Oct 5 2012
Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Yesterday, Barnes & Noble and Microsoft announced that it finalized the formation of a new company called Nook Media which will focus on the college and digital markets. Microsoft invested $300 million for an approximate 17.6% equity stake and B&N will own the remaining 82.4% stake. “One of the first(…)
Sep 19 2012
A Love Story In 22 Pictures – If you love a romance with a true happy ever after ending, you really owe it to yourself to click on this link Buzzfeed Followup: I tweeted this link out yesterday and someone provided me with a link to a photography friend of Taylor Morris’ who has three(…)
Aug 12 2012
Introduction In 2004, Google undertook an ambitious project to scan and preserve every printed piece of material in the world. This eventually caused great consternation with copyright holders and led to The Authors Guild filing a lawsuit, among others, alleging that Google’s scanning and subsequent book text index was an impermissible infringement on copyright. The(…)
Apr 14 2011
At RT, there were dozens of workshops about self publishing. I sat on a panel myself with HP Mallory and Mark Coker. HP Mallory has sold over 130,000 copies of her self published books and has scored a 6 figure deal with Random House for publication of three forthcoming titles. As I sat next to(…)
Mar 23 2011
Judge Denny Chin issued a clear rejection of the Google Book Settlement proposed by Google and the named plaintiffs to the class action suit brought against Google for the its scanning and indexing of copyrighted works. Skip down to the decision portion if you want to get to the analysis. Basis of Suit The basis(…)
Dec 6 2010
Google Books launches today. The prices for the non agency books are very competitive which is good for us consumers as I doubt that Amazon will want to be undersold (Barnes and Noble tends to price slightly higher). At the bottom of the page, you can see that Romance is a featured category at Google(…)
Feb 16 2010
This is a quite hilarious ad by Verizon mocking AT&T’s pathetic coverage (I am an AT&T customer via my move to the iPhone). Watch until the end. Guardian asks whether crowdsourcing author advances is legitimate. Deanna Zandt wanted to write a book on using social networking for social change and action, specializing in often marginalised(…)
Nov 14 2009
Google and the Plaintiffs (Authors’ Guild and representative authors and publishers) went back to the negotiating table to craft a new settlement agreement that would address the concerns of the Department of Justice and other critics. The new settlement agreement was released yesterday. For Consumers There were quite a few positive changes. To address the(…)
Sep 25 2009
A British betting firm has set the odds for the Nobel prize for literature. A.S. Byatt, author of Possession (which is essentially a romance book), is on the list at 50 to 1 odds. Washington Post tells the woeful tale of a newbie author who had almost no publisher support. Publishers are basically executing the(…)
Sep 10 2009
Dennis Chin, the judge assigned to affirm or reject the Google Book Settlement, has been tapped to move to the 2nd Circuit judicial position, one of which was formerly held by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Today, the House Judiciary meeting is holding a hearing on the Google Book Settlement. Mary Beth Peters,(…)
Sep 8 2009
Did you have a nice vacation? I was almost completely untethered these past four days which was great while I was away. Unfortunately, the inbox doesn’t clear itself. Here is a piece of news that I missed. According to a mobileread.com poster, Sony will replace all the LRX format books (books you bought at Sony(…)
Aug 2 2009
The point of the Google Book Settlement is to make money. There are some that argue that it is designed to provide more access to literature than is currently being provided, but money is involved here otherwise there wouldn’t be lawsuits. Google Book Settlement has authorized four different revenue models and contemplates others. The four(…)
Jul 12 2009
Introduction In 2003 Google announced it had begun scanning books. Its goal was to create a digital library of every piece of printed work that has been put in fixed form. It was, and still is, a noble goal. Google placed these scanned books in a database and made them searchable. On the side of(…)
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