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ComicsHow Graphic Are These Novels?
Read with caution: in September, a number of libraries will invite patrons to read comics and graphic novels that have been challenged or banned in schools and public libraries in recent years.
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Content / e-books
Judge Orders Mediation in Latest E-book Price-Fixing Suit
The litigation represents the latest legal front for Apple and the publishers stemming from the 2010 agency switch.
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Content / e-books
BiblioBoard Announces New Partnership Deals
New partners include ePubDirect, Independent Publishers Group, CoreSource and Firebrand Technologies.
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Common Core
Cut to the Core: New Standards After Common Core
As students, teachers, and parents across the country gear up for the start of another school year, many are left wondering what the fate of the Common Core will be when they return to their districts.
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Content / e-books
BISG Higher Ed Study Shows Continuing Disruption
New findings from BISG's ongoing survey of student and faculty attitudes show students will pay for solutions that reduce study time, improve outcomes.
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Content / e-books
Report: Libraries Struggling with E-books
U.S libraries have made the most headway with e-books in libraries, but internationally, the situation remains problematic, according to a new report from the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).
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Content / e-books
Court Grants Preliminary Approval to Apple Settlement
As expected, Judge Denise Cote granted preliminary approval to a deal that would settle money damages arising from Apple’s e-book price-fixing case.
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Libraries
How E-book Subscription Programs Will Affect Libraries
With the launch of Kindle Unlimited (KU), Amazon’s subscription service, consumer-oriented e-book subscription services are beginning to look like a coming thing.
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Content / e-books
Apple Settlement Won’t Be Modified
The parties in the Apple settlement indicated that they would not be modifying the agreement, after a hearing last week in which Judge Cote expressed concerns with the deal.
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Content / e-books
Macmillan Expands Library E-book Lending
Macmillan announced today that it will make its full catalog of frontlist e-book titles available to libraries via its public library e-lending pilot.
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Libraries
The P&L Sheet: Against “Curation”
I knew the word “curate” had successfully shed its musty history—cluttered with Etruscan vases and dioramas of American bison—when I got an email from Brooks Brothers a few years back announcing that it had “carefully curated” a collection of shirts for my consideration.
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Content / e-books
What’s Next for the Apple Settlement?
Five core questions about Apple's deal to settle damages in its e-book price-fixing case, including how much consumers can expect to get refunded, and when.
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Content / e-books
Judge on Apple Settlement: Not So Fast
Cote's order suggests she may not be pleased with any unnecessary delay in getting settlement funds to consumers.
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Copyright
Conan Doyle Estate Appeals Copyright Case to Supreme Court
The Doyle estate is hoping to overturn two lower court decisions that affirming that the character of Sherlock Homes is in the public domain, in anticipation of a full appeal.
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Content / e-books
Apple Could Pay Consumers $400 Million, or Nothing
Under a proposed agreement to settle damages in its e-book price-fixing case, Apple would pay consumers $400 million if Judge Denise Cote's 2013 decision is affirmed on appeal.
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Content / e-books
Princeton U. Press Partners with Ingram to Digitize Backlist
The Princeton Legacy Library will give new life to over 3,000 out-of-print titles.
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Content / e-books
Apple Pleads for Price-Fixing Reversal
In its latest filing, Apple called the DoJ’s e-book price-fixing case an “incoherent attack on supposed collusion,” and urged the Second Circuit to reverse.
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Common Core
Cut to the Core: Stopping the Summer Slide
As students across the country enjoy their summer vacations, parents, teachers, and librarians are putting measures in place to keep those lazy, hazy days from becoming a “summer slide,” or “summer learning loss” as it is also known.
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Publisher News
For Lynne Rienner, 30 Years and Counting
The year was 1984, and things were about to get interesting for a young publishing executive at the academic Westview Press, in Colorado, named Lynne Rienner.
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Copyright
HarperCollins Presses Damages Case Against Open Road
In a short reply brief filed on July 2, HarperCollins attorneys urged the court to uphold their request for an injunction and more than $1.1 million in damages and attorneys fees.
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