Google's e-book deal could slow rise of Amazon Kindle in Europe

Google's e-book deal could slow rise of Amazon Kindle in Europe
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12, 2012, 11:11am No Comments Google announced a major deal this week with Frenchauthors and publishers that clears the way for the sale of millions of e-books that have been caught in legal limbo until now. The deal could spur digital publishing in ...

Google inks deal with French over digitizing books
Politico
Google's settlement of lawsuits brought by French publishers and authors signals a possible direction for similar deals to settle litigation in the US so that the search giant can digitize rare and out-of-print books. The French Publishers Association ...

Politico

Sainsbury's invests in e-book group
The Press Association
Sainsbury's has launched itself into the e-book market with a deal to buy HMV's stake in online digital book retailer Anobii. The UK's third largest supermarket will pitch itself against the likes of online titan Amazon with the acquisition of the ...

Books reviewed in New York Times are 'predominantly by white authors'
The Guardian
Nearly 90% of the books reviewed by the New York Times last year were written by white authors, according to writer Roxane Gay. The statistic was revealed after Gay's research assistant spent 16 hours a week for 14 weeks going through the race and ...

The Guardian

Sainsbury enters e-book market with Anobii buy
Reuters
* Sainsbury buys HMV's Anobii stake for nominal 1 stg * Firm driving into online and digital entertainment market LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - Britain's third largest supermarket group J Sainsbury has entered the e-book and social network market with ...

Read the difference? Sainsbury's to take on Amazon Kindle as it enters the e ...
Daily Mail
The company paid a nominal £1 for HMV's shareholding in the social network, which is aimed at readers and currently has over 600000 users worldwide and a library of 60000 e-books. Rivals: J Sainsbury today entered the e-book and social network market ...

Daily Mail

Google, French publishers settle book clash
BusinessWeek
Internet search giant Google and a group of French book publishers say they've resolved a long-running dispute over Google's book scanning and indexing efforts. Google and France's National Publishers Association said in a joint statement Monday that ...

Bill protecting authors' profits pushed forward
Ynetnews
A bill aiming to protect the profits incurred by Israeli authors was pushed forward this week by winning the approval of the Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs. If passed, the legislation – the collaborative work of the Culture and Sports ...

Google's Digital Book Project Sees Settlement With French Parties
RedOrbit
In Google's bid to create a digital book economy – way ahead of eBook publishers such as Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and other creators of eBook readers – a few lawsuits cropped up in the US and internationally. This week a settlement was reached ...

RedOrbit

Enjoy your books while you can afford it!
Jerusalem Post
The bill aims to prevent bookstores from offering discounts on new books for a certain number of years after their publication. The false logic behind this bill is to guarantee revenues toauthors, so they can create and preserve the national ...

The e-book market: What do retailers need to know?
Retail Week
Sainsbury's acquisition of HMV's stake in Anobii has thrown the spotlight on the e-book market. Retail Week takes a look Sainsbury's today bought a 64% stake in Anobii – an online platform which allows users to share book reviews using social ...

Google, France in book scan deal
Boston Globe
By Eric Pfanner Disputes over rights and other issues have held back e-book sales in France and much of Europe. PARIS — Even as a dispute over Google's digitalbook project deepens in the United States, the Internet company said Monday that it had ...

Boston Globe

Analysis: What does Sainsbury's e-book acquisition mean for the market?
Retail Week
Sainsbury's head of entertainment online Mark Bennett told Retail Week the tie-up will start out as a “light integration” with co-branding on each others' websites and promotion of Anobii e-books in store. Ultimately Sainsbury's will look to offer as ...

Google reaches deal with French publishers on book scans
Bangkok Post
Google has reached a deal with French publishers and authors on scanningbooks and putting them online, ending a six-year legal battle over copyrights, publishers' group SNE said Monday. The screen of a computer shows a GoogleBook search on the home ...

Bangkok Post

Google and French authors, publishers settle
The Bookseller
Google and French publishers and authors have officially ended six years of legal wrangles with the announcement of a framework agreement for the US search engine to index and sell scanned out-of-print French books with prior permission.

The Bookseller

Sainsbury's gunning for e-book market with deal for stake in digital ...
This is Money
By Harry Glass Sainsbury's is muscling into the e-book market with a deal to buy HMV's stake in online digital book retailer and social network Anobii. The UK's third largest supermarket will pitch itself against online titan Amazon with the ...

Open Letter to the New York Times Book Review
Huffington Post
Last Tuesday night, I had the pleasure of being surrounded by several hundred fellow authors, publishers, representatives of publishing houses, editors, judges and others who love books. This annual event coincides with Book Expo America, ...

Sainsbury's pays £1 entrance, heads into ebook club
Register
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author British grocery chain Sainsbury's has entered the ebook market by snapping up HMV's stake in Anobii for a nominal £1. The retailing group said that slurping HMV Group's share and investing in the ...

Cameron Diaz to pen nutrition book for teens
New York Daily News
Although no formal publishing deal is currently in place, the 39 year-old actress has reportedly signed with a literary agent. "This book is not about weight, it's about making the right choices," a publishing source told the site.

New York Daily News

Author: Greig doesn't deserve a break
Boston Herald
In his book, Foley writes of going to Greig's house in Squantum in 1995 to finally arrest Bulger: “When we showed up at her door, she refused to let us in. 'No warrant?' she sneered. 'Then go (expletive) yourselves.' Then she slammed the door in our ...

Google Allies With French Authors, Shuts Out Apple and Amazon
Mashable
The lawsuit, brought against Google in 2006 by the French Publishers' Association and the Societe des Gens de Lettres (SGDL), an association of 6000 French-speaking authors, contested Google's efforts to scan books and make them available freely on the ...

Sainsbury's is set to take on Amazon with an e-book venture
Inquirer
The British retailer paid just a quid for the e-book company, which boasts over 600000 users, owns a library of 60000 digital books and is available on a range of e-reader, smartphone and tablet devices. The social network side of Anobii enables users ...

Cameron Diaz, Author? Actress Writing Nutrition Book to Help Teen Girls
E! Online
Cameron Diaz, Author? Actress Writing Nutrition Book to Help Teen Girls Cameron Diaz is quite literally taking a page from the book of her good friend Gwyneth Paltrow. Because just like her brand-expanding pal before her, the actress is dipping her ...

E! Online

The Authors Law - a social injustice
Haaretz
I'm talking about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who all of a sudden decided to abandon his free-market ideology and support the Authors Law, because of a cynical political calculation. Netanyahu knows that as soon as he put his weight behind the ...

Google reaches deal with French book publishers over out-of-print eBooks
ITProPortal
The ongoing battle between Google and French book publishers came to an end yesterday, when the search engine giant announced an agreement that will return out-of-print stories to the reading public. "We are forging partnerships that we believe will ...

2012 Indie Book Award Winners Announced
Sacramento Bee
These statistics do not even take into account the number of e-books published. To help Indieauthors and publishers reach a wider audience, the top 60 books in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards will be reviewed by New York literary agent ...

Windsor Public Library puts costly 'book machine' on hold
Windsor Star
By Doug Schmidt, The Windsor Star June 12, 2012 WINDSOR, Ont. -- A revolutionary "bookmachine" that had been scheduled to be officially unveiled today at Windsor Public Library has been put into storage, with troubling questions swirling over how the ...

New Ebook Player? UK Supermarket Giant Sainsbury's Buys HMV's ...
By Ingrid Lunden
A sudden, but perhaps unsurprising, bit of e-book M&A today in the UK: the music and entertainment company HMV is selling its 64 percent stake in e-book retailer Anobii to the supermarket chain Sainsbury's, for the princely sum of £1 ($1.55). The deal will ... The acquisition is a clear move on the part of Sainsbury's to compete more directly with its big UK supermarket rival Tesco, which has its own e-books portal and resells e-reading devices like the Kindle from Amazon. Tesco's has ...
TechCrunch

Indie author gets sticker shock from Amazon "delivery fees" - Boing ...
By Cory Doctorow
The book had an exciting launch and the sales on Amazon were really high, but he got some sticker-shock when he found out that Amazon was charging very high "delivery fees" for his books, even when the buyers were buying from WiFi. He calculated the book-delivery markup over the rate Amazon charges for website hosting and concluded that Amazon charges authors a 129000% markup for moving a file from A to B. Apple did better, but are total jerks about it. B&N didn't sell ...
Boing Boing

Freakonomics » One Good Book Cover Deserves Another
By Stephen J. Dubner
I admire both of these books, and their authors, and even their covers: FWIW, both Tim ... Jared Foran, an orthopedic surgeon in Denver, is a co-author of a new study called "Patient Perception of Physician Reimbursement... Read More ...
Freakonomics

The Best Free eBook From iTunes [COMIC]
By Matt Silverman
Sometimes the funniest tweets lend themselves to illustration — a 140-character comic, if you will. That's where Twaggies comes in. Twaggies illustrators work 'round the clock to turn would-be captions into hilarious comics. Now you can find ...
Mashable

'Little Dorito' and More: Suggestions for Literary Product Placement ...
By By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
A blogger's recent discovery that a 99-cent e-book version of “War and Peace” sold in Barnes and Noble's Nook Store had replaced every instance of the ordinary English word “kindle” with the word “Nook” prompted much online tittering about ...
ArtsBeat

Guy Laramee's carved book landscapes | TeleRead: News and ...
By Paul Biba
Well, can't do this with ebooks. Go to Colossal Art & Design to see some more absolutely fantastic pictures. ... Gerrit on "Kobo-owner Rakuten to sell Japanese e-books to Japanese consumers from Toronto - Posted on June 12, 2012. "A DPLA ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Neverending Shades of Grey; A Memorial for Maurice Sendak
The Atlantic Wire
In a book world that is currently all about EL James (real name: Erika Leonard, profession: writer of that book, Fifty Shades of Grey, and its sequels) there is more about EL James. Remember, the book was Twilight fan fiction in the first place.

The Atlantic Wire

Maureen Dowd: Catholic Church hierarchy has lost track of right and wrong
Contra Costa Times
By Maureen Dowd Sister Margaret Farley, who taught Christian ethics at the Yale Divinity School and author of "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, " in an undated handout photo. The Vatican's doctrinal office on Monday denounced Farley ...

Cameron Diaz, Book: Actress Writing Nutrition Book
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Cameron Diaz is quite literally taking a page from the book of her good friend Gwyneth Paltrow.... STAR Magazine: Hottest Celeb website :: Breaking News :: Cameron Diaz to become latest celebrity author ...
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Publisher of The Nation warns of perpetual drone war | The Raw Story
By Eric W. Dolan
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, on Monday warned against approaching the fight against terrorism as a war. “This could be a perpetual war,” she told Viewpoint host Eliot Spitzer. She said the destruction wrought by ...
The Raw Story

Book Review: The Last Refuge | Israellycool
By Aussie Dave
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (July 3, 2012). I can't say I was familiar with author Ben Coes before his marketing manager contacted me, offering me an advance copy of his latest book. Neither was I familar with the protoganist of his books, ...
Israellycool

GigaOM Launches Digital Book Imprint - GalleyCat
By Dianna Dilworth
GigaOM Launches Digital Book Imprint. ... The imprint will publish digital books about “people, technologies and trends shaping the evolution of technology and media.” The imprint launches with ... The imprint will put out 1-2 eBooks a month.
GalleyCat

Flavorwire » The Childhood Homes of 20 Famous Authors
We think it's rather fascinating to peer at some of our favorite authors' earliest ... Click through to check out our collection of famous authors' childhood homes, ...
www.flavorwire.com/.../the-childhood-homes-of-20-famous-a...

Build Books With CSS3; Design a Responsive Résumé – Jeffrey ...
Design books with CSS3; craft a responsive web résumé. ... now brings us the Paged Media Module, which targets print book formatting. ... eBook Operations Manager at O'Reilly Media, explains how to build books with ... Learn how to author a clean résumé in HTML5/CSS3 that scales well to ... Download free e- book.
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Smashwords — Marketing Your Own Book — A book by Kenneth ...
Do you wish marketing your book were someone else's job? Have you had a book published only to be disappointed with the publisher's marketing? This book ...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/171290

Notes On The Printers Row Lit Fest
Gapers Block
When Barnes and Noble expressed interest in stocking the magazine, he remembered thinking, "No offense, but we don't really need you." Eventually he relented, "but we insisted on giving them the same discount as everyone else.

Gapers Block

Summer reading: Library programs encourage kids to hit the books during vacation
San Jose Mercury News
WATSONVILLE - A steady stream of young readers poured into Watsonville Public Library's downtown branch Monday, the first day of the first week of summer vacation for most Pajaro Valley children. Sure, they were looking forward to days spent playing ...

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