March 15, 2013
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| Judge Fast-Tracking Bookseller Suit Judge Jed Rakoff yesterday set an aggressive schedule in the Indie booksellers' suit against Amazon and the big six publishers, scheduling oral arguments for April and putting the case on track for an October trial. more »  Medallion Media Group and Medallion Press have released MMG Sidekick app, an e-book reading app that will allow consumers to buy and read Medallion Press titles as well as DRM-free titles. The app also comes installed with Medallion Press's TREEBook technology, reading software designed to enhance the reading experience by supporting time triggers and multiple-plot lines embedded in specially designed Medallion e-books. more »  SOPA and PIPA are "dead in the water," oral arguments are coming in Google's appeal of the ruling in the class action standing in the Authors Guild's lawsuit against Google, and a take on the Capitol Records lawsuit against ReDigi were some of the issues touched on by speakers at Cowan Liebowitz & Latman's 24th publishing seminar held in New York March 12. more »  Ignatius Press Enters Pope Book Race The second entrant in the new Pope book sweepstakes is Ignatius Press, which on Thursday announced the forthcoming publication of Francis, Pope of a New World by Andrea Tornielli, a biography to release April 30. The $19.95 hardcover will draw from the statements and writings of the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, including material from right before the conclave in which he was elected pope. more »
 Seattle YA Authors Organize Grassroots Tour The "You Are Next" tour, a nod to what the group calls "the next generation of books for the next generation of readers," launched in January, with visits to schools and bookstores in Las Vegas, and San Francisco, and Portland, Ore. The touring authors – Kevin Emerson, Cat Patrick, Sean Beaudoin, and Martha Brockenbrough – are friends who met through the Seattle writing community. more » »   Previewing the NYC Teen Author Festival More than 90 YA authors have signed on for the fifth annual NYC Teen Author Festival. The event takes place from March 18 through March 24 at public venues and schools around the city, and culminates in the "No Foolin' Mega-Signing," with some 50 authors signing books in just three hours. more » » The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression has hired two consultants to manage its major fundraising projects--the auction of original children's book art and an affiliate program for sideline producers who contribute to ABFFE a portion of their sales to independent bookstores. more » »
50 Shades of Kate: Kate Moss reads from the book. A Book Is a Start-Up: The part of the publishing world that considers a book as a technological enterprise. Why Does Google Want to Be Amazon?: Seeking Alpha: There has been some buzz recently that Google is targeting Amazon and moving in on their turf so to speak with some of their new offerings. This is entirely wrong and if anything, Google should be the one looking over their shoulder at Amazon. New Indie Bookstore Promotions: Following on the success of last year's holiday season multi-publisher promotion, Thanks for Shopping Indie, four new promotions created just for independent bookstores are launching this spring under the banner "Celebrate (With) Indies." Tan Twan Eng Wins Man Asian Prize: Malaysian novelist impresses judges with tale about memory and forgetting set in the shadow of WWII.
 Authors on the Air March 15, 2013: Anat Admati Anat Admati was on NPR's "Morning Edition" for The Banker's New Clothes (Princeton University Press, 978-0691156842). Listen to the segment here. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash This Is the Worst Book Cover Ever Where Stephen King and hairspray meet. more » Barbara Vey Anniversary Bash 6: Contemporary, Historical, Erotica, E-books, Audio Friday brings us to Downton Abbey, a fictional Yorkshire country estate of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era. more » Josie Leavitt A Great Nonfiction Event "Anybody can write about anything": author Tanya Lee Stone visits the Flying Pig Bookstore and talks about nonfiction. more » Rose Fox Random House Relents Alibi and Hydra will give authors a choice of contracts. more »
 Fire Alarm at HarvardDuring an event for Da Capo's Fire and Forget at Harvard Bookstore last week, the fire alarm went off, and attendees had to go outside while the Cambridge fire department came. In the photo's back row are: co-editor Roy Scranton, co-editor Matt Gallagher, contributor Brian Turner, and contributor Colby Buzzell. In the front are contributor Siobhan Fallon and contributor Mariette Kalinowski.
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LBYR Joins Storia Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is the latest publisher to add some of its titles to Storia, Scholastic's classroom-based, teacher-recommended e-reading app for kids. A selection of LBYR books, from picture books to young adult novels, will be available on Storia in late spring. more » With the tide of e-book sales rising fast, the number of million-selling digital titles has likewise swelled. That's good news for authors and their publishers, and lest we forget, heartening too for all makers of devices. Listen here. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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