Last week Wiley filed suit in Manhattan federal court against 27 John Doe defendants who illegally downloaded various FOR DUMMIES titles from Ukraine-based Torrent website demonoid.me on October 18 and 19. The John Does are identified for now only by their IP addresses, all within the state of New York. Wiley claims in the suit that these defendants “are contributing to a problem that threatens the profitability of Wiley. Although Wiley cannot determine at this time the precise amount of revenue that it has lost as a result of peer-to-peer file sharing of its copyrighted works though BitTorrent software, the […]
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Dzanc Aims to rEprint Over 500 Literary Titles Over the Next Year
Independent non-profit publisher Dzanc Books is another player gearing up to publish a significant line of classic and backlist works in ebook form. Deal-watchers will have noticed that the publisher has been listing some of those acquisition recently in our deal reports, but publisher Dan Wickett says the scope of the project is far larger than the reports would indicate. Dzanc’s rEprint series has “well over a hundred titles contracted for and in-process” with deals in process for a hundred more, and a goal of reissuing more than 500 literary titles “over the course of the next year.” Originated by […]
Bookselling: BN Boutiques and November 7 Announcement; Riverrun Bookstore Looks for New Location, Additional Backers
Building on our report from Friday, Barnes & Noble has indeed announced a press event on the morning of November 7 featuring “a very special announcement,” widely expected to unveil their latest ereading tablet. Separately, at the company’s annual meeting last week, the company confirmed the other piece of information cited from the Digital Reader: the company is doubling the size of the Nook boutiques in 40 of their “most productive stores” to 2,000 square feet of space, presumably to feature those new devices. Riverrun Bookstore will not renew the lease at its current location in Portsmouth, NH, set to […]
The WSJ’s New Bestseller Lists
As reported Friday, this weekend the WSJ launched their own ebook bestseller lists, managed by Nielsen BookScan. The inaugural groups–featuring lists of 10 slots each for fiction and nonfiction ebooks, and two combined any-format print and ebook lists–look pretty much like the same data pool already reflected in bestseller tabulations from USA Today and the New York Times. The one notable variant so far is Tom Standage’s A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 6 GLASSES, on the list thanks to being featured as the $1.99 Kindle Daily Deal on October 21. That boost was good enough to make it No. […]
eNews: WSJ Adds eBook Bestseller List, Compiled By Nielsen; Amazon in Talks for Kindle in China; and More
Starting tomorrow, the WSJ’s Weekend edition will feature their own ebook bestseller lists. Like the NYT lists, the Journal will present both ebook-only lists for fiction and nonfiction, as well as combined print and ebook lists in both categories. All titles are eligible–self-published, children’s, backlist, etc.–as long as they have a minimum price of 99 cents or higher. Nielsen BookScan is aggregating the data for the WSJ, drawing on what the release calls “all major retailers,” said to include Amazon, Nook, iBookstore, Sony and Google eBooks among others. Like the other WSJ charts, the new lists will be positional only, […]
AAP eBook Sales Stay At Around 20%
The AAP has caught up on their monthly reports, issuing sales totals for August. eBooks were still the second-largest trade segment, behind adult paperbacks, registering $88.8 million. Per the trend for most of the year, ebooks are still running at about 20 percent of reported trade sales. We’ve straightened out some things that have confused us in the past few months, so we’re going to take a different approach to our explanations and disclaimers this month. Currently, 18 publishers report ebook sales to the AAP; the only company of scale that reports print sales but not ebook sales is WW […]