Archives for February 2023
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Sarah Falter joins the Morrow Group as director of publicity. She was previously director of publicity at HarperCollins Christian Publishing.
Authors Place Press Settles Lawsuit with Authors Guild; Will Stop Publishing
A small press that was sued last month by the Authors Guild over nonpayment has settled, the AG announced. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of 11 authors and led by Karyn Schoenbart, accused Authors Place Press of failing to pay royalties, provide royalty statements, or revert rights to the authors. In the settlement, Authors Place owner Tony Ferraro agreed to revert book rights to the plaintiffs, terminate their agreements so they may publish elsewhere, and provide the authors with all artwork, text, and design files free of charge. Ferraro will also pay Schoenbart–former ceo of NPD Group–“a token monetary payment” […]
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William Daniel has joined Ingram Content Group as vice president of application services. He was previously chief technology officer at Intersoft Data Labs.
Bill to Limit Library E-Book Lending Fails in VA Senate
A bill failed in the Virginia state senate yesterday that would have prevented publishers from imposing limits on lending electronic material. The Committee on General Laws and Technology voted 15-0 to block the bill. The bill stipulated that a publisher’s contract with a library could not “Preclude…the Library from licensing any electronic literary material;” “Restrict the number of licenses for any electronic literary material that a library may acquire after the same item is made available to the public;” “Require a library to pay a cost-per-circulation fee to loan any electronic literary material, unless substantially lower in aggregate than the […]
Obituary: Carin Goldberg
Carin Goldberg, 69, a graphic designer who designed many famous book covers, died on January 19 of a brain tumor. One of her best-known designs was the cover of a 1986 reissue of Ulysses. The NYT writes that she was “a scholar of designs and typefaces, particularly those of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which she reimagined in elegant and witty combinations on the covers of hundreds of albums and thousands of books.”