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Hachette Book Group USA and the Swedish writer Jonas Jonasson
have engaged lawyers to pursue royalty payments owed to the author by
Hesperus Press. |
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Authors are protesting against a Green Party proposal to
reduce the length of copyright terms to a maximum of 14 years.
The UK copyright term is currently set at the life of the
author plus 70 years, but in the "Intellectual Property" section
of a policy
statement the Green Party says it wants to “expand the area of cultural
activity, that is ways that culture can be consumed and shared, reduce the
role of the market and encourage smaller and more local cultural
enterprise”. |
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A global piracy ring has been found guilty in a US federal
court of intentionally infringing copyright, sharing copies of books from
up to 16,000 international publishers. The maximum damages allowed under US
law - $37.5m – were awarded.
The case of Elsevier Inc v Victor Kozlov and Pavel Kazutsin,
which was brought to court as a joint action by the global publishing
industry, concerned the defendants' websites Avaxhome and Avaxsearch, which
illegally provided access to digital copies of millions of books, as well
films, music, games and other copyrighted content. |
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Penguin Random House UK and taxi ordering app Hailo have
partnered on a new scheme which will see free physical and audiobooks given
away.
Free books will be left in cabs which use the Hailo service,
under the #BlackCabBooks scheme, while audiobook extracts will be available
through the app itself. The new promotion has launched today, World Book
Night (23rd April), where people are encouraged to spread the joy of
reading by giving books. |
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Penguin Random House in the US has launched a new
consumer-facing website under a unified branding. |
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Quercus Books is to host a digital-led "Day of the
Girl" celebration of Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of Stieg Larsson’s
Millennium series, on the character’s birthday on 30th April. |
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Ken Michaels has been appointed chief executive officer of
Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures.
Currently the global chief operating officer of Macmillan Science and
Education (MSE), Michaels will begin his new job upon the closing of the
proposed merger
between parts of MSE and Springer Science+Business Media. |
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HarperCollins has appointed Oli Malcolm to the role of
publishing strategy director for fiction, non-fiction and Avon. |
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Farmer and writer John Lewis-Stempel has won the Thwaites
Wainwright Prize 2015 for Meadowland:
the Private Life of an English Field (Black Swan).
Worth £5,000, the annual book prize is awarded by publisher
Frances Lincoln, in association with the National Trust, to highlight the
best books in UK nature and travel writing. Lewis-Stempel beat off
competition from five other shortlisted titles, including Helen
Macdonald’s H is for
Hawk (Jonathan Cape). |
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A new independent bookshop has opened in Boyne Valley in
Ireland, selling new books with a focus on children’s literature.
Last weekend husband and wife team Shane and Lorraine Breslin
“quietly opened” Blackbird Books on the Old Corn Market in Boyne Valley,
County Meath, which is about a 40-minute drive from Dublin.
The two-storey shop will stock books across a 1,000 sqft
space, with new books downstairs and a secondhand section upstairs. |
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House of Illustration is partnering with Curved House Kids,
which promotes visual literacy skills among primary school children, to
offer families in Islington the chance to publish their own book. |
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