New details come to light in agency pricing class-action lawsuit
The hits just keep on coming. On PaidContent, Laura Hazard Owen writes about a new filing in a class-action lawsuit against the agency pricing publishers that reveals some previously redacted evidence...
Authors Guild warns over Wiley royalty contract changes; Wiley responds
The Authors Guild sends warning letters to its members when it thinks publishers are trying to take advantage of them. We’ve mentioned recent Authors Guild warnings about Random House’s statement...
Quick Notes: Scribd, Vook, New York Times
Robin Wauters at TechCrunch notes that independent book publisher Author Solutions (ASI) has entered a distribution agreement with e-self-pub site Scribd. New ASI titles will also be made available for...
Yes, Authors Guild, writers are screwed—here’s what to do about it
Any news that writers are screwed? An Authors Guild survey of members shows that 56 percent of surveyed writers earn less than the poverty line here in the U.S., if only...
First One Digital Publishing opens
The new publisher will be run by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Hunter. From the press release:
First One Digital Publishing opened for business this morning by launching their website, announcing the...
Aimer Media teams up with PepysDiary.com to grow Pepys Diary App
I love The Diary of Samuel Pepys and so was quite happy to have the following press release cross my screen.
Aimer Media has joined forces with Phil Gyford's website The Diary...
Unglue.it "unglues" its first book
From the press release:
Two hundred and fifty-nine supporters pledged a total of $7,578 to a campaign to "unglue" Ruth Finnegan's 1970 classic, “Oral Literature in Africa”. The campaign, which lasted 33...
Forrester Research on future of ebooks: $3 billion by 2015
That's according to an article by them in Paid Content. They say that 2010 will end with $966 million in ebooks sold and this will rise to $3 billion by...
Abbeville Press Publisher Robert Abrams interviewed about digital books
The interview is in a article in Publishers Weekly about gift books:
To capture the consumer's attention, publishers must find innovative ways to tap into the market's upsides, says Abrams: "There's great...
Publishers clamor for UK-specific e-book list
The Bookseller reports that as the e-book market grows, some publishers in the United Kingdom have complained that there is no bestseller list for e-book sales specific to the UK....
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
