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Industry NewsBologna at 50: Looking Back, Forging Ahead
For many children's book industry professionals around the globe, a trip to the Bologna Children's Book Fair has become a familiar, and always welcome, rite of spring.
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Libraries
Giving Them What They Should Want
Judging by the crowded sessions at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting last January in Seattle, e-books remain the most contested topic among public librarians.
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Retailing
Judge Sets Date for Apple, Amazon Discovery Hearing
As Apple continues to move ahead to defend itself against the Department of Justice’s e-book price-fixing lawsuit, the company has asked Judge Denise Cote to step in to resolve a “discovery dispute” with Amazon.
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Copyright
White House Issues Public Access Directive
The Obama Administration today used its executive power to issue a Policy Memorandum that could finally make public access to federally funded research a reality.
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Content / e-books
Macmillan DoJ Settlement Set for Mid-July Approval
Barring any surprises, the final settlement agreed to by Macmillan with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle alleged e-book price-fixing charges will be in place by early July.
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Libraries
Ingram Launches On-Demand Journals Program
Ingram Content Group will provide publishers with the tools to manage their print journals “from file set-up to print on demand to delivery.”
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Copyright
Lawsuit Seeks to Put Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain
Author and scholar Leslie Klinger has filed suit in federal court last week against the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, asking the court to declare that the famous characters of Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws.
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Interviews
The Agent: PW Talks with Sterling Lord
Is he the most interesting man in the publishing world?
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Cory Doctorow
I Can't Let You Do That, Dave
In my new novel, Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother, I explore what happens to people when their computers don’t listen to them anymore.
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PW Picks
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of February 18, 2013
This week: the woman who wouldn't die, what to do if a stranger approaches you, and how to live a life of crime.
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Copyright
Publishers Blast New Open Access Bill, FASTR
Once again, Congress has introduced a bill that would mandate public access to publicly-funded federal research, ramping up the the tension between publishers and the research community. The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) was introduced in Congress yesterday, February 14, on a bi-partisan basis. The bill would require that federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million provide the public with online access to research manuscripts stemming from publicly-funded research no later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Conferences
TOC 2013: Tim O’Reilly Tells Publishers to ‘Work on Stuff that Matters’
For the first time in three years, Tim O’Reilly stood on stage and addressed Tools of Change, the conference he started seven years ago, kicking off the show with a keynote talk that offered attendees some perspective on how far digital publishing has come, along with a healthy dose of optimism for where it’s heading.
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Conferences
Live from Tools of Change 2013: The Keynote
PW presents the livestreamed keynote speech from the 2013 O'Reilly Tools of Change conference:
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Content / e-books
PW Online and On-Air for the Week of February 11, 2013
A snapshop of the PW Universe this week.
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Nancy Pearl
Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: Books on the Balkans
Q: While many of us were busy preparing to travel to Seattle for ALA Midwinter, I see by your tweets and Facebook posts recently that you’ve been in Bosnia meeting librarians, teachers, and students. Can you tell us more about what you did there?
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Content / e-books
Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims
In a proposed settlement disclosed Friday night, Macmillan has agreed to pay $20 million to settle state claims, and a consumer class action case, led by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, over alleged e-book price-fixing.
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Libraries
Building Momentum for Little Free Libraries
It’s been four years since international business consultant Todd Bol constructed a wooden replica of a one-room schoolhouse, filled it with books, and mounted it on a post in his front yard in a suburb of metropolitan Minneapolis, Hudson, Wis., in tribute to his late mother.
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Publisher News
Judge Approves State E-book Settlement
Following a swift, 15-minute fairness hearing Friday morning, Judge Denise Cote quickly approved a $70-million plus settlement with 54 states and territories to settle price-fixing charges against five publishers.
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Industry News
Should Booksellers Enter the School Library Business?
At last fall's regional trade shows, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop and Turtleback Books each made the case that indies could and should offer a broader range of educational services aimed directly at school librarians, and subsequently took steps to make it happen.
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Content / e-books
New Journal Publisher PeerJ Ready to Launch
PeerJ runs on an author membership model instead of using a more traditional "author pays" (APC) approach, and its attempt to re-engineer scholarly publishing could dramatically lowers costs for producing and distributing academic articles.
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