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RetailingWill 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.”
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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.
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Libraries
Check It Out With Michael Kelley: Open Access Publishing
Can a group of libraries help to pioneer a new path in academic publishing?
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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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