Showing posts with label Copyright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Copyright. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

MediaWeek (Vol 14, No 8) Pearson Sues Chegg, B&N goes COVID Book Crazy, UK Copyright, Open Access Policies + More

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Pearson plc is suing Chegg for Copyright Infringement over test packs. ( CourtListener ) As part of Pearson’s focus on pedagogy, Pearson and...
Monday, April 05, 2021

PersonaNonData Magazine: Amazon++, Copyright, Shakespeare + Other Articles

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More articles of interest from my flipboard magazine: Articles: New Statesman: Should Books be Free? Billboard: Bandcamp changes the discuss...
Monday, November 30, 2020

MediaWeek Report (Vol 13, No 16): Big Mergers - Simon & Schuster, S&P Global, Copyrights & Libraries, Pearson

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Bertelsmann buying Simon & Schuster. No doubt you've read about this acquisition and here are some of the articles.  Many are taking...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Pirated Broadcast Content Worth $1Billion or More - Report

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In a new report undertaken by Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that the value of stolen digital content broadcast which is 'resold...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Textbook Class Action Case versus Publishers and Booksellers

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A six person Chicago law firm which engages in class action and personal injury cases has taken on the education publishing industry over t...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

MediaWeek (Vol 13, No 5): Pandemic Books, Hate Publishing on Amazon, College Returns?

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I pulled together a quick list of pandemic books a few weeks ago and here is a CNN article about a rejected book (by publishers) which is n...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 11): Merger News, Mega-Journals, Bookstores and Alexa.

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Opposition to the McGrawHill Cengage merger is taking form with the DOJ: In its section titled “The Textbook Market is Broken,” SPARC e...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 10): Flipboard Magazine, Trump Book Slump, Textbook Transformation, Mind the Gap + Others

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View my Flipboard Magazine. Articles: Book Publishing's Trump Slump The Radical Transformation of the Textbook Amazon's Plan...
Monday, August 19, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 9): Amazon Juggernaut & Dilemma, Open Source Publishing, Digital Textbooks, Elsevier

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The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut: What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your ev...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 8): Wiley, Indian Tariffs, UK Textbooks + More

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Wiley buys Zyante Books for $56MM in cash ( press release ) Zyante was founded in 2012 and its zyBooks platform has served over 500,00...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 7): Universal Music archive in flames, No law in the Amazon, Bad data, Faber&Faber

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From the NY Times magazine a cautionary tale about managing archives via the experience of Universal music which saw an entire warehouse...
Friday, June 14, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 6): Publishing News - B&N bidding, EBSCO, Follett, Axel Springer, Paper Shortages, University Presses

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Seoul, Korea: Book store My email newsletter is here. Investors believe the recent bid of $476mm for Barnes & Noble by Elliot Mana...
Monday, June 03, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 5): BookExpo, Elsevier, Viral Books, Bennington College, Magazines and Print.

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From this past weeks BookExpo conference, the Washington Post reflects on publishers concerns about the future.  (What would the business...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 4): The Week In Publishing - Vanity Fair Archive, LA Bookstores, Big Deal Subscriptions

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Bondi Digital a NY based digital publishing company announced the launch of the full Vanity Fair magazine archive: We are thrilled to sha...