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Author Solutions Case Gets New Schedule
The motion to amend the complaint comes after Penguin last week officially became Penguin Random House, and follows the defendants' June motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
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iBookstore Bestsellers: Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’ Still on Top
While Dan Brown’s Inferno continues as the top selling paid e-book in Apple’s iBookstore, the week ending July 1 saw a number of new titles move into the top 10 fiction list.
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Grimmelmann: The Google Case Grinds On
The Google Books litigation, now in its eighth year, is not so much out of gas as low on motor oil. It grinds on, with more smoke and noise than forward progress.
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Google Wins Appeal, Authors Guild Loses Class Action Status
In a major blow to the Authors Guild, the Second Circuit has vacated the 2011 ruling granting the organization class action status in its suit to stop Google’s library scanning project.
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ALA 2013: Libraries to Offer Monthly 'Top 10' Book List
To start, LibraryReads will feature ten adult titles each month that library staff “have read, have loved, and cannot wait to share” with their patrons.
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ALA 2013: ALA Kicks Up E-Book Advocacy Efforts with Author Campaign
The campaign, Authors for Library Ebooks, kicks off with public support from three bestselling authors Cory Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin and Jodi Picoult.
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Human Kinetics Offers Digital Subscription to Sports E-book Series
Human Kinetics is offering digital subscription access to its Steps to Success series, a line of 21 e-books that offer instructions on the skills and strategies needed to play a wide range of sports.
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iBookstore Bestsellers: 'Inferno' Stays on Top
There was little change among the very top titles in the iBooksore for the week ended June 23 with Inferno again #1 followed by Entwinded with You.
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Zola to Roll Out Another E-Original
Online retailer Zola Books has added to its growing catalog of e-originals with the announcement that it will publish James Reston Jr.'s The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Real Target in Dallas in September.
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New AcademicPub Service Adds Library Content Deals
AcademicPub Custom College Plus, an automated legal coursepack service, is now offering Off The Shelf, a service that allows schools to integrate standing content licensing agreements into the AcademicPub service.
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Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial
After more than two years of legal maneuvering, Apple’s fate is now in the hands of federal judge Denise Cote, and the publishing industry’s long legal nightmare over the alleged price-fixing of e-books is all but over.
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'PW' Publishes 'The Battle of $9.99' E-book
Publishers Weekly has just published its first e-book,The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon and the "Big Six" Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight.
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In Parting Shot, Government Paints Apple as Amazon Copycat
With the director of Apple’s iBookstore in the U.S. Robert MacDonald on the stand, U.S. attorney Lawrence Buterman painted Apple’s iBookstore as a copycat of other digital book efforts—including Amazon’s.
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For Apple, Price-Fixing Trial Closes With a Win
In the final moments of Apple’s e-book price-fixing trial, federal Judge Denise Cote uttered the words Apple attorneys have surely longed to hear, saying the issues over the course of the trial “have somewhat shifted.”
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iBookstore Bestsellers: Three Self-Published Titles Crack Top 10
Inferno overtook Entwined for the #1 spot on Apple's iBookstore top-10 selling e-books, but three self-published titles landed on the bestseller list for the week ended June 17.
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Penguin Tests Social Reading Rewards Program
Penguin has unveiled a new program, aimed at raising the discoverability of its books, that will allow customers to read some of its most anticipated titles months before they go on sale.
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'The Battle of $9.99,' a PW Original E-book
A blow-by-blow account of how Apple and five of America's six largest publishers ended up on the wrong end of price-fixing allegations by the Department of Justice, from PW senior writer Andrew Richard Albanese.
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Coliloquy Adds Ridley Pearson, Rock Bottom Remainders E-Books
Digital publisher Coliloquy creates apps for YA favorite Ridley Pearson and the Rock Bottom Remainders band of authors.
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Eddy Cue Takes the Stand at Apple Trial
If there was a conspiracy to push Amazon off its $9.99 e-book pricing, Apple was not part of it, testified Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, in his long-anticipated turn on the stand at Apple’s e-book trial.
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