Publishers Weekly, one of the USA’s oldest publishing industry magazines, today announced that they are accepting registrations from self-published authors who want to appear in its December self-publishing supplement. Cost of inclusion is $149 with a number of added value features including the possibility of being one of 25 books in the supplement to be [...]
Stieg Larsson would not have approved of the renaming of the opening book to his Millennium trilogy from “Men Who Hate Women” to “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, the late author’s partner has claimed saying, “The theme of all three books is the subjugation of women, the abuse and violence against them. That’s the [...]
The European Commission has cleared the creation of a joint-venture by German media companies Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck to operate an online distribution platform to sell e-books.
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Culminating a years-long lobbying campaign organized by the Association of American Publishers, President Obama this week signed the Speech Act, a law that prohibits federal courts from recognizing or enforcing foreign libel judgments in the U.S. that do not pass First Amendment muster. The law seeks to put an end to a practice known as [...]
Elaine Koster, the literary agent behind Khaled Hosseini and one time publisher of Stephen King, died on Tuesday in New York aged 69.
In a statement Hosseini said: “I am deeply saddened by Elaine’s passing. Elaine was a wonderful agent, and I owe my career to her. She opened her door to me when no one [...]
Shortly after Google’s announcement that they have calculated that there are about 130 million books in the world, comes Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart’s plan for one billion ebooks.
To quote the Los Angeles Times…
“Hart’s grand plan is centered around one number: 1 billion. He scratched his math, based on various premises, down into an e-mail. [...]
With pundits predicting the end of printed books within the decade, The Christian Science Monitor concludes that, if the much vaunted ‘paperless office’ is anything to go by, it’s going to take more than a few years to wean people off paper! …
“So, are paper books an endangered species? Quite likely in the long run, [...]
Camden’s libraries, which received national attention last week when it appeared that budget cuts would force them out of business permanently, are to be saved.Camden City Council is expected to approve a resolution allowing the Camden County library system to take over the three facilities without a citywide vote….
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Barnes & Noble’s board of directors plans to evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company, to increase stockholder value, the company announced yesterday. The board’s decision was prompted, it said, by the price of B&N’s shares in the marketplace, which it considers to be significantly undervalued.
Following the announcement, B&N’s shares rose [...]
The Wylie literary agency are causing a stir in the publishing industry following their announcement of a two year agreement to sell ebooks only through Amazon. The works in question are apparently governed by old publishing contracts in which the authors didn’t expressly grant electronic rights to the print publishers (because electronic rights didn’t [...]