Author Solutions has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle claims brought by the Business Software Alliance that the company was running unlicensed copies of computer software programs from Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec. CEO Kevin Weiss said the problem stemmed from “one of our companies prior to our ownership.”Indy Star
An Analyst with Some Sense on Kindle
McAdams Wright Ragen Tim Bueneman said on Friday in an e-mail that based on his meetings with management at Amazon, “There are already several new, improved versions of the Kindle in the works. But Amazon has no plans, however, for an MP3 music audio version. We guess the new version will have improved interface operating controls. This has been an issue with some buyers.” Bueneman’s letter notes that Amazon sees an opportunity to market Kindle to college students “market its e-book reader to college students” and it’s this threat that most of the press jumps on. Amazon’s Heather Huntoon comments […]
Denmark Intends to Publish MEDINA
Danish publishers association Trykkeselskabet has approved the publication of Shery Jones’s novel THE JEWEL OF MEDINA in Denmark. A spokesperson told a Danish newspaper, “Fear or threats should not keep a book from being published. It would be principally and entirely a renewal of all that Denmark has already been through with the Mohammed cartoon affair.” To that point, Jones’s agent Natasha Kern wrote to the society, “When you consider what’s happened in your country, I admire your readiness to ensure that freedom of expression is not obstructed.”Danish story
Snowball Will Need to Gather Momentum without Buffett
One of the questions about Alice Schroeder’s authorized book about Warren Buffett, SNOWBALL, was always whether Buffett would participate in the promotion of the project. (Final bidders in the presumed $7 million-plus auction met with him in Omaha before the deal was sealed.) Bantam publisher Irwyn Applebaum acknowledges that no promises were made on that front. He tells the WSJ: “He gave her access to his contacts, his friends and the opportunity to get to know him better than any other writer, which is what makes the book so outstanding.” He added, “Would we love to have Warren Buffett doing […]
CIA Responds to Suskind
The CIA has felt it necessary to issue a press release in response to charges made in Ron Suskind’s THE WAY OF THE WORLD–keeping it in the news cycle. One of their denials only reasserts how wrong the Agency was on Iraq to begin with: “Suskind also alleges that the United States knew before the start of hostilities with Iraq that Saddam Hussein had no stockpiles of WMD. That, too, is both false and wrong. False because the Intelligence Community assessed that Saddam Hussein had such weapons. Wrong because it implies the Community chose to ignore information of which it […]
BN Continuing to Develop Digital Products
In yesterday’s conference call following their earnings reports, BN ceo Steve Riggio answered an analyst’s question about the chain’s plans for new technology and the marketplace: “We began selling digital magazines earlier this year on the website. We’re very encouraged by what we’re seeing there and like with all new strategic developments of any type, we will announce it on the day that we launch but we can’t really make any further comments on anything that we will be doing or might be doing, it’s just so highly strategic…. We do not believe that eBooks is the total universe of […]