Final Hearing on States E-book Deal Set for February 8

September 17, 2012

Court Grants Preliminary Approval to States E-book Deal; Public Hearing Set for February 8 Judge Denise Cote last week granted preliminary approval to a more than $70 million e-book settlement involving 54 U.S. states and territories. The order starts the clock ticking toward final approval, and notice will now go out to cosumers within 30 days. Consumers will then have 90 days to opt-oput of the deal, or elect to receive a check instead of a credit to their e-book retailer account(s). In a potentially interesting twist, Cote set a public hearing on the settlement for February 8 at the United States Courthouse in New York City. more » With DoJ Settlement Approved, Pre-Trial Skirmishes Begin for Non-Settling Parties And now, on to the main event. Following the approval of the DoJ's price-fixing settlement earlier this month, last week saw filings from Penguin and Apple. While the filings are mostly your typical pre-trial skirmishing over evidence, they make clear a key strategy for the non-settling publishers and Apple: putting Amazon on trial. more » ADVERTISEMENT Bertelli Named NAIPR President, Replacing Miller Former commission rep Eric Miller, NAIPR's president for the past decade, has passed the baton to Eileen Bertelli, a 25-year industry veteran who has worked as a Parson Weems commission rep for the past two years. Bertelli is NAIPR's first female president. more » Ballantine Bantam Dell Rejiggers Nonfiction Program Ballantine Bantam Dell is creating a nonfiction team, which it says will complement its existing fiction team (head by Jennifer Hershey and Kim Hovey). The nonfiction group will be led by Jennifer Tung, who is joining RH from the women's magazine Redbook and stepping into the newly created role of v-p, editorial director of nonfiction. Tung will report to Libby McGuire, executive v-p and publisher of the division. Also new to the team is Richard Callison, who has been at Random House for years, working predominantly in sales, will now have the title of associate publisher of nonfiction. more » Today's Job Publishers Weekly is seeking a Copy Editor. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. Banks Inks Seven Figure Deal With Berkley for Erotic Trilogy E.L. James may have been momentarily bumped from her perch atop the bestseller list, but the genre she reignited, erotica, shows no signs of cooling off. Cindy Hwang, executive editor at Penguin's Berkley Books imprint, has signed up an erotic trilogy from bestselling romance author Maya Banks for seven figures. Agent Kimberly Whalen at Trident Media Group handled the world English rights deal for Banks, and the first book in the trilogy, Rush, is set for February 2013. more » » Banned Book Video Released by ALA To help encourage people to begin posting videos to the Banned Book Week YouTube channel, the American Library Association and other sponsors of BBW released a two-minute video produced by Bookmans, an independent bookstore in Arizona. more » » Job Moves: September 17, 2012 Kevin Doughten is senior editor at Crown. He was previously with Viking as editor. Gene Kucinski has been hired as director of new business development at Spry Publishing. He was most recently district manager at Solvay Pharmaceuticals. more » » THE ROUNDUP Children's Book Market Thriving: A look at the fall's strong lineup. Amazon Collects California Sales Tax: The free ride is over. How Fan Fiction Changes Publishing: The latest example: Abigail Gibbs's Dinner With a Vampire. Brooklyn Book Festival & Small Presses: Johnny Temple of Akashic: "There's a certain scrappiness and desperation and thirst and hunger that leads to the most exciting books." What's Wrong With Reading?: A teen takes a look at the stigma of reading in the Huffington Post. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air September 17, 2012: Richard E. Dauch, Hendrick Smith Richard E. Dauch, author of American Drive: How Manufacturing Will Save Our Country (St. Martin’s Press, 978-1-250-01082-7), will appear on Fox & Friends, Tuesday, September 18. Hedrick Smith will be on Tavis Talks for Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 978-1400069668). more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Peter Brantley Moving Up a Level Days after Douglas County Libraries published a worksheet on consumer vs. library ebook pricing, the library community is reeling with news broken by Infodocket in Library Journal that Hachette USA [...] more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey SYTYCW Contest from Harlequin Today kicks off the So You Think You Can Write (SYTYCW) Online Conference offered by Harlequin.  This whole week they will be offering 24/7 advice by over 50 Harlequin/Mills & [...] more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt Are Things This Bad? There is a publisher, that shall remain nameless, that has a new habit of sending out invoices, statements and delinquency notices every Saturday morning. I find this a curious time [...] more » Genreville Rose Fox PW Is Hiring! We're looking for a copy editor. Are you the one? more » ListenUp Adam Boretz Audio Bestsellers: Week of 09.10.12 Shaking up this week's Audio Bestseller List from Publishers Weekly, Kathy Reichs's newly released Bones Are Forever (narrated by Linda Emond) grabbed the #1 spot. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY The Queen of Art Comics New Yorker art director, publisher of Toon Books and RAW co-founder Francois Mouly signed books at the Comic Book Legal Defense booth at the Small Press Expo (SPX) in Bethesda, Md. this past weekend. Mouly is the author of Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See (Abrams) and was honored as a special guest at this year's SPX. Photo Credit: Calvin Reid	Of Note Tracking Amazon: 'Hunger Games' Dropped To $1.57 The movie tie-in paperback edition of The Hunger Games was reduced to $1.57 and immediately went from #20 to #2 on Amazon's bestseller list--enough to jump the Fifty Shades books but not enough to jump No Easy Day. The regular paperback edition, selling for $5.84, is ranked #19. more » TOC Holds E-book Webcast TOC will hold a webcast "Publishing's Remediators: A Conversation with ZolaBooks' CEO Joe Regal and Kat Meyer" on Wednesday, September 19 at 1 p.m. Pacific. Topics include the disintermediative nature of the current dominant e-book retailers, the impact of the DoJ's ruling on competition in the e-book space, and the importance of curation that marries the best of human know-how and algorithms. Register here. more »

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