The PW Morning Report: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 4/29/2009 4:03:00 AM
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Justice Dept. Probes Google Settlement; U.K. Publishers Urged to Claim Google-Scanned Titles; The Lovely Bones: The Movie; No Harr-E Potter; Apple’s Kindle Killer?
Justice Department Probes Google Books Settlement
The U.S. Justice Department has opened an inquiry into the antitrust implications of the Google settlement.
U.K. Booksellers Association Encourages British Publishers to Claim Titles in Google Settlement
Just after Google, Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers requested a two-month delay on the final resolution of the Google Settlement, Booksellers Association chief exec Tim Godfrey encourages U.K. publishers not to let Google exploit their titles.
'The Lovely Bones' Movie: Some Early Impressions
Peter Jackson—of Lord of the Rings fame—is directing the film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. Here are some advance impressions of the results.
No E-Harry Potter
The Christian Science Monitor weighs in on why the Harry Potter novels and other big books haven’t been made available as e-books yet.
More Rumors About Apple “Mediapad”
There are more rumors about a larger-screen Apple handheld device that some think will eventually make standalone e-readers obsolete.
