The Wall Street Journal offered up a story yesterday about Harper Collins delaying the release of the electronic versions of hardcover books in the coming year.
The most interesting quote is at the end:
One veteran literary agent in New York, Nat Sobel, a partner at Sobel Weber Associates, has been trying to rally publishers to the [...]
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Last week, I read an interesting article in Publishers Weekly about a new e-commerce effort by Simon & Schuster to sell electronic chapters of books for a few bucks.
The chapters hail from the insanely popular "You" series by Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz. Individuals can purchase just the chapters they want, [...]
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After a Congressional hearing on the controversial Google Book Settlement, the online giant decided to allow other publishers rights to print orphan works. (How big of them!)
Read more at The Daily Online Examiner.
Google is finally facing some serious challenges to its attempt to monopolize works in digital format. Whether these attempts make a difference in [...]
Next week is the deadline to file objections or comments to the Google Book Search Settlement.
Libraries and the Open Books Alliance are increasing efforts to alter and oppose the settlement. Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft are also objecting to the settlement.
As I’ve mentioned before, Google is turning into the next Microsoft, a giant entity that wants [...]
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I’ve been dying to see the new horror flick, Orphan, only because I haven’t seen a really good, scary film in a long, long time. While doing some research for a client today, I came across an article in the River Front Times of St. Louis, talking about a news release from an author who came out swinging against the…
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If you want to know the nitty gritty details of how the Google library settlement could change the face of publishing as we know it, register for the Publishers Weekly podcast on the topic. The live audio program is coming to publishers in a partnership between Google, PW and The Association of American Publishers. The details: Date: July 29, 2009…
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A Vermont indie bookseller hopes to level the playing field with sites like Amazon with a new Espresso Book Machine. The machine creates made-to-order titles for readers – while they stand there and wait just a few minutes for a terrific looking paperback novel. The Boston Herald has a great article about the arrival of the expensive machine – and…
Simon & Schuster is the first publisher to ink a major deal with the popular file sharing site Scribd. According to Publishers Weekly, S&S will have its own store on Scribed, where it will sell eBooks from authors like Dan Brown and Stephen King. I think this is a terrific marriage of publishing and new technology – even if it…
Google’s monopoly of digitized books is still raising concerns from publishing industry insiders, as well as those watching from the virtual wings. Most recently, librarians have asked the judge in the Google Book Settlement case to order strict oversight of the program and make sure Google doesn’t charge exorbitant fees to access digitized tomes. The New York Times sums up…
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