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AuthorsThe Call That Changes Everything – or Not
How does winning the Newbery or Caldecott medal change the lives of the winners? PW caught up with each of the medalists of the past five years to find out.
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Content / e-books
Gale Launches New Addition to National Geographic Virtual Library
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has launched of a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) series, its third installment.
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Libraries
10,000 Smashwords E-books Acquired by Douglas County Libraries
Douglas County Libraries has acquired 10,000 e-book titles from Smashwords, bringing its total number of e-book files owned to 21,000. All of the content purchased from Smashwords, including books in popular genres such as fiction, romance, mystery, and science fiction, is available for borrowing by library patrons.
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Publisher News
Elsevier Acquires Knovel.com
Elsevier, a unit of the global STM publisher Reed Elsevier, has acquired Knovel.com, an online subscription reference service providing highly technical data primarily aimed at engineers.
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Awards & Prizes
Record Number of Entries for AAP’s 2013 PROSE Awards
Officials from the the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers say they’ve received a record number of entries for this year’s Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards. And, this year, those interested in the judging process can get "sneak peeks" into the the judging, which takes place in New York, via Twitter.
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Content / e-books
U.S. Proposes Timetable For Penguin to Join DoJ Settlement
The United States government is ready for public comments and expects entry of the proposed Final Judgment be filed by no later than May 10, 2013.
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Publisher News
2012: Beyond Disruption: The Year in Review
For the past decade, it has been a ubiquitous term in the publishing and media worlds—disruption. But looking back at the top stories of 2012, and considering what’s on tap for 2013, it may be time to update those PowerPoint slides.
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Publisher News
Will the Copyright Act Open a Floodgate of Contract Rewrites for Authors?
Publishing attorney Lloyd Jassin has been writing and speaking about the termination clause for more than two years.
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Bookselling
The Bestselling Books of 2012
Half of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins—Jeff Kinney’s latest Wimpy Kid title—cracked the one-million-copies-sold mark for the year, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks 75%-80% of prints sales.
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Content / e-books
STM Subscription Service Knovel.com Looks to 2013
Knovel.com, an online reference service primarily used by engineers, is heading into 2013 after a year of growth with plans to offer an improved user experience, new content, new tool sets and services and more fully integrate its database offerings into client networks.
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Retailing
E-book Reading Rises, Print Reading Dips
The percentage of adult Americans who read a book this fall fell to 75% from 78% a year ago, according to new survey findings by the Pew Research Center released December 27. The survey of Americans age 16 and older found that 23% of people in the age bracket read e-books in the previous 12 months, up from 16% a year ago, while the percentage who read print books fell to 67% from 72%.
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Content / e-books
Baker & Taylor Expands Collection Management Team
Baker & Taylor this week announced that it has expanded its collection management with new staff and a new facility in Crystal Lake, Ill.
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Content / e-books
Ebrary Expands Non-English Offerings
E-book provider ebrary has announced that is expanding its non-English language offerings with a new e-book subscription database—the ebrary Nordic Collection—as well as the addition of recently acquired content from a handful of German publishers.
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Libraries
You Have Two, Maybe Three Years...
At a small, invitation-only meeting convened late last month in the Netherlands by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), I joined some 25 key thinkers, primarily from Europe and the U.S., for an exhausting, engrossing three days of debate. But after many hours of discussion and examination—talks that inevitably spilled over into local pubs and restaurants—none of us was left feeling that libraries were firmly seizing control of their future.
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Copyright
‘At the Crossroads of Legal Code, Computer code, and the Codex’: In Re Books Presentations Now Online
On October 26 and 27—yes, just before Hurricane Sandy slammed the Northeast—New York Law School held In re Books, a “conference on law and the future of books.” Couldn’t make it to the conference? No problem—the full video of the conference is now available online, with downloadable versions ready soon. And check out Grimmelmann’s personal reflections on the program at the PWxyz blog.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2013: All Our Coverage
PW’s 2013 ALA Midwinter Preview
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Copyright
Appeal Filings Outline Authors Guild’s Objections to HathiTrust Opinion
With a new round of filings hitting the docket last week, the Authors Guild appeal of Judge Harold Baer’s landmark copyright decision is underway. The broad appeal raises a handful of key questions on which the AG is seeking review by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, including whether the district court erred in finding the scan plan to be fair use.
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Copyright
Change You Can Believe In: ALA Preview 2013
Since the release of the Republican Study Committee’s copyright reform report several weeks ago, a discussion has ignited among various interest groups about whether a fundamental revision of copyright law is needed.
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Industry News
Core Values: ALA Preview 2013
The Common Core standards have been a hot topic of discussion throughout 2012 – a topic that will get even hotter in 2013. PW talks to AASL president Sue Ballard and ALA's Gillian Engberg.
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Shows & Events
Resolutions: ALA Preview 2013
As some 10,000 librarians, publishers, authors, and vendors gear up for the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting, in Seattle, January 25–29, it’s a perfect time to take a look at the year that was for libraries—and the year to come.
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