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Conferences
TOC 2013: Tim O’Reilly Tells Publishers to ‘Work on Stuff that Matters’
For the first time in three years, Tim O’Reilly stood on stage and addressed Tools of Change, the conference he started seven years ago, kicking off the show with a keynote talk that offered attendees some perspective on how far digital publishing has come, along with a healthy dose of optimism for where it’s heading.
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ConferencesLive from Tools of Change 2013: The Keynote
PW presents the livestreamed keynote speech from the 2013 O'Reilly Tools of Change conference:
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Content / e-books
PW Online and On-Air for the Week of February 11, 2013
A snapshop of the PW Universe this week.
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Nancy Pearl
Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: Books on the Balkans
Q: While many of us were busy preparing to travel to Seattle for ALA Midwinter, I see by your tweets and Facebook posts recently that you’ve been in Bosnia meeting librarians, teachers, and students. Can you tell us more about what you did there?
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Content / e-books
Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims
In a proposed settlement disclosed Friday night, Macmillan has agreed to pay $20 million to settle state claims, and a consumer class action case, led by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, over alleged e-book price-fixing.
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Libraries
Building Momentum for Little Free Libraries
It’s been four years since international business consultant Todd Bol constructed a wooden replica of a one-room schoolhouse, filled it with books, and mounted it on a post in his front yard in a suburb of metropolitan Minneapolis, Hudson, Wis., in tribute to his late mother.
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Publisher News
Judge Approves State E-book Settlement
Following a swift, 15-minute fairness hearing Friday morning, Judge Denise Cote quickly approved a $70-million plus settlement with 54 states and territories to settle price-fixing charges against five publishers.
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Industry News
Should Booksellers Enter the School Library Business?
At last fall's regional trade shows, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop and Turtleback Books each made the case that indies could and should offer a broader range of educational services aimed directly at school librarians, and subsequently took steps to make it happen.
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Content / e-books
New Journal Publisher PeerJ Ready to Launch
PeerJ runs on an author membership model instead of using a more traditional "author pays" (APC) approach, and its attempt to re-engineer scholarly publishing could dramatically lowers costs for producing and distributing academic articles.
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Awards & Prizes
Princeton University Press Wins Top Honor at PROSE Awards
Officials from the Association of American Publishers have announced that the 2012 R.R. Hawkins Award has been presented to Princeton University Press for Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD.
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Industry News
For Libraries, the Common Core Presents Extraordinary Opportunity
The Common Core was a hot topic at the ALA midwinter meeting in Seattle, specifically at a standing-room only "discussion group" where more than 80 librarians gathered to learn more about the new state standards, and to share their own experiences thus far.
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Shows & Events
ALA Midwinter 2013: Sunny in Seattle
After a tough few years of lagging budgets, e-book battles, and questions about their future, there was a palpable sense of momentum among librarians at the American Library Association’s 2013 Midwinter Meeting held January 25–29 in Seattle.
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Libraries
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of February 4, 2013
This week, Maurice Sendak's final book, body snatchers, and two books of poetry. Plus: a Woody Guthrie novel edited by Johnny Depp.
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Copyright
U.S. Attorneys May Weigh in On GSU E-Reserves Case
In a brief filed last week in the Georgia State e-reserves case, U.S. attorneys asked for a 21-day extension "in which to file any amicus brief in support of appellants, or in support of neither party."
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Shows & Events
ALA Midwinter 2013: ALA Creates E-book Scorecard
When it comes to e-books, publishers may soon be getting report cards from libraries. That’s because, late last week, in conjunction with the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, the American Library Association released a “Business Model Scorecard” to help libraries evaluate the myriad licensing terms under which e-books are being offered to libraries.
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Shows & Events
ALA Midwinter 2013: In Keynote, Caroline Kennedy Rallies Librarians
In her keynote speech at ALA, Caroline Kennedy called librarians "levers for positive change in their communities."
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Shows & Events
ALA Midwinter 2013: Northwest Authors and the Role of Libraries
For all the talk about the changing digital world and its impact on the future of libraries and reading, the opening session of the 2013 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting focused on a subject librarians know well: authors.
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Retailing
Macmillan to Begin E-book Library Lending Pilot
Macmillan has announced that it will begin its first e-book library lending program by the end of the first quarter. Using the agency model and working with a number of distributors, Macmillan will offer libraries over 1,200 backlist e-books from its Minotaur Books imprint.
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Content / e-books
ProQuest to Acquire Ebook Library
In a move that will further expand its e-book footprint in the library market, ProQuest today formally announced the acquisition of Ebook Library (EBL), a pioneering e-book provider in the library market.
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Interviews
Scanning the Future: PW Talks with Jeff John Roberts
You know the end is near for the long-running Google litigation when the books start coming out.
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