Authors Guild sues universities over Google book scanning Computerworld Joining the Authors Guild as plaintiffs are the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des crivaines et des crivains Qubcois (UNEQ) and eight individual authors. The HathiTrust was founded in 2008 by several major universities as a partnership of ... | ||
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Books for Cooks: Authors debunk culinary “myths” Chicago Sun-Times It's one of the 101 culinary conundrums answered in Lobsters Scream When You Boil Them (GalleryBooks, $16) by serial cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. The writing duo turn long-accepted practices — never wash mushrooms; ... | ||
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Borders Seller Donates 8000 Books To Chicago Schools Huffington Post While the closures have disappointed some local residents, some Chicago public schools are looking forward to receiving thousands of new books donated by the company hired to liquidate the stores. According to a media release, Hilco Trading LLC has ... | ||
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Odyl Launches Facebook Platform for Authors and Publishers Xconomy Odyl, founded in late 2010, is marketing a software package that's designed to make it easy for publishers and/or individual authors to put excerpts and reviews of their books on Facebook, along with special features, such as giveaways, reader quizzes, ... | ||
Arcadia Publishing Selects EarthLink Business for its Integrated ... MarketWatch (press release) 13, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EarthLink, Inc. /quotes/zigman/81730/quotes/nls/elnk ELNK +1.55% , a leading IP infrastructure and services company, today announced that ArcadiaPublishing, a major local history publisher in the United States with ... | ||
Apple adds Quick Reads section to iBookstore, promotes short e-books tuaw.com by Dave Caolo Sep 13th 2011 at 4:00PM Apple has added a new "Quick Reads" section to the iBookstore, promoting short, inexpensive titles. The collection includes everything from manuals to short stories, each selling for US$5 or less. ... | ||
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Lulu.com Simplifies eBook Creation with New Publishing Tools Printing Impressions (press release) Lulu provides publishing services free to content creators in exchange for a small percentage of profits from each sale. Lulu provides anyone with the ability to publish print books, eBooks, mini-books, photo books, calendars, cookbooks, ... | ||
Digital Publisher Kids-Ebooks Releases Fantastic New E-Book, 'I Can't Fly,' on ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Kids-Ebooks is an online book and app publisher, founded by Bill Bolton, who has been a children's illustrator for more than 18 years. He has had numerous children's books published, most notably his BusyBugz series which have sold over 2.5 million ... | ||
Aqua Books to go non-profit Uptown Aqua Books will go on. For now, the Save 274 Garry Street co-op working group will proceed and develop a plan, and you can decide. A website will be setup next week with information and progress. The working group is made up of people way smarter than ... | ||
Fall for the Book 2011 brings noted authors to speak Washington Post (blog) To celebrate fall, books and the convergence of the two, George Mason University is hosting Fall for the Book 2011, a festival loaded with first-rate authors who will be speaking at venues throughout the District, Maryland and Virginia from Sunday ... | ||
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Lots of books of all interests to choose from Brainerd Daily Dispatch The bags were purchased with a generous donation from a library patron and the books are from the Crow Wing County United Way through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program. For details on how to help a child you know sign up for a library card, ... | ||
Amazon Considering Netflix-Like Service For Ebooks - The ... By Phil Villarreal Book publishers may oppose such a service because it presumably saps the value away from new releases, which command vastly higher prices than older books. Since books take longer than movies to consume, a $10-or-more monthly... The Consumerist | ||
The Millions : The German Solution: Saving Books by Keeping Them ... By Bill Morris When a huge, once-mighty book-selling chain like Borders is going down in flames across the Atlantic, how do the Germans manage to keep their book publishing industry so diverse, so robust, so stable? How do ... At the front of the shop are new fiction and history books, in hardcover and paperback, by well-known German authors and numerous Americans in translation, including Philip Roth, Richard Price, Nicole Krauss, Paul Auster, and Richard Powers. In the paperback fiction ... The Millions | ||
Odyl launches a Facebook marketing platform for book publishing ... By Courtney Boyd Myers This weekend, we reported that Amazon is in talks to launch its very own Netflix for books. With all these shifts in the ebook biz, how do traditional book publishers compete? Like all businesses from the pre-Internet era, book publishing has ... The Next Web | ||
Freakonomics » Bring Your Questions for Willpower Authors Roy ... By Stephen J. Dubner The authors have agreed to answer your questions about their book and related topics, so fire away in the comments section. As always, we will post their responses shortly. And here, to prime the pump, is the book's table of contents. 1. ... Freakonomics | ||
Adventures with e-books, Kindle single edition | Felix Salmon By Felix Salmon It was produced in close consultation with the Kindle Singles editor, David Blum — the gatekeeper who determines what gets chosen to be a Kindle Single, and what gets relegated to the long tail of Kindle Direct Publishing. We're running a great excerpt ... But if Amazon's willing to give their Kindle Single authors 70% of the proceeds even after helping them with design and marketing, they should also offer the same deal to publishers who do all that work themselves. « Previous Post ... Felix Salmon | ||
MediaPost Publications Authors Guild Sues Universities Over Book ... By Wendy Davis The Authors Guild on Monday asked a federal judge to "impound" scans of all books that are currently held by HathiTrust, a joint digital book-storage project of the University of Michigan, University of California, University of Wisconsin, Indiana ... MediaPost | Online Media News | ||
With iPads and e-books, U begins shift to digital | mndaily.com ... By twobbema@mndaily.com With iPads and e-books, U begins shift to digital. The College of Education and Human Development gave out 440 iPads to new freshmen. The explosion of new digital technology has caused both students and professors at the University of ... News | ||
Authors Guild sues universities over online books | eSchool News By eSchool News Staff Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Sept. 12, seeking to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as many as 7 million ... eSchool News | ||
Authors Guild Sues U-M Over Online Books « CBS Detroit By sstoddart The university planned to make about 40 books available online to its students and faculty in October, said Paul Courant, the dean of libraries at the university. He said university officials had been in discussions with the Authors Guild in recent ... CBS Detroit | ||
Authors Sue To Remove Books From Digital Archive [Headlines ... “We've been greatly concerned about the seven million copyright-protected books that HathiTrust has on its servers for a while,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of Authors Guild, an industry group that says it represents more than 8500 ... PSFK | ||
Why the idea of a Netflix for e-books makes sense — Tech News ... By Mathew Ingram Authors such as Amanda Hocking have become wealthy by publishing e-books that sell for as little as 99 cents — coincidentally, the exact same amount iTunes sells songs for. In some cases, e-books are more like long magazine articles than ... GigaOM | ||
Digital books: Reducing physical clutter and overtaking the market ... By Erin Doland On September 10, The Economist published the article Great digital expectations discussing the consumer shift from print to digital books. Unclutterer |
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