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    Will the Agency Model Survive?

    For publishers, negotiating terms of sale with Amazon has always been difficult. But reports last week of Amazon’s hardball tactics with the Hachette Book Group suggest that this year’s negotiations could be among the most brutal yet.

  • Publisher News

    Founder of Just-Launched Authors Alliance Talks to PW

    PW contributing editor Peter Brantley talks with UC Berkeley law professor Pamela Samuelson, founding member of a new author advocacy group, the Authors Alliance.

  • Publisher News

    Much at Stake in Amazon-HBG Fight

    Among the issues in dispute between Amazon and the Hachette Book Group are negotiations over new e-book terms, sources familiar with the matter said. And publishers also see the latest fight with Amazon as part of an ongoing battle to retain retail diversity.

  • Common Core

    Cut to the Core: Which Types of Materials Are Librarians Interested in Obtaining to Support Common Core?

    It seems the Common Core evokes some sort of reaction, good or bad, in everyone these days.

  • Libraries

    Alive and Clicking: Reference Books 2014

    For the last two decades, the talk has been that library reference is dead. Is it time to change the conversation?

  • Content / e-books

    Apple Asks Judge to Send E-book Case to Appeals Court

    Apple attorneys argue that sending the matter to the Second Circuit would “save judicial resources by potentially avoiding the need for a costly trial.”

  • Publisher News

    Pretrial Schedule Proposed in Author Solutions Case

    The parties have submitted a proposed pretrial schedule that would likely not have fraud claims against the self-publishing service provider ready for trial until after 2015.

  • Libraries

    Check It Out With Michael Kelley: Open Access Publishing

    Can a group of libraries help to pioneer a new path in academic publishing?

  • Libraries

    ALA Summit Under Way at Library of Congress

    ALA executive director Keith Fiels told PW the event was designed to help "get in front of things that might affect libraries in the long term.”

  • Libraries

    Sari Feldman Elected 2015-2016 ALA President

    Sari Feldman, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, will lead the American Library Association for the 2015-16 term.

  • Industry News

    Nonfiction, Common Core, and More: An ABPA Panel

    Spirits were high during a candid and informal ABPA discussion about shifts and trends in the children's publishing industry, held on April 22 in New York City.

  • Content / e-books

    Open Road, HarperCollins Back in Court

    HarperCollins and Open Road were back in court last week, as the parties have not worked out a final resolution to their copyright dispute over Open Road’s e-book edition of Jean Craighead George’s "Julie of the Wolves."

  • Frankfurt Book Fair

    Changes Coming to Frankfurt Book Fair

    The biggest change, set to take effect in 2015, is that English-language and American exhibitors will move from their longtime home in Hall 8.0, closer to “the heart of the action” in Halls 6.0 and 4.0.

  • Content / e-books

    States Accuse Apple of Stonewalling E-Book Case

    In a blistering opposition motion, 33 state attorneys have made their feelings known to the Second Circuit: Apple, they say, is blatantly stonewalling.

  • Content / e-books

    Apple Wins Temporary Stay from Second Circuit

    The Second Circuit has issued an administrative stay while a three-judge panel reviews Judge Denise Cote’s decision to proceed with the damages phase of Apple's e-book price-fixing case.

  • Libraries

    The P&L Sheet: My Year of Reading Quickly

    This past year I served on the selection committee for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction—a task I undertook with a good amount of dread.

  • Content / e-books

    Apple Denied a Stay; Trial to Remain in New York

    In separate orders this week, the court denied Apple’s request for a stay of all proceedings pending appeal, as well as its bid to have the damages trial moved from New York.

  • Publisher News

    Book Industry Weighs in on Key Free Speech Case

    A coalition of publishers, booksellers and libraries argue that pre-enforcement challenges are "a critical tool for protecting free speech."

  • Comics

    How to Throw a Comic Con at Your Library

    Over the past few years, there's been an explosion in attendance and enthusiasm for comic book conventions around the world. At the same time, graphic novels have become one of the hottest categories at U.S. libraries.

  • Content / e-books

    Apple Loses Another E-book Decision

    Judge Denise Cote yesterday rejected Apple’s November 2013 motion to dismiss the states’ class action claims for lack of standing.

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