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Penguin Turns “The Pocket Scavenger” Into an Interactive Creativity App

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:44:20 +0000

Until I opened an email this morning from a publicist at the Penguin Group (USA), who’d sent me a press release about the company’s newest so-called “creativity app,” The Pocket Scavenger, I was under the impression that I was at least somewhat tuned in to the world of Android apps. But apparently, not so much. Penguin, it [...]

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Penguin to Stop Windowing Library Books (Bonus: Cool workaround for Penguin library books)

Juli Monroe — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:05:40 +0000

You may have already seen that Penguin is going to stop the windowing of library book titles. That’s a good thing, and I applaud the decision. I’d be more excited if my library was part of the 3M system, and if Penguin wasn’t having books “expire” and require a repurchase every year, but some library books [...]

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DOJ Approves Penguin Random House Merger

Juli Monroe — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:37:01 +0000

One hurdle down. Several more to go with the EU, Canadian Competition Bureau and various other antitrust authorities around the world still needing to weigh in on this. Penguin’s settlement with the Justice Department was a move to smooth the way for this merger, and it looks like that move worked. Note that Random House, [...]

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Penguin launches Partridge, a self-publishing platform for India

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:01:42 +0000

In partnership with a Bloomington, Ind.-based self-publishing organization known as Author Solutions, Penguin Books India made an interesting move today by launching a self-publishing platform specifically for the Indian audience. It’s a tactic that may one day soon bring the Subcontinent at least somewhat closer to actualizing the self-publishing revolution that seems to have taken over much of [...]

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New Orwell cover designs obscure an Orwellian copyright saga

Paul St John Mackintosh — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:08:47 +0000

Penguin Books, along with its seriously talented team of graphic designers, is making great play of its latest rebooting of the George Orwell franchise. Coverage from the Huffington Post to the Creative Review lauds Penguin’s brave and high-minded initiative to relaunch Orwell’s works with bold cover designs that recall the original Penguin editions—only, in the case of [...]

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Penguin, Random House Merger Shows E-Books Dominate

Paul St John Mackintosh — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:00:46 +0000

So two of the largest publishers in the world are merging their book arms entirely to deal with “this exciting, fast-moving world of digital books and digital readers,” to quote Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino. Could there be any clearer proof that e-books are where the action is, and that the print-only model is truly over? [...]

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Apple, Penguin, Macmillan file responses to antitrust lawsuits

Chris Meadows — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:20:53 +0000

A week after its previous filing, concerning the Department of Justice antitrust case and settlement, Apple has made another filing—this one relating to the antitrust/price-fixing class action that 31 states have brought against it. (It was a little confusing; I actually had to look up the two filings and compare them before I figured out [...]

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Judge denies Apple, publisher motions to dismiss class-action price-fixing suit

Chris Meadows — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:58:29 +0000

Hot on the heels of the filing I mentioned yesterday, the judge in the publisher/Apple price-fixing class action has issued a 56-page ruling (PDF). It’s important to note that this is only a preliminary ruling on Apple and the publishers’ motion to have the case thrown out. It doesn’t mean they’re necessarily guilty. As such, [...]

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New details come to light in agency pricing class-action lawsuit

Chris Meadows — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:32:07 +0000

The hits just keep on coming. On PaidContent, Laura Hazard Owen writes about a new filing in a class-action lawsuit against the agency pricing publishers that reveals some previously redacted evidence in the case shedding light on the agency pricing negotiations. This is the suit in which a number of states (now up to 31 [...]

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Penguin parent company reassures stockholders about DoJ case in financial statement

Chris Meadows — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Pearson, the parent company of publisher Penguin, has released an interim management statement, as it is undoubtedly required to do every so often. Much of it isn’t of direct interest to e-book fans, but there is a paragraph on the book publishing industry and the DoJ lawsuit: Following several years of particularly strong performance relative [...]

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Publishers mishandle indie authors, fail to learn from mistakes

Chris Meadows — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:18:40 +0000

In her latest “The Business Rusch” column, Kristine Kathryn Rusch calls attention to the fact that this year a reporting Pulitzer went to an online-only publication, the Huffington Post, for the first time ever. Most traditional news outlets have been concentrating on the fact that no fiction Pulitzer was awarded this year, because (Mrs. Rusch [...]

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Designers ponder the future of the e-book ‘cover’

Chris Meadows — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:09:43 +0000

You can’t judge an e-book by its cover, because it usually doesn’t have one—or at least one that you can see without having already bought the book, which renders being attracted to it on a shelf fairly moot. I’ve written a few pieces about that here already. But here’s an article with a slightly different [...]

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Amazon Publishing acquires North American James Bond print and e-book rights

Chris Meadows — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:15:03 +0000

The name is Zon. Ama Zon. In 2010, the Fleming estate chose not to renew its publishing contract with Penguin for the James Bond novels, and proceeded to release them electronically in the UK via Amazon, Waterstones, and other e-book retailers. In March of this year, Random imprint Vintage Books acquired the world publishing rights [...]

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Big Six publishers decline to renew contract with Amazon over unfavorable terms

Chris Meadows — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:39:00 +0000

Salon Magazine has an extremely lengthy story looking at Amazon, and bringing up a couple of points I hadn’t heard about before. In main, the article looks at Amazon’s habit of making quiet but substantial grants to various small independent publishing organizations, totaling about $1 million per year. Is it done to support indie publishing, [...]

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Some publishers more willing to settle with DOJ than others over e-book pricing

Chris Meadows — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:49:39 +0000

The Wall Street Journal has some further news on the putative e-book pricing settlement in the US Justice Department and European Commission joint anti-trust investigation of the “Agency Five” publishers plus Apple. Anonymous sources have told the Journal that three publishers are inclined to settle and two others (plus Apple) are holding out. HarperCollins, Hachette, [...]

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