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Content / e-booksALA 2013: Libraries to Offer Monthly 'Top 10' Book List
To start, LibraryReads will feature ten adult titles each month that library staff “have read, have loved, and cannot wait to share” with their patrons.
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Content / e-books
ALA 2013: ALA Kicks Up E-Book Advocacy Efforts with Author Campaign
The campaign, Authors for Library Ebooks, kicks off with public support from three bestselling authors Cory Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin and Jodi Picoult.
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Industry News
Pew Survey Shows Power of Print
Despite their comfort with technology, most young Americans still read and borrow printed books, and value libraries and library services.
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Publisher News
Penguin, Author Solutions Seek Dismissal of Potential Class Action Suit
Penguin and its subsidiary Author Solutions have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against them that alleges fraudulent business practices.
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Content / e-books
Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial
After more than two years of legal maneuvering, Apple’s fate is now in the hands of federal judge Denise Cote, and the publishing industry’s long legal nightmare over the alleged price-fixing of e-books is all but over.
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Content / e-books
In Parting Shot, Government Paints Apple as Amazon Copycat
With the director of Apple’s iBookstore in the U.S. Robert MacDonald on the stand, U.S. attorney Lawrence Buterman painted Apple’s iBookstore as a copycat of other digital book efforts—including Amazon’s.
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Content / e-books
For Apple, Price-Fixing Trial Closes With a Win
In the final moments of Apple’s e-book price-fixing trial, federal Judge Denise Cote uttered the words Apple attorneys have surely longed to hear, saying the issues over the course of the trial “have somewhat shifted.”
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Content / e-books
Eddy Cue Takes the Stand at Apple Trial
If there was a conspiracy to push Amazon off its $9.99 e-book pricing, Apple was not part of it, testified Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, in his long-anticipated turn on the stand at Apple’s e-book trial.
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Content / e-books
Apple Trial: Rupert Murdoch Wanted to ‘Screw’ Amazon
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray couldn’t recall very much of his early dealings with Apple as the company negotiated its entry into the e-book business, but his testimony suggests he may have been the shrewdest negotiator of the five publisher CEOs.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2013: All Our Coverage
Our complete coverage of ALA 2013, including a survey of the main events; the speakers; the readings, discussions, and presentations; the panels, and more.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2013: Cut to the Core
PW's new Common Core columnists, Margaux DelGuidice and Rose Luna, preview Common Core programming at ALA.
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Interviews
ALA 2013: The Golden Age of Piracy: PW Talks with Robert Spoo
As a new copyright reform movement gains momentum, and international treaties propose to “normalize” copyright laws globally, it is amazing to see how history does repeat itself.
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Interviews
ALA 2013: The Library of 2020 Will Be…
Wondering about the future of libraries? You don’t need a crystal ball—just pick up Joe Janes’s new book.
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Shows & Events
ALA 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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