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US Authors Guild voices concerns with Amazon Library Lending 'mess'
The US Authors Guild says it is troubled by both Amazon taking some titles from publishers without their permission for its Kindle lending library program, as well as by publishers who signed onto th...
Rights round-up
In recent rights news: SalesFiction--Scribe has sold German and Croatian rights in Bereft (Chris Womersley) to DVA, an imprint of Random House and Fraktura respectively; Portuguese rights to the ...
Frankfurt to double size of agents' centre
The Frankfurt Book Fair will double the size of its literary agents' centre (LitAg) and move it to Hall 6 alongside a 'StoryDrive Business Centre'
Ebook territoriality still 'key' for UK publishers
Delegates to a panel session at LBF have been told that 'controlling world English-language rights is key to taking advantage of the global book economy for UK publishers.'
Shatzkin: is print now a subsidiary right?
Mike Shatzkin uses the recent Amazon/Amanda Hocking news to argue that digital-first publishing deals will soon be the norm, with print rights sold on as a secondary deal.
Amazon was under-bidder for Hocking
When ebook self-publishing sensation Amanda Hocking sought a more traditional route to publication, reportedly Amazon made a serious bid to be the primary publisher with exclusive ebook rights, backed...
Bologna 'back to business'
Reports from this year's Bologna Children's Book Fair suggest a buoyant and upbeat mood.
App debate dominates Bologna TOC
The financial risks of app creation and the dilemmas of handling digital co-editions were the hot topics at the Bologna Book Fair's first Tools of Change conference, according to The Bookseller....
Catherine Cookson's estate to sell ebooks
The estate of author Catherine Cookson has sidestepped her print publishers Transworld (UK) and Simon & Schuster (US) by announcing that it intends to sell ebooks of 100 of her backlist titles via...
Shatzkin: rights data 'the most important problem' for publishers
According to Mike Shatzkin, 'the most important problem for publishers to solve in the next 10 years' is getting comprehensive and relational rights data into a single repository to allow the easy sel...
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