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Archives for April 2014

Class Action Suit Against Author Solutions Moves Forward

April 30, 2014
By Michael Cader

In mid-April, Judge Denise Cote rejected all of the substantive motions to dismiss a class action suit brought by author/customers against Author Solutions, and the suit will move forward. The parties will proceed to discovery and will submit a proposed pre-trial schedule to the court. One claim of unjust enrichment based on unpaid royalties was […]

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Frankfurt Confirms Moving English-Language Publishers to Hall 6 in 2015

April 30, 2014
By Michael Cader

The Frankfurt Book Fair has confirmed in public what fair officials have been discussing privately (and thoroughly) with some of their biggest customers since the October 2013 show: The current English-language exhibition space, Hall 8, will be abandoned as of the 2015 fair, and those publishers will move into the multiple (but smaller) floors of […]

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Corporate News: A Food52 Imprint, F+W Rebrands, Time Home Entertainment Sales Go In-House

April 30, 2014
By Michael Cader

Food52, the social website for cooks founded by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, will set up a cookbook imprint at Ten Speed Press called Food52 Works. Hesser and Stubbs will be involved “in shaping the development and direction” of the line, for which Ten Speed associate publisher Hannah Rahill will be general editor. The initiative […]

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Gerritsen Sues Warner Bros. Over Credit on Film GRAVITY

April 30, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

On Tuesday Tess Gerritsen filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. in a Los Angeles US District Court over credit and net profit participation on the “Gravity” movie, which she says was at least partly based on her 1999 novel of the same name. Rather than the typical copyright infringement claim in many movie source disputes, Gerritsen […]

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Harper and Open Road Go Back to Court On JULIE OF THE WOLVES

April 29, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

The US District Court has now published the update submitted jointly by HarperCollins and Open Road last Friday on the next step in the Julie of the Wolves ebook case. The two companies “have to date been unable to reach a resolution” with respect to the right to license the ebook edition of Jean Craighead […]

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People, Etc.

April 29, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

Former longtime Random House publicity executive Barb Burg died on Tuesday, at 50. Burg rose from a publicity assistant at Bantam Books in 1986 to svp, director of publicity and public relations for the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. In 2011, she took a position as director of global communications for Reuters News. A funeral […]

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