Following the announcement of agent Ed Victor’s publishing venture Bedford Square Books, Curtis Brown UK managing director Jonathan Lloyd admits that his agency is well down the path of formulating their own strategy for republishing their clients’ out-of-print works. “We are right behind him, but with a rather larger list,” Lloyd tells The Bookseller. Meanwhile, Victor told us that while he is “having a lot of fun, going back to my roots” as a publisher, “first and foremost I’m an agent…. My day job is being a literary agent and taking care of my clients.” At the same time, Victor […]
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Senate IP Legislation Back on the Table, but AAP Objects That Cyberlockers Aren’t Mentioned
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy re-introduced a new version of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) that was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last year but stalled out afterwards. The PROTECT IP Act has a narrower focus, which would allow the government to go after “rogue websites” containing pirated or infringed-upon content, and would allow for court orders against ISPs, search engines, ad networks and online payment processors to stop supporting such sites and for Google to stop linking to them. “The PROTECT IP Act targets the most egregious actors, and is an important first step to putting […]
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SVP and chief accounting officer for Scholastic John Giraldo will leave the company on June 1 for a new position, according to an SEC filing Thursday afternoon. Current evp and cfo Maureen O’Connell will take on Giraldo’s duties until a replacement is found. Bloomsbury associate publisher Sabrina Farber will leave the company at the end of this month. She has worked there since 2003. Longtime ABA staff member Mark Nichols‘ title has changed from industry relations officer to Development Officer. “The change was made to better reflect Nichols’ role in the association.” The ABA and On Demand Books have entered […]
Donnelley Will Provide POD and Frontlist Fulfillment for HarperCollins In Broad Supply Chain Agreement
HarperCollins has become the latest large publisher to address the shift in business from print to digital with a revised inventory model that outsources more services and reduces their fixed-cost warehouse network. Starting in November, the publisher will expand their longtime relationship with their printer RR Donnelley. All of Harper’s new releases will be fulfilled directly from Donnelley’s Harrisonburg, VA facility rather than Harper’s own network of warehouses. Donnelley will also provide global print-on-demand services to Harper, and as of July 2012, they will take over fulfillment of all titles from the Zondervan division, both frontlist and backlist. As a […]
Audible Looks to Jump-Start Audiobook Production with Entrepreneurial ACX
After a series of industry previews, Audible.com has gone live today with an ambitious new platform designed to both significantly expand the number of published books available in audio and to give rightsholders and audiobook talent a bigger stake in process. Called ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange), the site is a marketplace for matching the vast pool of books not yet adapted for audio with acting talent and producers, in an entrepreneurial model that lets participants on both sides of the equation work at fixed-rate buyouts or a 50/50 share of back-end proceeds with no upfront costs. Royalties escalate from 50 […]
eNews: iFlow Reader Shuts Down, Blaming Apple’s New Policy; Kobo eReader Price Drop; and More
In advance of any official reckoning between Apple’s reinterpreted rule requiring “that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase,” the makers of the iFlow Reader app are angrily throwing in the towel. BeamItDown Software publisher Philip Huber announced that the company and its ereading app will cease operations on May 31. They launched their ebookstore in December 2010 and say in a posted letter to customers that “two months later, Apple changed the rules and put us […]