This is a partial-index only of Publishers Lunch reports within the “Agency Lawsuits” section. It focuses on guiding readers to key original documents in the four different legal actions (the Federal lawsuit; the state lawsuit; the class-action lawsuit; and the EU investigation). In each sub-section, links are listed starting with the most recent postings. If you page back manually through the “Agency Lawsuits” section you will find many additional articles as well. Legal Filings: Department of Justice Lawsuits Macmillan’s answer Penguin’s answer Apple’s answer DOJ’s complaint DOJ’s competitive impact statement DOJ’s proposed settlement agreement with Harper, HBG and S&S DOJ […]
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S&S Press Release: “Simon & Schuster and God Ink Deal”
New York, N.Y., November 30, 2010 — It was announced today that the rights to a new memoir by God – Supreme Being, wellspring of existence, quintessence of glory, and source of everlasting life – have been acquired by Simon & Schuster. “We are pleased and honored to add the Lord Almighty to our list of notable authors,” said Executive Vice President and Publisher Jonathan Karp. The as-yet-untitled testament which Karp says he plans to publish in late 2011–in time for the busy pre-Armageddon retail season–will be semi-autobiographical in nature. Senior editor Sarah Knight says this time around God […]
Random House CEO Dohle's Letter to Agents on eRights and More
The Most Marketplace: Making Contact
Inspired by a weekend Twitter post from agent Collen Lindsay (“Book Editors: Make sure your listing in Publishers Marketplace is current. It’s free for you to add your contact info”) today’s PublishersMarketplace.com feature highlight is on our popular Contact database. Increasingly the database is used as the “industry phone book” for daily contacts, and our own query audits confirm that the majority of searches is indeed agents and editors looking for each other. We answer about 1,200 contact queries a day, making it one of our most popular features, and the database is available to members only (so it cannot […]
On Dalrymple
Provided by Hachette Book Group: Dennis M. Dalrymple died Thursday, March 5, in New York City. He was 67. He is survived by his wife, Jamie Raab, and their children, son Ian Dalrymple and daughter Lola Dalrymple. The cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage. In a forty year career in book publishing as a literary contracts expert, he consulted with hundreds of authors, publishers and literary agents. He worked with such companies as Avon Books, Dell Publishing and Harper and Row (now HarperCollins), and then joined Warner Books as Director of Contracts where he stayed for 17 years. There, he […]
Let's Play the Amazon Guessing Game
How can we get a handle on what Amazon’s mysterious Kindle statistic–a unit-based percentage of a percentage of titles, where books comprise an unspecified percentage of overall media sales–actually looks like? Given all the variables it’s very hard, but below is one potential formula, and you can adjust the assumptions as you wish. As reported above, North American sales for all media for the quarter were $1.245 billion. At the closest roughly comparable businesses, Barnes & Noble and Borders, book sales tend to comprise 70 to 60 percent of total sales. Let’s be conservative and start with 70 percent, which […]