February 19, 2013
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 Lawsuit Seeks to Put Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain To author and scholar Leslie Klinger, it's elementary: the characters of Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson are solidly in the public domain, and should be free for creators to use in new works. But after recent efforts by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate to extract license fees, Klinger (who is also a lawyer) filed suit in federal court last week against the estate, asking the court to declare that the famous characters of Holmes and Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws. more »  Reader's Digest is once again restructuring its debt and in the process has filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Under the plan, RD will convert about $465 million in notes to equity, leaving the company with approximately $100 million in debt when it emerges from bankruptcy, which it anticipates occurring in about six months. more »  MetaComet Systems, the company that developed the RoyaltyTracker royalty management system, has begun tests on AuthorPortal.com, a new platform that it hopes will improve communications between authors, publishers and agents. AuthorPortal.com is in beta testing with the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group and Samhain Publishing, and the company's president David Marlin said he expects to gradually add more publishers in the months ahead. more »  Europa Editions Goes Global with World Noir Imprint Europa Editions has long been a publisher of renowned international crime fiction, but its newest imprint, World Noir, marks the publisher's rededicated effort to the genre—with a distinctive look and personality. more » Over this past President's Day weekend in Georgia, more than 10,000 people gathered in Telfair Square to celebrate the Savannah Book Festival. In a keynote, James Patterson spoke of his belief that book festivals are important places to help readers connect with books. more »
Indiana's Mudsock Books & Curiosity Closing After almost five years of stagnant sales, Mudsock Books & Curiosity Shoppe in Fishers, Ind., is closing. Cindy Rushton, the owner of the children's bookstore, which is in a suburb of Indianapolis, said she expects to shut the doors in mid-March. more » » At Penguin, Colleen Lindsay is now associate director of marketing, social media and reader experience. Ashley Fisher-Tranese has been promoted to associate director of advertising and promotion. Craig Burke has been promoted to director of marketing for Riverhead trade paperbacks and Perigee Books. Erica Colon Martirano has been promoted to associate director of marketing and promotion. Jodi Rosoff has been promoted to associate director of marketing and publicity. more » » Bookmasters has signed an agreement with Knox Robinson Publishing (KRP) to begin distributing selected titles in e-book format to all e-book retailers. more » » Join PW for a Live Interactive Webcast today, February 19 at 2:00 p.m. EST, Building the Next Generation of YA Stars. more » »
Amazon Fires German Security Force: Amazon reacted to mounting criticism Monday by firing a security company named in a German television documentary about alleged mistreatment of foreign temporary workers. Angry Birds Has a VP of Book Publishing: Sanna Lukander explains why print books are more than a licensing sideline for Rovio. Mantel on Middleton: Mantel said the Duchess "appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished." World's Worst Poet Wins at Auction: 19th-century poet William Topaz McGonagall, whose works were so detested he was pelted with rotten fish, has last laugh. War & Peace Gets BBC Miniseries: The long novel will become six hour-long episodes scheduled to be broadcast on BBC One in 2015.
 Authors on the Air February 19, 2013: Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman will be on Fox & Friends and NPR's Marketplace for Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing (Twelve, 9781455515158). more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash ’2666′ in Pie Chart Form What's in the center of our '2666' pie? Lemon. more » Barbara Vey Beautiful Creatures With the movie version of Beautiful Creatures opening, I remember meeting the authors when the book first came out. more » Josie Leavitt Perfectly Pinkalicious On Saturday we were overrun with mostly little girls in pink, who came to meet Victoria Kann, creator of the wildly popular Pinkalicious series. more » Rose Fox Con or Bust Auction Is Open Con or Bust will help send fans of color to SF/F conventions. more »
 Patterson Gives Savannah KeynoteJames Patterson gave the opening keynote on February 15 to kick off the 2013 Savannah Book Festival in front of a sold-out crowd at the Trustees Theater. |    
Binc Opens Up Scholarships to Bookstore Employees The Book Industry Charitable Foundation will accept applications from February 18, 2013 through April 18, 2013 for the Binc Foundation Scholarship program.The program will offer up to 35 higher education awards totaling $100,000 to eligible bookstore employees, bookstore owners, former Borders employees and dependents of bookstore employees, owners and former Borders employees. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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