Macmillan Settlement Set for July

February 20, 2013

Macmillan DoJ Settlement Set for Mid-July Approval Barring any surprises, the final settlement agreed to by Macmillan with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle alleged e-book price-fixing charges will be in place by early July. more » Update on Amazon E-book Borrowing Throughout 2012, Amazon wooed publishers to participate in its "KDP Select" program, which allows Amazon Prime customers to borrow one Kindle edition per month for free, offering the publisher a share of a royalty pool, totaling at least $500,000 per month. By January, the monthly pool for borrowed e-books grew to $1.7 million, the largest in the history of the program. more » Ingram Launches On-Demand Journals Program The Ingram Content Group Inc. this week announced the launch of a print-on-demand journals program. Ingram was a pioneering player in offering print-on-demand services for books and the new program extends the service, and its efficiencies, to scholarly journals. more » Books & Bars Gives a Twist to Book Clubs Books & Bars, which entered its 10th year this month, is a monthly public book club during which anywhere between 12-200+ participants eat, drink, and talk about books for 90 minutes while moderator, Jeff Kamin, who performed improv comedy in Los Angeles clubs for four years before moving to Minnesota in 2001, leads the discussion and entertains the crowd. more » Today's Job Grey House Publishing is seeking a Sales Manager. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Audible Makes Upgrades Audible has made several updates to the Audible player for iOS, extending the existing app's natively supported devices to include iPad, iPad2, and new iPad Mini, while also enhancing the app's performance for the iPhone. more » » Obituary: Paul Orange Paul Orange, senior sales representative for Barron's Educational Series, Inc. died on Sunday, February 17. Orange worked for Barron's for the last 20 years covering the Mid-Atlantic States. more » » Job Moves: February 20, 2013 At Lonely Planet, Leslie Davisson has been promoted to director, trade channel marketing and national accounts. Gerilyn Attebery has been promoted to senior design manager. Rana Freedman has been promoted to senior manager consumer marketing and communications. Jennifer Pentes joins as production lead. Rachel Berg joins as content producer. Clare Chadwick has moved from Lonely Planet's Melbourne office to the Oakland office as UI designer. more » » THE ROUNDUP Cornwall Wins $50M Suit: A federal court jury had just awarded the author $50.9 million in damages, finding her former financial company cheated her, her wife, and her company out of tens of millions of dollars. 'Amazon Tax' Payoff Arrives Soon: Sales tax from Internet commerce, a prize pursued for years by U.S. state governments, is starting to arrive in California and a few other states, providing millions of dollars in new revenue, though not as much as a benchmark study once forecast. The Tragedy of Truman Capote: The Millions: In all of American letters there is no tale sadder than the biography of Truman Capote. Digital Causes Teen Poetry Wave: Sites such as Movellas and Wattpad are seeing huge numbers of teens writing, reading and sharing poetry. Blogger Has Read 60 Books in 2013: And 'Wordnerdy' shows no signs of slowing down. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air February 20, 2013: Amity Gaige, Nell Beram and Carolyn Borris-Krimsky, Lauren Streicher Amity Gaige, author of PW Pick Schroder (Twelve, 9781455512133), will be on The Diane Rehm Show on February 21. Nell Beram and Carolyn Borris-Krimsky will talk about Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies (Amulet, 978-1419704444), on CNN's Starting Point. On Dr. Oz, Lauren F. Streicher, MD will talk about The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy: Advice from a Gynecologist on Your Choices Before, During, and After Surgery, 2e (M. Evans, 978-1-59077-211-9). more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Craig Morgan Teicher Cover Reveal: New Dan Brown Novel, ‘Inferno’ Mega-seller Dan Brown’s next novel, which comes out May 14, features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon on another code-cracking quest, this one inspired by Dante’s seminal poem “The Inferno.”  Check out the cover, which Random House just revealed today.  What do you think? more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey Beautiful Creatures With the movie version of Beautiful Creatures opening, I remember meeting the authors when the book first came out. more » ShelfTalker Elizabeth Bluemle Books You Don’t Want to End Sipping books and skipping the last of series: books you don't want to see end. more » Genreville Rose Fox Con or Bust Auction Is Open Con or Bust will help send fans of color to SF/F conventions. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Byatt, Smith at powerHouse Last week, powerHouse Arena hosted Tracy K. Smith and A.S. Byatt for a conversation on craft and mentorship, moderated by WNYC's Leonard Lopate. The event was supported by the Rolex Mentor and Protege Initiative. Pictured: Smith, Arena director Susanne Konig, and Byatt.

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