It took only 17 years, but finally, the Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation has culminated this week with the issuance of settlement checks to nearly 2,500 freelance journalists totaling $9.5 million. The class action lawsuit, launched in 2001, claimed copyright infringement when about 600,000 newspaper articles were licensed to databases without the writers’ prior knowledge or permission. “We’ve been at the finish line for this lawsuit for a very long time, and so it is great that it’s finally happening,” Authors Guild president (and one of the named plaintiffs) James Gleick told the NYT. “But it’s also certainly a […]
Archives for May 2018
May Book Picks
The May Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Leopard at the Door, by Jennifer McVeigh. Educated by Tara Westover is the May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club. Amazon’s spotlight pick for May is Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight, and their featured debut is The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer collection). Also on their top 10 for the month are: Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson A Shout in the Ruins, by Kevin Powers How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan Miss Subways, by David Duchovny Come […]
People, Etc.
At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Sarah Creech has been promoted to associate art director for Simon Pulse and Tiara Iandiorio has been promoted to junior designer for Aladdin. Heather Palisi has joined as senior designer for Aladdin and Simon Pulse; she was most recently senior designer at Penguin Random House. Jess LaGreca has joined as art coordinator. Kaitlyn Kennedy has joined Sourcebooks as director of marketing. She was previously publicity manager at Harper Collins. At National Geographic Kids, Becky Baines has been promoted to vice president and editorial director; Kate Hale moves up to executive editor; Sally Abbey becomes director of editorial operations; Ariane Szu-Tu has been promoted to editor; Kathryn Williams moves up to associate editor; Michaela Weglinski become assistant editor; and […]