O, The Oprah Magazine is releasing “O, The Oprah Magazine Cookbook” with Hyperion on April 29. Although Oprah openly admits that she’s not much a cook and has always publicly struggled with her weight, the cookbook boasts mouth-watering recipes from top chefs like Bobby Flay, Daniel Boulud, and Ina Garten. Even Oprah’s close personal friends [...]
Three prominent academic publishers allege in a lawsuit that Georgia State University, in Atlanta, is violating the “fair use” provision of copyright law by disseminating whole chapters of copyrighted material to students in electronic course packs. These course packs are becoming increasingly common — accounting perhaps for half of all syllabus reading at American colleges [...]
HarperCollins plans to upend traditional book publishing practices by launching a new unit that will supply retailers with product on a firm-sale basis, and greatly reduce or eliminitate authors’ advances. There has been no word from retailers yet on the idea, but several years ago, Steve Riggio, CEO of Barnes & Noble, said that he would [...]
In the inaugural issue, IPDA president Jerry Lynch describes the e-newsletter as, “…a communications vehicle for all partners in the magazine and book distribution channels, from publisher through retailer, as we work together to address our challenges and leverage our strengths.” In the same introductory column, Lynch also announces plans for a mid-March, IPDA-sponsored meeting among to foster more [...]
Web readers won’t be able to download the text to their laptops or electronic readers, like Amazon’s Kindle, and the print function also will be disabled. So, they will have to do their unlimited browsing there, on the website, in the same way that bookstore browsers can knock off a few chapters in those big easy [...]
In response to a question, a senior executive leading Time Warner’s 4th quarter and full year 2007 conference call this morning suggested that its publishing business held the prospect of generating good returns in the middle term, particularly by extending from print into digital platforms, but that management and investors were waiting for a demonstration of [...]
The president of Hearst Magazines is interviewed in advance of her visit to San Francisco for a City Arts & Lectures conversation with Arianna Huffington tomorrow night at Herbst Theatre (www.cityarts.net). Featuring prominently are anecdotes and advice from the subject’s bestselling book, Basic Black. The San Francisco Chronicle (Jan. 16, 2008)
The former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and author of The Diana Chronicles, has signed a contract with Bertelsmann AG’s Doubleday imprint for the project. She has received an advance estimated to be $2 million. The Wall Street Journal Subscription required. (Jan. 11, 2008)
Dennis Publishing has found a way to capture the web 2.0 craze by launching a “bookazine” about the popular social networking website Facebook. The 148 page publication will be produced in cooperation with Facebook and include articles such as “Famous on Facebook” and “Create a real life Facebook event.” Dennis plans to distribute 20,000 copies [...]
The WSJ’s Personal Technology columnist Walter S. Mossberg lauds Amazon for getting the shopping experience right, he finds a lot of shortcomings in the $400 electronic reader. Plus, the Sony [electronic] Reader, just updated, retails for 100 bucks less. Wall Street Journal (Nov. 29, 2007)