Perhaps publishers simply don’t have the power or influence over high status political authors to demand that they produce more rigorous, less biased books.
Are We Verging on a Digital Rights War?
There will be a war over e-book rights only if the the opposition — the upstarts and indies are willing and financially able to put up a costly legal fight.
Children’s Books Deals in the News
Collection of books and licensing deals from children’s publishers around the world
Rethinking Book Club Biz, Bertelsmann Disbands “Direct Group”
After scaling back its book club business over the last three years, Bertelsmann is disbanding its Direct Group as a stand-alone division as of June 30th.
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 …
World E-Reading Congress Report: Date – Don’t Marry – Technology
By Roger Tagholm LONDON: There were some choice phrases on offer at the World e-Reading Congress, held in London this week. “Apple is a walled garden; Android is an open garden – but it has a lot of weeds in it,” was one, from Richard Stephenson, CEO of Yudu Media, the free library of digital content, discussing the relative benefits of …
#PubNewsCheat: AMZN Gets Romantic, RH Acquires Smashing Ideas
A brief round-up of some of the week’s most notable publishing trade news: In the US Amazon announced the launch of a new romance books digital imprint — Montlake — which is part of their continued expansion into publishing. They are aggressively hiring in both Seattle and New York and appear to be focusing largely on genre titles. Agents are …
#PubNewsCheat: E-book Sales Still Rising, Random Invests in Flat World
Our cheat sheet to some of last week’s notable publishing news from around the world… By Hannah Johnson Last week, both Nielsen BookScan and the Association of American Publishers reported that print sales in the USA continue to fall as e-book sales are rising. The AAP figures showed that print sales declined by 25% across all segments in the first …
Bertelsmann Boosted By Sarrazin’s Million-copy Bestseller
By Siobhan O’Leary Random House parent Bertelsmann has announced its final results for 2010, the year of its 175th anniversary, showing signs nearly across the board that cost-saving measures and digital expansion are having a positive impact. Revenues for the Bertelsmann Group as a whole increased by 4.5% to €15.8 billion in 2010 and profits jumped from €35 million to …
100 Million Books Downloaded to iPad, Random House Adds 17,000 Titles to iBookstore
By Edward Nawotka If you’re like half of the gadget loving digerati around the globe you’ve probably bene glued to your computer for the last hour watching real-time updates from the launch of iPad 2 — thinner, faster, Applier. One salient piece of news coming from the event was the claim that 100 million books have been downloaded to the …