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October 5, 2012

Friday News: BN and Microsoft; Google Settles with Publishers; Hachette discounting coming soon

JanePublishing NewsAgency pricing / Celebrity books / educational / Google Book Settlement / Hachette16 Comments

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% ... more >

September 19, 2012

Wednesday News: One of the truest, most inspiring love stories you may ever read

JanePublishing NewsGoogle Book Settlement83 Comments

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 ... more >

Google Books
August 12, 2012

Authors Guild v. Google (Whether scanning and showing book text is fair use)

JaneEbooksGoogle Book Settlement / lawsuits7 Comments

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 ... more >

April 14, 2011

Thursday Midday Links: Mass market paperback sales decline 41.5% in February

JanePublishing NewsAuthor Reader Relationship / Borders / Google Book Settlement / Jennifer-Crusie / self-published37 Comments

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. ... more >

March 23, 2011

Wednesday Midday Links: Judge Chin rejects the Google Book Settlement

JanePublishing NewsGoogle Book Settlement / lawsuits7 Comments

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. ... more >

Google Books featured romance
December 6, 2010

Monday Midday Links: Google Books Launches

JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Borders / Google Book Settlement / Literary Criticism18 Comments

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 ... more >

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