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Attorney Suing Apple Over E-books Says Evidence is “Circumstantial”
Steve Berman, the attorney suing Apple over price fixing e-books, says all current evidence is circumstantial.
German Self-Publishing, Where Innovation Meets Angst
In Germany old publishing habits die hard. But the country’s burgeoning self-publishing industry is challenging the status quo.
8 Lessons from the UK’s World E-Reading Congress
Some things bear repeating, and repeating and repeating… By Roger Tagholm LONDON: Dedicated e-readers could die out within five years, killed off by the rise of smartphones at the lower end of the market, and by tablets at the top. That’s the view of Benedict Evans, digital media guru at London-based consultancy Enders Analysis and Chair of the final day of …
The Most Dramatic Publishing Event of 2010? Easy, the Introduction of Agency Pricing for E-books
Publishing industry consultant Mike Shatzkin examines the impact of agency pricing on the US book market.
Germany’s Big Publishers Yet To Sign on with Apple’s iPad
By Siobhan O’Leary Germany’s largest publishers have not been as quick to embrace the iPad as their American counterparts. As reported in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Apple has not signed on any of the largest German book publishers to its iBookstore just three weeks before the launch of the device in Germany (though they had already landed Penguin, Hachette, Macmillan, S&S …
Amazon May “Capitulate” to Macmillan’s Demands
By Edward Nawotka The battle may already be over in the burgeoning saga of Amazon v. Macmillan (standing in for the rest of the publishing world) which saw Amazon stop sales of Macmillan titles after the publisher told Amazon it wanted to change it’s terms of business, moving to an agency model. On Sunday Amazon posted a letter to its …
Author Cory Doctorow on Amazon vs. Macmillan
By Erin L. Cox According to an article in The New York Times, Amazon has pulled all Macmillan books from their site (or removed the buy buttons) in response to Macmillan’s request to raise the cost of ebooks on Amazon from $10 to $15. Macmillan author Cory Doctorow wrote a piece on BoingBoing.net sees a bleak future in this fight: “[I]f one …
By Turning Authors into Speakers, Publishers Profit, Even in Recession
By Karen Holt NEW YORK: US publishers’ in-house speakers bureaus, essentially nonexistent just five years ago, are turning out to be surprisingly recession-resilient — one of the few upbeat notes in this overall gloomy time for the book industry. Publishers are splitting appearance fees of between $5,000 and $20,000 (sometimes more) with their authors, representing a welcome source of found …
Macmillan’s Caribbean Dream
By Edward Nawotka PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD: “I visited a library in Cedros on the southern most part of our island,” said writer and editor Joanne Gail Johnson,”from the outside it looked like an old hut, one with all the filigreed carving on the eaves. You stand there and you can see the sea through the palm trees. It looks almost dilapidated. …