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Content / e-books
No Change, But Random House Says It Is “Actively Reviewing” Library E-book Policy
After Penguin announced this week that it was pulling its frontlist e-book titles from libraries and disabling all Kindle library lends, Random House remains the only “Big Six” publisher to embrace library sales of e-book editions.
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Content / e-books
Citing "Security Concerns" Penguin Pulls New Titles from OverDrive
Penguin officials have confirmed that its latest titles will not be available for library lending in e-book editions via OverDrive.
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ComicsX-Men Writer Chris Claremont Donates Archive to Columbia University
Renowned comics writer and novelist Chris Claremont, best known for his many years writing Marvel’s X-Men and Uncanny X-Men series, has reached an agreement to donate his archives to Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Nancy Pearl
Check It Out with Nancy Pearl: November 2011 - Book Awards
Last month’s column on the state of traditional book reviews and on “outsider” and self-published books drew some great reactions, a couple we thought we’d share. Plus Nancy talks book awards.
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Publisher News
ProQuest Unveils New Organization, Cuts Some Management Positions
ProQuest this week announced that it has reorganized into six business units, and named a new executive team. In addition, sources tell PW that 40 jobs have been eliminated across the company, which employs some 1,800 people.
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People
AAUP Executive Director Peter Givler to Retire
Peter Givler, longtime executive director of the Association of American University Presses has announced plans to retire—but with a June, 2013 date, it’s a little too early for strolls down memory lane.
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Conferences
Print or Digital? ebrary Set to Discuss Student Survey Results on Friday
E-book vendor ebrary announced this week that it will discuss the initial results of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey on Friday November 4, at the Charleston Conference’s “Lively Lunch” session, and simultaneously online via a free webinar.
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Marketing
Survey Says Library Users Are Your Best Customers
This month Library Journal released the first issue of a quarterly publication called Patron Profiles. Based on surveys and data collected from library users across the country, the first issue—on libraries and e-book usage—indicates that libraries are a powerful economic engine for the book business.
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Copyright
U.S. Copyright Office Outlines "Priorities and Special Projects"
Orphan works, preservation for libraries, mass digitization, and fighting digital piracy are among the priorities set by the Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante this week in a paper outlining the U.S. Copyright Office's "priorities and special projects" for the next two years.
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Content / e-books
University of California Press in E-Book Partnership with Oxford
The University of California Press is partnering with Oxford University Press to launch California Scholarship Online/CALSO on OUP’s recently-launched University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform.
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Nancy Pearl
Check It Out: with Nancy Pearl: Book Reviewing and More
The demise of the Washington Post Book World and other traditional stand-alone print book reviews, as well as the loss of space devoted to reviewing books in most American newspapers, indicates a sea change in the way readers will find books to read.
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Interviews
Going Public: PW Talks with Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis is not a man to mince words. And to the critics and curmudgeons resisting the new networked world at our doorstep, the message in his latest book, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, is clear: get with it.
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Cory Doctorow
With a Little Help: Now at Your Library
It's been nine months since the launch of With a Little Help, and, as with most trade books, the action has slowed down. All in all, the book has earned me $2,231.23 over the summer and cost me $167.88 in costs.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Files File Amended Complaint Against Libraries
The Authors Guild has filed an amended complaint that expands its suit against university libraries over a book-scanning collaborative known as HathiTrust.
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Publisher News
Podcast: PW’s Week Ahead for Friday, Sept. 23
This week, Publishers Weekly launches a new podcast series in partnership with the Copyright Clearance Center's “Beyond the Book.” Each Friday, editors from PW will join host Chris Kenneally for a quick look back at the week the week that was, and an early look at the forthcoming issue of PW.
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Soapbox
Defining ‘Library’
A few years ago, I opened the proceedings of a summit that brought together publishers, technologists, funders, and librarians by ripping the cover off a paperback book. I was attempting, feebly, to make a point about the inviolability of books.
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Publisher News
‘PW’ Adds Peter Brantley
Publishers Weekly has made two additions in our commitment to covering library issues—the launch of a dedicated library landing page at PublishersWeekly.com, and the addition of Peter Brantley, who joins PW as a contributing editor and blogger.
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Copyright
Google Settlement Parties Pursue Separate Deals
After nearly three years stumping together to get the Google Book Settlement approved, the parties in the scuttled deal are headed for litigation. At a September 15 status conference, attorneys told Judge Chin that talks were progressing raising the likelihood that the authors’ and publishers’ cases would soon be split.
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Copyright
HathiTrust Suspends Its Orphan Works Release
Following the filing of a lawsuit over its scanning and orphan works initiative, HathiTrust this morning said it would suspend indefinitely its plan to release a set of 140 orphan works until is processes for determining copyright status are improved.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Sues Libraries
With the Google Book Search Settlement in tatters, its fragile alliance splintering, and the parties now on a pretrial schedule, the Authors Guild last week expanded its infringement claims by suing a consortium of university libraries over a digital library initiative.
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