Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
EbooksGoogle 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >