Publishing NewsBEA / Comics / eBay / intellectual property / Libraries / OED / Paypal9 Comments
BEA Rebrands Consumer Day BookCon – Possibly recognizing the wincing awfulness of anything book-related being called “Consumer Day,” BEA is elevating the profile of that particular day and calling it “BookCon,” which will allow exhibitors to relocate their booths to the BookCon hall or purchase a “satellite booth” there for ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / bundling / eBay / HarperCollins / POD / privacy4 Comments
How a lying ‘social engineer’ hacked Wal-Mart – ” A Wal-Mart store manager in a small military town in Canada got an urgent phone call last month from “Gary Darnell” in the home office in Bentonville, Ark. Darnell told the manager Wal-Mart had a multi-million-dollar opportunity to win a major ... more >
Publishing Newsauthor-rights / Deals / eBay13 Comments
An enterprising author offers up his book for auction on eBay. The auction, entitled “Offering the Rights to My Book” starts with a bid of $5,000.00 and free shipping. The book has apparently already been sold to a publisher and is set to be published this coming month (September), but ... more >
Letters of Opinion / Publishing NewseBay / Intellectual Property Issues / plagiarism / reviews27 Comments
A company called Edson.financial.group has a books and music and other media ebay store. Over 200 products are reviewed, however, it has been discovered that many of those reviews are copied word for word from reviewers on Amazon. Jennifer Ray from Wild on Books Reviews has had three reviews copied ... more >
Publishing NewseBay / Harry-Potter / JK-RowlingComments Off on eBay Injunction Reported Incorrectly
According to a press release from eBay, the JK Rowling injunction was against eBay sellers and not eBay itself. The case started in 2004 against a specific seller named Baazee.com. The injunction required those specific sellers to stop listing the illegal items. It was not an injunction requiring eBay to ... more >