Krakauer Sues Houghton Over Permissions Violation Jon Krakauer filed suit in Denver on October 1 against Houghton Mifflin and RR Donnelly for making over 1.2 million allegedly “unauthorized and impermissible” reproductions of portions of his book INTO THIN AIR in a textbook. Bloomberg reports Krakauer says Houghton “bought a license to print no more than 40,000 copies of an excerpt for use in the ninth-grade schoolbook The Language of Literature and exceeding that limit violated his copyright.” Bloomberg Bookworld Closes Florida-based distributor Bookworld has gone out of business. A local paper reports: “Founder Ronald Ted Smith said that in the […]
