If Murdoch Can’t Have Penguin, How About S&S?
Wall Street Journal reports that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, owner of HarperCollins, is exploring acquisition with Simon & Schuster. Reporters Christopher S. Stewart and John Jannarone describe the...
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Who Owns Your Right to Turn Pages?
The patent ticks are at it again I’m really confused. On November 16, New York Times blogger Nick Bilton reported that the US Patent Office had approved Apple’s patent on the feature that enables you...
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Why Do We Have to Choose Between Print and Digital?
Michael Clarke, an executive at Silverchair Information Systems and a passionate music lover, is torn between vinyl and digital – squarely split down the middle. Vinyl to him means warm sound,...
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Happy Outcome for Random/Penguin Merger? History Tells A Different Tale
In his press release announcing Random House’s merger with Penguin, Random CEO Markus Dohle promised agents that “You and your clients will benefit from an extraordinary breadth of publishing choices,...
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US Plays TeleTreaty Partners for Suckers
“It is clear that the world community is a crossroads in its view of the Internet and its relationship to society in the coming century,” said Terry Kramer, leader of the American delegation to a...
View Article70 NYT Bestsellers for $2.00. Too Good to Be True? Ask Paypal
Rowena Cherry, an indefatigable source of information about allegedly unauthorized publication of copyrighted works, reports this latest instance. If you are a bestselling author, or the agent or...
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How Publishers Seized E-Rights High Ground
In 1989 Ben Bova published a science fiction novel entitled Cyberbooks describing an electronic reading device almost identical to the Kindle: “…A gray oblong box about five inches by nine and less...
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Books Coming Back to Bricks?
We’d suspected it all along, but the New York Times confirmed it: retail stores are not just fighting back, they’re coming back. “A Manhattan retail real estate broker reports an increase in inquiries...
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Virtual E-Book Kiosks One Giant Step Closer
For years we’ve been forecasting e-book kiosks, brick and mortar showrooms for e-books. You walk into a store, browse descriptions and sample texts from some two or three million books, point your...
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More Kids Read E-Books But What Do They Retain?
Good news: kids are reading more digital books. Bad news: they may not be benefiting from what they read. A report released by Scholastic early in 2013 carries an ostensibly encouraging report that...
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