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Shows & EventsALA 2013: 11 Rules for a Great ALA Experience
PW contributing editor Brian Kenney gives his tips for a successful, lifelong relationship with ALA.
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Content / e-books
Apple Attacks Google at Trial
For more than an hour, Apple attorney Orin Snyder aggressively dismantled Google's Director of Content Partnerships, but failed to get Amazon officials off their story.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2013: Sweet Home Chicago!
The 2013 American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held in tChicago, where the ALA is based, from June 27–July 2.
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Content / e-books
First Witness Testifies in Apple E-book Trial
Under questioning from U.S. Attorney Mark Ryan, Apple's associate general counsel, Kevin Saul, insisted that Apple’s consideration and eventual embrace of the agency model came only in response to publisher suggestions, as a way to get deals done.
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Libraries
Small Towns, Broad Tastes: Focus on Romance 2013
Smalltown cozy romances often portray quiet communities where a chaste kiss is looked on as something shocking, but readers in actual small towns are considerably more open-minded, picking up everything from Amish romance to kinky erotica.
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Libraries
Checking Out Romance: Focus on Romance 2013
It's a love match between librarians and romance publishers.
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Industry News
BEA 2013: Getting Behind the Common Core
At a panel, participants stressed that the Common Core is moving beyond "the cut-and-paste" methods of previous generations.
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Content / e-books
At Hearing, Judge Says She is Leaning Against Apple
At a hearing yesterday in Manhattan, Judge Denise Cote said her “tentative view,” was that the government will be able to prove Apple’s guilt in coordinating a conspiracy to raise e-book prices.
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Content / e-books
Penguin Finally Settles Price-Fixing Charges, Will Avoid Trial
Penguin officials, along with Attorneys General for 33 states and the consumer class, announced this morning that they have finally settled their outstanding e-book price-fixing charges—for a hefty $75 million.
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Content / e-books
New ALA Supplement Looks at 'Faustian Bargains' of Digital
Contributors include Publishers Weekly contributing editor Peter Brantley, director of scholarly communication at Hypothes.is, whose piece, “The Unpackaged Book,” examines ways in which the “fundamental model of libraries, publishers, distributors, and books will need further re-engineering.”
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Content / e-books
Amazon Fights to Keep Secrets in E-book Trial
Amazon attorneys filed a letter with the court asking that it be allowed to redact sensitive business information about its Kindle e-book program gathered as evidence for the upcoming Apple price-fixing trial.
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Nancy Pearl
Check It Out with Nancy Pearl: The Future of Libraries
Q: Recently, here in New York, there has been a great deal of public outcry over plans to redo the New York Public Library’s Main Library. As technology changes the world we live in, it certainly seems like we’re seeing the “future of libraries” debate actively play out in discussions about redesigning library space.
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People
OCLC Names Skip Prichard President and CEO
OCLC has announced that Skip Prichard will succeed Jay Jordan as president and CEO on July 1.
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Content / e-books
Penguin Attorneys Recycle Failed Arbitration Bid
In a 2012 ruling, Judge Denise Cote forcefully shot down Penguin’s arguments for compelling arbitration in the price-fixing case. So, why re-file the motion to compel arbitration? To preserve the issue for appeal—yet another tantalizing hint that Penguin is not settling, and is prepared to go to trial.
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Content / e-books
Pre-Trial Filings Set the Stage for the Apple-DoJ Showdown
In its joint filing with the states, the DoJ called the long-running e-book price-fixing battle “an unremarkable and obvious price-fixing case,” and alleges that under the law Apple’s conduct made it the “ringmaster” of the conspiracy.
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Content / e-books
Google, Authors Guild Back in Court
The long-running case over Google’s library book scanning has been stayed since September, 2012, pending a review of its class action certification.
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Libraries
So You Think You Want to Be a Librarian?
Most people’s knowledge of librarianship is a mash-up of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Desk Set, some warm and fuzzy memories from an elementary school class visit, Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, even fuzzier memories of all-nighters in their college libraries, and maybe a high-minded article or two about the Digital Public Library of America.
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Libraries
How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library
According to old stereotypes, it shouldn’t work—serious librarians should want nothing to do with the raucous, pulp world of comics—and for a long time it didn’t.
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Libraries
Pew Report: Parents Depend on Libraries to Nurture Reading Habits
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reports, in its latest study, that "fully 94% of parents say libraries are important for their children, with access to books at the the top of library services." The report continues: “Libraries," parents say, “help inculcate their children’s love of reading and books.”
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Content / e-books
Hachette Makes Full E-book Catalogue Available to Libraries
Following a pilot project, Hachette has announced that it will make its full catalogue available to libraries to lend in e-book form. ALA officials hail the move as a sign of "real progress."
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