Sentences with phrase «against book publishers»

The launch of an antitrust probe against book publishers, which the US Department of Justice has threatened, couldn't have come at a weirder time.

We reported earlier in this year in March that the EU conducted raids on various book publishers and this investigation marks headway on internal paperwork seized to gather a strong case against book publishers.

to John Aga, I don't take the DOJ's action against the book publishers as proof of anything meaningful.

As of today, Amazon's crusade against book publisher Hachette is no longer an open secret, it's outright confirmed.

Not exact matches

«It had everything going against it,» said Karl Brauer, executive publisher for Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

A coalition of federal lawmakers has spoken out against the new duties, including U.S. Reps. Brian Higgins and Elise Stefanik, who issued a joint statement on Thursday citing concerns over costs for consumers and potential job cuts for employees of newspaper and book publishers.

And the stakes posed by the narrative are high enough that one is riveted throughout to a story whose outcome is no surprise: Irving famously lost a libel case that he brought in 1996 against the American academic Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and her UK publishers, Penguin Books.

Instead they bought another publisher, Perseus Book Group, in order to gain leverage in their position against Amazon.

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As authors and business owners, self - publishers need to toe that line between acquiring new readers while also maintaining a high perceived value for their books — so Midnight Publishing cautions against pricing a book that low unless it's for a limited time and coincides with another type of discount or special, like Amazon's Kindle Countdown Deals.

What publishers fail to mention, however, is that the odds are against most books being available at any bookstore.

Not because the ads were bad or poorly designed, but the brick - and - mortar bookseller audience that reads them are predisposed against self - published books, especially POD like mine, due to the inability to return unsold copies and the inconvenience of dealing with an individual publisher.

Rallying against publishers is opening your arms to all of the atrocities that the internet has to offer and closing off the books that many people (in one of the most underpaid industries around) have spent their careers nurturing and making the best they can be.

A recent lawsuit was filed against them stating that they misrepresents themselves, luring authors in with claims that its books can compete with «traditional publishers,» offering «greater speed, higher royalties, and more control for its authors.»

Editorial by Javier Celaya During my presentation earlier this month at the If Book Then conference in Milan, I proposed that European publishers create a joint platform to compete against Amazon.

But the contract also has royalty periods where a short time after the end of a certain period of time the author should get an accounting from the publisher of the numbers of books sold against the advance in that period of time.

With cheap books a click away, the costs of parking and local sales tax alone stack the odds against brick and mortar stores but publishers are also evolving and changing.

I mean, picking a fight with a book publisher is one thing, but going up against the Mouse?

Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

The intention of the clause is to protect the publisher against paying the author for books that are sitting on store shelves but may eventually be returned to the publisher.

The term «agency pricing» may not be familiar to those outside the book industry, but it has become a serious issue with the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple and five major book publishers for colluding on prices as a defensive move against Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).

(Just think what they could have done had the ABA not spent $ 18 million suing the publishers in the late 1990s and had used that money to figure out how to sell books online against the little startup, Amazon?

Beck then published gritty crime novels (the newly discovered Shetani's Sister is due soon), and as his books sold in the millions (and his publisher ripped him off), he spoke out against racism, violence, and the exploitation of women.

As a publisher, and one that publishes topics that Amazon clearly does not like (they have kicked off around 75 of our books due to going against their «content guidelines»), I have forewarned our authors about going to Goodreads.

Finally, if the industry would stop taking an Amazon - against - the - world stance to book publishing and selling, more cooperative efforts could happen, which will benefit everyone from the publishers down to the average reader.

This isn't the first time Amazon has taken this kind of boycott - action against a publisher for not agreeing to its terms, but it's also not the first time any book retailer — online or otherwise — has refused to stock, discount, sell, or promote a specific publisher's works.

But I wanted to write this article to show that it isn't always this personal thing against self - publishers, generally it is a matter of volume control and unfortunately there isn't many ways to curb that besides not accepting requests (a blogger might try to set limits to say books with only a four star or above rating, etc, but often I find many bloggers experience authors and companies ignoring those guidelines so more drastic measures are taken).

Because the book became a hybrid lyric memoir that I feel pushes up against the boundaries of the genre, it felt like an independent publisher committed to bringing readers more experimental or overlooked story forms, from traditionally marginalized writers including women, would be the right home.

Of course, the irony of this is that getting your books into bookstores is one of the traditional BIG pluses of conventional publishers — making this one more talking point in the case against conventional publishing.

If you talk to a librarian, you'll soon learn how they have to carefully budget their monies for e-books against that for print books because a number of publishers charge much more for e-books than they do for «real» books.

Of course, the publisher held money against returns, because the likelihood that Target would return that book was very high.

Next Week's Interview Guest — Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World, talking about the Department of Justice's anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and the defendant publishers.

Colbert urged his audience to buy the book through independent booksellers, rather than Amazon, as a protest against the company's strong - arming publisher Hachette as part of their terms negotiations.

I was constantly bumping up against standardized procedures of traditional publishers which really made their books hard to read or use effectively.

While all publishers would like to have their books on the bookshelves of all the stores, the reality of small press publishing is against it.

Pursuant to Section 2 (b) of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act («APPA» or «Tunney Act»), 15 U.S.C. 16 (b)- (h), Plaintiff United States of America («United States») files this Competitive Impact Statement relating to the proposed Final Judgment against Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»), and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette and HarperCollins, «Settling Defendants»), submitted on April 11, 2012, for entry in this antitrust proceeding.

The amount of the advance against royalties is based on many factors: the size of the publisher, the historical performance of similar books in the marketplace; the author's track record and author platform or both; and the topicality of the book.

We do not license exclusive rights to publish your book from you, nor do we give you an advance against royalties like a traditional publisher.

$ 9.99 makes it much harder for publishers to sell hardbacks against ebooks priced there, which undercuts their margins, which is slowly strangling the supply side of the book industry.

Publisher Defendants compete against each other in the sales of both trade print books and trade e-books.

The United States of America, acting under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, brings this civil antitrust action against Defendants Apple, Inc. («Apple»); Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»); HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»); Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d / b / a Macmillan (collectively, «Macmillan»); The Penguin Group, a division of Pearson plc and Penguin Group (USA), Inc. (collectively, «Penguin»); and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Penguin, «Publisher Defendants») to obtain equitable relief to prevent and remedy violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1.

What publishers and authors typically refer to as a «book advance» is an «advance against royalties.»

Publishers are competing against all apps for recognition, not just book apps.

This roughly means that the great DRM - debate isn't even a top three issue for most publishers, while opponents of digital rights» management, who argue against the artificial incompatibility of an ebook across multiple devices, have shown that DRM - free books are no more likely to be pirated than those that have impose constraints on them.

Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188 % for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers» cost.

Earlier this year, the owners of The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., Fiction Addiction in Greenville, S.C., and Posman Books in New York City, filed a lawsuit against Amazon and the publishers for both the DRM conspiracy and a separate allegation that they were in violation of the Sherman Act — the same Act that factored in an important way in the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — for trying to gain a monopoly on the industry.

Rowling has been very protective of Harry Potter and his story, as evidenced by the lawsuit against US publisher RDR books at its attempt to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon.

First, the electronic retailer tried to force the publishers to accept lower prices for their e-books, and retaliated against the ones who refused by yanking their books from its virtual shelves.

This ultimately will help Overdrive in their plight against the big six publishers that seem to all be pulling out of having their books available as digital downloads for free.