May 10 2012
News Dear DOJ: Agents Speak Out | Publishers Lunch – “The 13-member board of the Association of Authors Representatives has sent a letter to the Department of Justice opposing the proposed agency ebook pricing settlement with Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster. In a separate email, the AAR called on members “to express(…)
Mar 28 2012
My updates today are brief given my current real life work schedule. Harry Potter books have been released in digital and audio format. The prices are US $7.99 each for the first three and $9.99 each for the last four. If you buy them direct from Pottermore.com, they are DRM free and in epub format.(…)
Feb 28 2012
News I have a lot of news today so I will try to be short. Pithy. Harry Potter digital books will be sourced through Overdrive and available for lending for five years. At that time, the libraries will need to repurchase the digital copies. Source: Library Journal Google decided to kick out affiliates that weren’t(…)
Jul 22 2011
For any and all prospective employers, here is a list of Borders’ employees who are on LinkedIn. And here is a blog designed to collate job postings that may be of interest to those employees. **** Sad about the ending of the series “Hermione Granger”? A poster laments the end of the series and looks(…)
Jun 23 2011
Romance at Random, a community site devoted to romance books and romance readers, has launched. With the launch comes some pretty exciting news. Romance at Random is run by former Borders buyer, Sue Grimshaw. We are pleased to announce the 2011 Loveswept publishing program – a digital-exclusive imprint, comprised of original, newly written e-books, as(…)
Jan 6 2009
Steve Vander Ark and Publisher Rapoport are having the last laugh. Rowling sued to enjoin the sale of the first iteration of the Harry Potter Lexicon. Judge Patterson issued a thoughtful (although I disagreed with the lack of emphasis on the market issue) opinion and VanderArk used the opinion as a guideline and rewrote much(…)
Apr 16 2008
According to Publishers’ Marketplace, Judge Robert Patterson, Jr., is urging RDR and Rowling to settle. Patterson said, “The fair-use people are on one side, and a large company is on the other side…The parties ought to see if there’s not a way to work this out, because there are strong issues in this case and(…)
Apr 9 2008
Remember when the UK was agog (and the webosphere) with Daniel Radcliffe’s not so throbbing, but nude, member (this whole thing makes me throw up a little in my mouth since I’m old enough to be Radcliffe’s mother and the idea of the little wizard of the boy wizard dangling out there is a bit(…)
Jan 4 2008
Keishon blogged that JK Rowling was interviewed for Time Magazine and dropped hints of a possible 8th harry Potter book. She appears wistful about the end of the series and might not ready to let go. The 8th book would feature a different central character than Harry but set in the same world. Her daughter(…)
Dec 20 2007
Scholastic wants to maintain its position as King of the Kids and with the Harry Potter book franchise in the past, it has decided to announce the Harry Potter successor. The winner is a 10 book seres called “The 39 Clues”. The first book goes on sale September 2008 and will be accompanied by promotional(…)
Nov 13 2007
The lawsuit by J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers was filed on October 31, 2007. Immediately thereafter, the district court judge entered an Order requiring the Lexicon publisher to show cause why an injunction shouldn’t be filed against it halting further production of the Lexicon book. This is a case of David v. Goliath. Local counsel(…)
Nov 1 2007
The great thing about being a children’s celebrity is that you can act like a jerk and the majority of your fans aren’t going to be the least bit aware. Rowlings non stop attempts to prevent anyone from doing anything that remotely resembles her work is becoming tiresome. Last month, news of JK Rowling’s lawsuit(…)
Oct 10 2007
Warner Home Video is going to include a two additional versions of the Harry Potter movie in its latest DVD release. One for the PC and one for digital media devices. There is no word as to how the digital movie file will be encrypted although ArsTechnica speculates that it will be tied to Windows(…)
Jul 26 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold a purported 8 million copies within the first 24 hours but because of deep discounts bookstores made almost nothing on the sales. What it did do, however, was sell alot of other books, mostly Potter related books. In another first, the top 15 is dominated by one author(…)
Jul 24 2007
You probably couldn’t miss the business reports of the Harry Potter sales that dominated headlines yesterday. The first run printing was 12 million copies and a reported 8.3 million sold in the first 24 hours according to figures in USA Today. When I look at the Potter mania, partly induced by the media, partly induced(…)
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