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A Failure to Communicate
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News Briefs: Week of 6/14/10
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Licensing Begins To Turn the Corner
Exhibitors and attendees at last week's Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas—including publishers, licensing agencies representing book-based properties, and retail book buyers—were cautiously optimistic that the licensing business may be about to turn a corner after a rough 2008 and 2009.
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Goddard Riverside: New York Publishing's Kinder Side
The publishing industry is filled with members who will send a carton of books to a class of second-graders in Kansas or a library recovering from a flood in Louisiana. But one of the most enduring shows of goodwill on behalf of the industry takes place in the city where the business is based.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/14/10
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Amazon's New Levels of Service
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Wiley Stands By Net Receipts Offer as Guild Counters
The back-and forth between John Wiley and the Authors Guild continued late Friday and into Monday morning. Late Friday, Wiley provided some details about the number of authors involved and the different terms which existed under their Bloomberg contracts.
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Turow Asks Wiley to 'Do the Right Thing'
The back-and-forth between the Authors Guild and John Wiley is continuing. In the wake of John Wiley issuing a press release late yesterday afternoon denying accusations leveled against it by the Authors Guild regarding letters sent by Wiley to Bloomberg authors about new terms, the Guild is now telling its members, "We stand by every word of our alert, and we again call on Wiley to start over."
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The PW Morning Report: Friday, June 11, 2010
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Kindle Comes to Android; Summer Reading with the LA Times; Remnick Interviewed; Brits on Blurbs; Book as Database.
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Wiley Rebuts Guild Charges
In a statement released late Thursday afternoon, John Wiley denied accusations leveled against it by the Authors Guild yesterday morning that said letters sent by Wiley to Bloomberg authors misled those authors into thinking new terms proposed by Wiley were better than the royalty rate they earned at Bloomberg. The Guild implication that the Wiley changes will reduce royalties for all or most Bloomberg authors "is simply not the case," the Wiley statement said.
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Yale Launches New Jewish Biography Series
Yale University Press has launched a new series of biographies called Jewish Lives, in collaboration with the Leon D. Black Foundation. The publisher is calling the books "interpretive biographies," in that they pair subjects and authors to elicit "lively, deeply informed" books that explore the Jewish experience.
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Guild Objects to Wiley Changes in Bloomberg Contracts
The Authors Guild has sent an alert to its membership advising former Bloomberg Press authors not to sign a letter sent to them by John Wiley. Wiley took over the Bloomberg book publishing program earlier this year. According to the Guild, the letter is actually a contract amendment that changes the way royalties are paid from a rate based on list price to a rate based on net receipts. The result of the change, the Guild said, will reduce author royalties by as much as 50%.
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The PW Morning Report: Thursday, June 10, 2010
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Politics and Prose Up for Sale; Wired iPad App Outdoes Print Mag; Obama To Write Mandela's Foreword; Gleeful Books; What Publishers Can Learn.
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An Illustrated Tour of the New PublishersWeekly.com
PW recently relaunched its Web site. The new publishersweekly.com gives us lots more ways to feature our content and bring you the best in publishing industry news, book reviews, and author interviews and features. But, things on the site have moved around and we want to make sure you can find what you're looking for, so we've created this guided tour to help you.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews Archive
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The PW Morning Report: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Brits Excited About iPhone 4; An International Agent; Talking to David Rosenthal; Ace Frehley’s Memoir Readers Digest Cuts 270 Jobs; Hillary Spurling Reviewed.
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Photo of the Day: Penguin Walks for the Environment
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The PW Morning Report: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: NYT on iPhone 4; Demi MemMoore; What's Madoff Reading?; Free 'Twilight' Book; Amazon Splits Kindle Bestsellers; 'Potter' E-Books; Markson NYT Obit.
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Who's Next for Twelve?
Grand Central has started a search for a replacement for Jonathan Karp with publisher Jamie Raab assuring that Twelve will continue under a new leader.
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McGraw-Hill Readies Wooden Title
With the death over the weekend of John Wooden, McGraw-Hill Professional is pushing up the release date for the final book it is publishing with the legendary UCLA coach. According to MHP president Philip Ruppel, the publisher had been working with Wooden and his co-author Steve Jamison on The Wisdom of Wooden: A Century of Family, Faith, and Friends.
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