Macmillan to Pay States, Consumers $20 Million

February 11, 2013

Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims In a proposed settlement disclosed Friday night, Macmillan has agreed to pay $20 million to settle state claims, and a consumer class action case, led by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, over alleged e-book price-fixing. more » What Blizzard? Busy First Day at Toy Fair 2013 "Delayed by the Storm" placards marked a few booths on the opening day of the 2013 New York International Toy Fair at the Javits Center on Sunday, including that of Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The blizzard that hit the Northeast last week came in just as exhibitors and attendees were scheduled to travel into New York on Friday and Saturday. more » Digital Delivery and Higher Education at BISG's MIP Confab In the third annual focus on Higher Ed Publishing in The Book Industry Study Group's series of Making Information Pay conferences, speakers offered a wealth of data that show a college textbook market moving slowly but surely to digital delivery, the illicit support for, and rise of, shadow digital libraries and growing popularity of digital learning systems offering interactivity and analytics as well traditional content. more » DiTech Launches Indian E-bookstore Store Mumbai-based DiTech Process Solutions, an end-to-end publishing and content management services company, launched educational e-bookstore StudyeBuddy on February 8. StudyeBuddy is a digital home for books, reference materials, worksheets and other resource materials created by leading publishing companies for Indian and international colleges and institutions of professional studies. 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. Tracking Amazon: Oprah Effect Strikes Again Northfield Publishing's The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman has already sold over 900,000 copies according to Nielsen BookScan, and that number will likely be very close to 1 million after the effects of Chapman's appearance February 10 on OWN's Life Class are tallied. more » » Obituary: Mark Linz Werner Mark Linz, founder of Continuum and director of American University in Cairo Press for more than 25 years, died February 9. Linz also held positions with McGraw-Hill and Seabury Press. more » » Job Moves: February 11, 2013 Brandi Larsen has joined Penguin's Book Country as director. She was previously with the Chicago Tribune, where she focused the company's content for mobile devices and tablets. In her new role at Book Country, Larsen will focus on growing the community and attracting more writers to self-publish using the company's new e-book publishing tools. Jonathan Perry is no longer director of TIMS Bibliographic Processes at Ingram Content Group. He can be reached at jonathanperry@comcast.net. more » » THE ROUNDUP "Daddy" is Mommy: Is Sylvia Plath's famous poem really about her mother? Can Bookstores Charge for Browsing?: HarperCollins c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley has said the idea of the bookshop as a book club, charging for browsing, is "not that insane," given the level of threat faced by the general bookshop. 50 Most Influential Books by Women: The Guardian counts them down. Nomi Raises $3M to Fight Amazon: Rather than compete with Amazon on price alone, Nomi wants to help retailers provide better service by tracking consumer behavior across in-store and online channels. Bookin' It to Close: The Minnesota bookstore will close its doors with a going out of business sale. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air February 11, 2013: Danny Gregory, Laurie Puhn Danny Gregory, author of A Kiss Before You Go (Chronicle, 978-1-4521-0194-1), will be on NPR's Here and Now. Laurie Puhn, J.D., author of Fight Less, Love More: 5 Minute Conversations to Change Your Relationship without Blowing Up or Giving In (Rodale, 9781609618896)  will be on Imus in the Morning. 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 Bill Spence Loves Writing Romance Bill Spence, 89 from England has been writing romance novels for the past 20 years under the name of Jessica Blair. more » ShelfTalker Elizabeth Bluemle Books You’d Unpack First If you moved house right now, and could unpack just one shelf of books to christen your new home, what would be on that shelf? more » Genreville Rose Fox Link Roundup The World SF Travel Fund, nominating for the Hugos, and more. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Rocha in Edina Personal finance expert Carrie Rocha was at a recent book signing for her book Pocket Your Dollars (Bethany House) with Barnes and Noble's Lin Solsbury in Edina, Minnesota.	Of Note Janis Ian and Audible Win Grammy Audible Studios has received its first-ever Grammy Award for its production of Janis Ian's memoir, Society's Child: My Autobiography. The audiobook of Society's Child, in which Ian performs every song she references in the course of her narration, was three years in the making and recorded entirely live. more »

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