The Week in News Affecting Rights, Royalties, Royalty Software, or Rights Management for September 2, 2010: Sony steps it’s e-reader game up, while Kindle pulls ahead in web searches for e-readers. And one of the most popular tweets of the week. Sony’s Potential to Change the e-Book World Kindle Leads As eReader Internet Searches...
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All the News Affecting Rights, Royalties, Royalty Software, or Rights Management for September 2, 2010: Steve Jobs, in another black turtleneck appearance, announces big book downloads by iTunes users,...
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All the News Affecting Royalties, Royalty Software, or Rights Managment for Wednesday, September 1st: A free webcast tomorrow on e-readers; Borders bears more bad news; and DRM vs. Copyright...
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Big book retailers have been devoting shelf space to toys and other non-book items for years, but yesterday’s news that Borders will start selling Build-A-Bear toys next month has...
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“When MP3-players became popular in the late 90s the music industry started to panic about a supposed drop in revenues. Likewise, the film industry panicked when computers and dedicated...
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Might e-books force a wholesale re-thinking of the contract for books in all shapes and forms? Emily Williams, co-chair of the BISG Rights Subcommittee, wrote last Friday on the...
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Not surprisingly, e-book publishers have been in the vanguard of offering new terms to authors, often as a way of competing against established print houses. In a manifesto on...
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Little, Brown c.e.o. Ursula Mackenzie has said publishers are “more relevant than ever” in the digital era, amid recent criticism of their relevance. Mackenzie was writing on the Guardian’s...
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E-textbooks are picking up steam in the college market, growing at an estimated annual growth rate of nearly 49% through 2013, when they will account for more than 11%...
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Mark Nelson , Strategic Partner Manager at Google, will be interviewed live during Publishing Business VIRTUAL Conference & Expo Sept. 16 at 10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. ET The interview will...
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Last week we wrote about Mike Shatzkin’s royalties calculations, comparing e-book royalties to those earned on hardcovers, trade paperbacks, and mass-market paperbacks. Shatzkin wrote yesterday on the royalty comparisons...
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Cory Doctorow provided an update on his DRM negotiations on Boing Boing yesterday. Excerpt below, and full text here. “My August Publishers Weekly column reports in on my experiment...
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Peter Brantley wrote last week about Amazon’s “gift” to authors — the promise of a 70% royalty — and how it comes with unacceptable strings attached. This week, Brantley...
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Emma House, Trade and International Director for the Publishers Association, recently attended the Beijing Book Fair, and reported on the proliferation of e-reader manufacturers, and the relatively few options...
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Seth Godin’s decision last week to leave traditional publishing behind, has raised several questions, chiefly: Is he really making a radical change? Is this simply another smart marketing play? And hasn’t...
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