JaneEbooksdigital rights management / Hachette/Grand Central24 Comments

From Teleread.org comes this disturbing news: "Overdrive, Mobipocket Paris, and Ingram Digital have all told us Hachette is pulling them from the feeds," Bob told me in a 4:13 a.m. update. "All the resellers may not have completed all catalog updates yet. I know that we’re auditing our updates-to make ... more >

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Hachette/Grand Central11 Comments

A battle between the publishing side and the retail side is forming overseas. Amazon has stopped selling new copies of some Hackette Livre UK’s most popular titles such as books from Stephen King, James Patterson, and Alexander McCall Smith. Amazon lists the books but the only way to order the ... more >

JanePublishing Newsdigital publishing / Ebooks / Grand-Central-Publishing / Hachette/Grand Central / IDPF3 Comments

According to Publishers Weekly, Hachette Book Group USA (which includes Grand Central Publishing, the house of Elizabeth Hoyt and Karen Rose) will adopt the International Digital Publishing Forum’s new file format standard for ebooks. The format standard allows a publisher to create just one digital book file instead of the ... more >

JanePublishing Newsbook-sales / Hachette/Grand Central1 Comments

Apparently a much discussed topic at BookExpo America 2006 was the issue of foreign rights, particularly European ones. Most American publishers advocate an open European market but some UK publishers are contracting exclusive deals for distribution which means that many foreign rights deals aren’t getting accomplished. Hachette, one of the ... more >