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Bookninja (Free subscription) | yesterday
The US government confirmed yesterday that authorities are conducting a formal investigation into whether Google’s settlement with the US book industry is anti-competitive. Google had reached an agreement with authors’ groups to pay at least $60/work for the right to digitize and sell ‘orphan’ books i.e. those still under copyright but with uncertain ownership. Google would...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
With nearly 170 reporters, editors and researchers covering Congress, politics and public policy, Congressional Quarterly keeps its readers updated in print and online on a weekly, daily and real-time basis. With a readership that includes nearly every member of Congress and their staffs, as well as Executive Branch and state-level officials, leaders in business and associations, top academic institutions...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
- OECD nations' HPI scores plummeted between 1960 and the late
1970s. Although there have been some gains since then, HPI scores were
still higher in 1961 than in 2005. Life satisfaction and life
expectancy combined have increased 15 per cent over the 45-year period,
but it has come at an earth-shattering cost - an increase in ecological
footprint per head of 72 per cent.
- Of a group of 36 major...
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Environmental and Urban Economics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some people don't like to read while some nerds do. Let's acknowledge that there are at least two types of nerd readers. Set #1 have a taste for variety and suffer from slight attention deficient disorder and want to be exposed to a tidbit of information on a very large number of subjects. We can call this group the Wikipedia Nerds (WN). With the advent of the Internet blog, how many WN have substituted...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
TROY Group, Inc. ("TROY") is a worldwide leader of secure on-demand printing solutions. TROY solutions manage, secure and simplify end-to-end enterprise printing environments. TROY offers application software, security printing hardware and specialized consumables for securely printing checks, money orders, transcripts, prescriptions and other important documents. TROY solutions are used...
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The Tom Peters Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are big changes adrift in the publishing industry and there's a lot of experimentation happening. One WOW! project is...
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Marine Mysteries (Free subscription) | yesterday
My latest crime novel Dead Man’s Wharf was published in America on 1 July 2009 in hardcover. I'm delighted that it immediately received an excellent review from Kirkus Book Reviews. Kirkus Reviews is published 24 times annually, with nearly 5,000 book reviews each year. It is one of the most prestigious names in the publishing industry and is read by publishers, libraries, agents, film and television...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our friend and occasional correspondent Karen Spears Zacharias wrote a blog post yesterday about her friend Wanda Jewell , the executive director of the Southeast Independent Booksellers Alliance : "Books are her passion, bookstores her pulpit, and readers her mission field," Zacharias said in praise of Jewell , who earlier this year created a promotion in which she gave a free book for...
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Media Week (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON - The Association of Publishing Agencies, the trade body for the customer publishing industry, has launched a new planning initiative as it looks to inprove communication with media agencies and lure more business to the industry.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- XpressPrint, a leading print solutions provider in Southern California, has been named the Official Printer and is a sponsor of the Huntington Beach 4th of July Celebration. The board responsible for coordinating this traditional event has entrusted XpressPrint to produce the commemorative program as well as a portion of the event and parade banners...
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Around Robin (Free subscription) | yesterday
American authorities are conducting a formal investigation into whether Google's $125m deal with the US book industry is anti-competitive. The Department of Justice has confirmed that it is looking into the internet giant's agreement with authors' groups to pay for the right to digitise and sell millions of books. Rumours of the investigation had been circulating for several months, but the Department...
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VOT3R (Free subscription) | yesterday
American authorities are conducting a formal investigation into whether Google's $125m deal with the US book industry is anti-competitive. The Department of Justice has confirmed that it is looking into the internet giant's agreement with authors' groups to pay for the right to digitise and sell millions...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
After a few months of informal moves on it, the U.S. Justice Dept is now investigating an anti-trust inquiry into Google’s book settlement with the authors and publishers over its online book scanning and repository project. The agreement, which was reached last year, has been criticized by some authors and publishers as giving the search giant a stranglehold on the book publishing industry;...
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
After a few months of informal moves on it, the U.S. Justice Dept is now investigating an anti-trust inquiry into Google 's book settlement with the authors and publishers over its online book scanning and repository project. The agreement, which was reached last year, has been criticized by some authors and publishers as giving the search giant a stranglehold on the book publishing industry; the...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McClatchy Company (NYSE: ) announced today that Lynn Dickerson, vice president, operations, will leave the company July 17"We continue to restructure and transition to a new business model - one that requires us to be smaller and more efficient in every area of the organization. This includes our senior management and corporate offices,"...
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kamen group | 07/02/2009
National Economy Compromising Survival Of Publishing Companies www.KamenGroup.com - The Kamen Group Publishing Report Baldwin, NY - Print and Digital Media Appraiser and Broker Kevin B. Kamen, President/CEO of Kamen & CO. Group Services in New York ( www.KamenGroup.com ), believes that the continued worsening of the overall US economy at the end of the second quarter of 2009 will have a dire impact...
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espl4 | 09/08/2008
The Conde Nast Media Group’s 5th Annual Fashion Rocks event hit NY Radio City Music Hall last night bringing along a real star tsunami. It was like a Grammy Awards ceremony or something.
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soulfullvibes | 07/14/2008
Beverly Hills, CA (BlackNews.com) - Biz-e-Bee Publications is a new company owned by Biz-e-Bee Entertainment L.L.C. It's mission is to bring fresh and new, urban content to the book industry.
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