Macmillan Settles with DoJ

February 8, 2013

Macmillan Settles E-book Price Suit with DoJ With its larger publisher competitors already having settled with the Department of Justice, Macmillan said Friday morning that it too has reached an agreement that will end the government's lawsuit over its e-book pricing policy. In a letter to authors, illustrators and agents Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he agreed to settle "because the potential penalties became too high to risk even the possibility of an unfavorable outcome." more » Surprise Bestseller? 'Legend of Zelda' Takes Number One Spot The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia was Nielsen BookScan's #1 bestseller for the week ending February 3, selling nearly 60,000 copies in its first week. A significant percentage of that number is likely preorders, as the book spent 100 days in Amazon's top 100 (many of them in the top 10) before it even released. more » D&M's New Society Imprint Sold Another imprint of bankrupt D&M Publishers has found a new home with New Society Publishers being re-acquired by its previous owners and D&M creditors Chris and Judith Plant and Carol Newell of Renewal Partnersreall. Judith Plant will once again take on the role of New Society publisher and all distribution channels will remain unchanged. more » Granada Books Becomes First New Santa Barbara Indie in Decades When Borders and Barnes & Noble closed two years ago in Santa Barbara the city was left with just one general indie, Chaucer's, and the downtown community had nowhere else to buy books. Granada Books will provide a well-located alternative, and intends to be a cultural and literary center for readers of all ages and arts aficionados. more » Princeton University Press Wins Top Honor at PROSE Awards Officials from the Association of American Publishers have announced that the 2012 R.R. Hawkins Award has been presented to Princeton University Press for Peter Brown's Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. The award is the top honor given by the AAP for its PROSE Awards (for Professional and Scholarly Excellence). more » Today's Job Poetry Foundation is seeking a Poetry Magazine Editor. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Publishing Education Gets Innovative at Ooligan Press Ooligan Press, the student-staffed press that is part of Portland State's publishing program, has added a recent innovation: Start to Finish, a project in which students give a behind-the-scenes look at how a book is created. more » » Marvel, Hyperion Plan Women's Fiction Starring She-Hulk and Rogue Marvel Entertainment and Hyperion Books, both owned by the Disney Company, are teaming up to produce two novels based on the popular female Marvel super heroines She-Hulk and Rogue. The two books, he She-Hulk Diaries and Rogue Touch, target women readers with stories of dynamic female super heroes who split their time between fighting villains and searching for a decent guy to date. more » » A New Kind of Conference for a New Kind of Author O'Reilly Media and Publishers Weekly will hold the first Author {R}evolution Day February 12 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Below is a discussion with co-chair Kristen McLean on what attendees can expect at the day-long event. more » » Distribution: Bookmasters Signs Spanish Publisher Bookmasters has signed an agreement with Promoción Popular Cristiana (PPC) to begin distributing their Spanish-language books in the United States. more » » THE ROUNDUP 'Female' Romance Novelist is a Man: Jessica Blair is actually 89-year-old Bill Spence. How Amazon Could Save Postal Service: Postal Service spokesman John Friess says that while its letter-carrying business is shrinking, its package-delivery business is growing. Amazon Crushed in China: By Jack Ma's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Patricia Cornwell Testifies: Claims her investors squandered cash and made illegal political donations. 'Atlas Shrugged' Should Be Required: Says Idaho state senator John Goedde. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air February 8, 2013: Kim Kavin, Gary Chapman, Mel Goodman Kim Kavin will be on CNN's Weekend Early Start with Randi Kaye on February 9 at 8 am EST for Little Boy Blue: A Puppy's Rescue from Death Row and His Owner's Journey for Truth (Barron's, 978-0764165269). Gary Chapman will be on OWN's Life Class on Sunday February 10 for The 5 Love Languages (Northfield Publishing, 978-0802473158). Mel Goodman will be on CSPAN's Shelf Awareness at 11 pm EST on February 10 for National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism (City Lights, 978-0872865891). more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash The 10 Most Notorious Parts of Famous Books The most controversial and challenging passages from great books. more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey WW Ladies/Men Book Club Today joysann wrote an insightful piece on the book she read (blurb below), Schooled by Deena Bright on my website.  Deena is yet another teacher being scorned for the books she writes and actually lives close to joysann.  We also welcome new readers Alice and Autumn today.  Thanks for your contributions and I hope we [...] more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt What’s That Smell? A bookstore should smell crisp, like brand new books. There shouldn't be a smell that makes people ask you to identify it. Sadly, this week we battled this kind of smell. more » Genreville Rose Fox Link Roundup The World SF Travel Fund, nominating for the Hugos, and more. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY 'Beautiful Creatures' Premiere Earlier this week at the Beautiful Creatures premiere in Los Angeles, the authors of the books, Kami Garcia (far left) and Margaret Stohl (center) posed with their LBYR editor Julie Scheina.	Of Note Podcast: Tao of Publishing It's the Tao of Publishing in the Digital Age – the way to success flows from reconciling the combating forces of destruction and renewal. Put another way, satori is possible in a world of both clicks and mortar. more »

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