case of Elsevier Inc v Victor Kozlov and Pavel... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There’s something about ink, paper and the printing press that has always bothered tyrants and those afraid of ideas.Was there a single old hand in the world of magazines who didn’t read the stories about the demand for copies of the post-massacre edition of Charlie Hebdo, raise their eyebrows... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If these are the end times for literature, then we must be traveling in circles, for the death of storytelling looks an awful lot like its birth. The novel itself isn’t all that old. Sure, we can find a handful of examples going back thousands of years, but you have to stretch your definition of... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five major publishers are challenging restrictions imposed on Apple after it was found guilty of ebook price-fixing. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five book publishers have objected to restrictions that would be placed on Apple's business after it was found guilty last month of conspiring to fix prices for ebooks.A New York federal judge ruled in July that Apple conspired with the publishers to fix prices for ebooks, snuffing out... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple has been found guilty of colluding to raise ebook prices. Financial ramifications aside, has the judgement damaged publishing's reputation with consumers? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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