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Content / e-books
Wiley Partners with Open Textbook Initiative, OpenStax College
John Wiley this week announced a partnership with Rice University-based OpenStax College, an initiative to provide free, open textbooks. Under the deal, Wiley will deliver content from OpenStax College’s two new biology textbooks via its WileyPLUS platform along. Pilot tests are slated to begin this fall.
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Publisher News
Judge Denies Proposal to Delay Schedule in Booksellers' Suit
Judge Jed Rakoff, the judge in the recently filed Book House Of Stuyvesant Plaza, Inc. et al v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al case, deemed a proposal from the parties to delay—or at least greatly drag their heels— in the suit “completely unacceptable,” and denied the motion.
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Nancy PearlCheck It Out with Nancy Pearl: Awards Season and Carnegie Longlist
And the winner is? With the 2nd Annual ALA Carnegie Awards coming up, Nancy is deep in “book award” mode
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Copyright
Orphan Works Legislation Appears Unlikely
When the U.S. Copyright Office asked for comments on the thorny orphan works problem last October, hopes were raised that a legislative solution could be in the offing. But after hundreds of initial comments from both individuals and organizations it is now looking like meaningful orphan works legislation may not be in the cards.
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Content / e-books
Publishers Oppose Amazon Bid for '.book' Domain
In a filing this week with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the Association of American Publishers came out against a bid by Amazon to buy the .book domain name.
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Awards & Prizes
Yale Awards $1.35M to Nine Writers
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale announced the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes, a new global writer’s award created with a gift from the late Donald Windham and his partner, Sandy M. Campbell.
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Content / e-books
Ingram Adds Harlequin to MyiLibrary
Ingram's MyiLibrary platform has added over 12,000 Harlequin titles, including both frontlist and backlist, nonfiction and fiction, across multiple Harlequin imprints. MyiLibrary has over 400,000 titles in total.
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Business Deals
Cavendish Square Buys Library Titles from Marshall Cavendish
Cavendish Square, a new educational publishing company founded by Roger Rosen, has signed a deal to acquire the assets of Marshall Cavendish’s North American library operation.
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Comics
Will Eisner Week To Celebrate the Graphic Novel
Will Eisner Week features a series of events to be held March 1 to March 10 in more than a dozen cities around the country to honor the work and career of the great comics innovator.
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Industry News
Bologna at 50: Looking Back, Forging Ahead
For many children's book industry professionals around the globe, a trip to the Bologna Children's Book Fair has become a familiar, and always welcome, rite of spring.
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Libraries
Giving Them What They Should Want
Judging by the crowded sessions at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting last January in Seattle, e-books remain the most contested topic among public librarians.
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Retailing
Judge Sets Date for Apple, Amazon Discovery Hearing
As Apple continues to move ahead to defend itself against the Department of Justice’s e-book price-fixing lawsuit, the company has asked Judge Denise Cote to step in to resolve a “discovery dispute” with Amazon.
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Copyright
White House Issues Public Access Directive
The Obama Administration today used its executive power to issue a Policy Memorandum that could finally make public access to federally funded research a reality.
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Content / e-books
Macmillan DoJ Settlement Set for Mid-July Approval
Barring any surprises, the final settlement agreed to by Macmillan with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle alleged e-book price-fixing charges will be in place by early July.
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Libraries
Ingram Launches On-Demand Journals Program
Ingram Content Group will provide publishers with the tools to manage their print journals “from file set-up to print on demand to delivery.”
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Copyright
Lawsuit Seeks to Put Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain
Author and scholar Leslie Klinger has filed suit in federal court last week against the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, asking the court to declare that the famous characters of Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws.
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Interviews
The Agent: PW Talks with Sterling Lord
Is he the most interesting man in the publishing world?
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Cory Doctorow
I Can't Let You Do That, Dave
In my new novel, Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother, I explore what happens to people when their computers don’t listen to them anymore.
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PW Picks
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of February 18, 2013
This week: the woman who wouldn't die, what to do if a stranger approaches you, and how to live a life of crime.
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Copyright
Publishers Blast New Open Access Bill, FASTR
Once again, Congress has introduced a bill that would mandate public access to publicly-funded federal research, ramping up the the tension between publishers and the research community. The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) was introduced in Congress yesterday, February 14, on a bi-partisan basis. The bill would require that federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million provide the public with online access to research manuscripts stemming from publicly-funded research no later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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