A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: More BEA Wrap-Ups; Authors on the (Far) Edge of Fame; Feds, Comic Book Publishers Don't Find Florida Man's Free Websites So Funny; NYT on Bill Clegg; Amazon vs Apple; Indigo Profit Drops 74% Thanks to Kobo; Experts Say Texas Textbooks Are Unlikely to Spread.
BEA Wrap-Ups: More reports on BEA, from the Dallas Morning News, the LA Times, and Reuters.
Authors on the (Far) Edge of Fame
In the WSJ, Ralph Gardners writes about attending BEA as an author.
Feds, Comic Book Publishers Don't Find Fla. Man's Free Web Sites So Funny
Six Web sites run by a Florida man violated federal copyright laws by allowing visitors to view "Batman" and other comic books for free without permission from the publishers or authors, government lawyers charge in a federal lawsuit.
The NYT looks at Bill Clegg, who, after being on this side of book publishing as the boyishly charming agent for big-name writers like Nicole Krauss and the poet Anne Carson, took a less scandalous plunge into self-absorption to write a tell-all book, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man.
Amazon Vs. Apple Be Damned: Publishers Pine For A Universal E-Book Format
Giants and upstarts of publishing gathered at the annual BookExpo America last week agreed e-books will transform the business but believe the big change will come when there is a standard format across which all e-books can be published and shared.
Indigo Books Profit Drops 74% on E-Reader Costs
Indigo Books & Music, Canada's largest book retailer, said on Monday its quarterly profit dropped 74 percent, hurt by expenses related to the launch of the Kobo e-reader.
Experts: Texas Textbooks Are Unlikely to Spread
Critics fear the new, more conservative curriculum in Texas could spread elsewhere. But publishing experts say those concerns are overblown.
