TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Hachette http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Mon, 20 May 2013 20:08:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Hachette to Offer Full Catalog, Including New Releases, To Libraries http://www.teleread.com/library/hachette-to-offer-full-catalog-including-new-releases-to-libraries/ http://www.teleread.com/library/hachette-to-offer-full-catalog-including-new-releases-to-libraries/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 15:15:49 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=84217 This is kind of a good news/bad news story. The good news is that Hachette is going to be offering its full catalog to libraries, including new releases. No windowing! The other piece of good news is that the books won’t expire, unlike library books from HarperCollins, Penguin and Macmillan. I really like the no-expiration [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/hachette-to-offer-full-catalog-including-new-releases-to-libraries/feed/ 2 Retailers begin discounting Macmillan e-books http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/retailer-begin-to-discount-macmillan-e-books/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/retailer-begin-to-discount-macmillan-e-books/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:04:10 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=82658 Retailers are finally discounting Macmillan-published e-books – nearly two months after it settled its Department of Justice’s price fixing case. Prices of e-books have been lowered on sites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, according to Publishers Lunch. This includes books such as Silver Linings Playbook, Killing Lincoln and Ender’s Game. That leaves Penguin [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/retailer-begin-to-discount-macmillan-e-books/feed/ 0 Morning Links: Book promotion strategies that actually worked http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-book-promotion-strategies-that-actually-worked/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-book-promotion-strategies-that-actually-worked/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:11:24 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=82553 Book Promotion Strategies That Actually Worked (GalleyCat) Amazon Refuses to Publish First Cornish-Language eBook (Tech Dirt) What Walled Gardens do to the Health of the Web (Boing Boing) HarperCollins and Hachette Disband Agency Model for UK (Good e-Reader) Kindle Daily Deals: The Flight of the Century by Thomas Kessner (and 3 others)

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-book-promotion-strategies-that-actually-worked/feed/ 0 Feeling Bookish: CEO Ardy Khazaei on the real aims—and real benefits—of the publisher joint venture http://www.teleread.com/books/feeling-bookish-ceo-ardy-khazaei-on-the-real-aims-and-real-benefits-of-the-publisher-joint-venture/ http://www.teleread.com/books/feeling-bookish-ceo-ardy-khazaei-on-the-real-aims-and-real-benefits-of-the-publisher-joint-venture/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:45:18 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=81588 While it’s odd to think of an organization backed by the  Penguin, Hachette and Simon & Schuster as a startup, Bookish, the new book-recommendation and -discovery site is essentially that. After two years in development under three CEOs, Bookish is now a reality, a place where users can get recommendations—based on titles or groups of titles [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/books/feeling-bookish-ceo-ardy-khazaei-on-the-real-aims-and-real-benefits-of-the-publisher-joint-venture/feed/ 1 BREAKING: Macmillan Settles with DOJ on Price Fixing http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-settles-with-doj-over-price-fixing/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-settles-with-doj-over-price-fixing/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:30:07 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=78399 Apple is now the lone hold-out. As you may recall, three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster—immediately settled, leaving Penguin, MacMillan and Apple to fight it out in court. Penguin settled in December, probably to protect their pending merger with Random House. And now Macmillan joins its fellows. Macmillan CEO John Sargent cited financial reasons [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/news-roundup-2/morning-roundup-stories-you-may-have-missed-36/feed/ 2 Changes in e-book pricing settlement payouts: Here’s what you need to know http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/changes-in-e-book-pricing-settlement-payouts-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/changes-in-e-book-pricing-settlement-payouts-heres-what-you-need-to-know/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:32:05 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=72309 If you’re one of the many e-book customers who’s expecting a payment or credit as a result of the 49 states’ recent $69 million settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, you should be aware that “the states have slightly modified the way those payments will work,” according to Paid Content reporter Laura Hazard Owen. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/changes-in-e-book-pricing-settlement-payouts-heres-what-you-need-to-know/feed/ 0 The public outcry over J.K. Rowling’s first adult novel, and the important lesson publishers can learn from it http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-public-outcry-over-j-k-rowlings-first-adult-novel-and-the-important-lesson-publishers-can-learn-from-it/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-public-outcry-over-j-k-rowlings-first-adult-novel-and-the-important-lesson-publishers-can-learn-from-it/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:22:26 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=71933 J.K. Rowling’s first adult novel hit stores (and e-book readers) today, and almost immediately, the lukewarm reviews trickled in—not for the content of the book itself, but for the Kindle formatting: a glitch on the tech end (which this article attributes to an unspecified ‘issue’ on the end of Hachette, the publisher) made it impossible for [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-public-outcry-over-j-k-rowlings-first-adult-novel-and-the-important-lesson-publishers-can-learn-from-it/feed/ 7 Hachette’s E-Book Prices for Libraries to Raise 220% http://www.teleread.com/library/hachettes-e-book-prices-for-libraries-to-raise-220/ http://www.teleread.com/library/hachettes-e-book-prices-for-libraries-to-raise-220/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:06:05 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=70914 It seems as if a new chapter in the Big Six’s war with libraries has been written. Beginning on October 1, libraries interested in acquiring backlist e-books from Hachette will have to pay approximately 220% more than they would today. Infodocket’s Gary Price seems to have been the reporter who broke the story late last week; he apparently obtained [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/news-roundup-links-to-start-your-day-17/feed/ 0 News Roundup: Stories You May Have Missed http://www.teleread.com/nintendo/news-roundup-stories-you-may-have-missed-2/ http://www.teleread.com/nintendo/news-roundup-stories-you-may-have-missed-2/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:48:09 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=69767 ¶ Hachette Looks Ahead After 8% Drop in Sales {Good E-Reader} ¶ Ownership in the Digital Age, Part 1 {Dear Author} ¶ Print Version of Nintendo Gamer Folds {Nintendo World Report} ¶ Amazon, Online Retailers Start Collecting Pa. Sales Tax {NewsWorks} ¶ UK’s Boxette Wants to Put E-Books on Bookshelves {DBW}  

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/nintendo/news-roundup-stories-you-may-have-missed-2/feed/ 0 E-Book consumers to receive refund of $0.25 – $1.32 per title in price-fixing settlement http://www.teleread.com/legal/e-book-consumers-to-receive-refund-of-0-25-1-32-per-title-in-price-fixing-settlement/ http://www.teleread.com/legal/e-book-consumers-to-receive-refund-of-0-25-1-32-per-title-in-price-fixing-settlement/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:32:50 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.teleread.com/?p=69554 Over the past few days, a wealth of information has surfaced regarding the $69 million settlement three of the so-called ‘Agency Five’ publishers will be paying to 54 states and U.S. territories for the alleged price-fixing of e-books. Still, information regarding what we consider to be two of the case’s more immediately fascinating aspects—the cash refunds due to consumers, and the [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/legal/e-book-consumers-to-receive-refund-of-0-25-1-32-per-title-in-price-fixing-settlement/feed/ 8 Hachette returning e-book access to some libraries in pilot program http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/hachette-returning-e-book-access-to-some-libraries-in-pilot-program/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/hachette-returning-e-book-access-to-some-libraries-in-pilot-program/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 01:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=65956 American Libraries Magazine has an article by ALA President Molly Raphael, who last week led a 4-person delegation to meet with Hachette Book Group and four national organizations representing authors. Raphael calls the meeting “very promising” with regard to convincing Hachette to resume providing libraries access to its newer e-book titles. (Hachette stopped providing its [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/hachette-returning-e-book-access-to-some-libraries-in-pilot-program/feed/ 0 E-book adoption still growing in UK http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-adoption-still-growing-in-uk/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-adoption-still-growing-in-uk/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 00:46:59 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-adoption-still-growing-in-uk/ FutureBook has a piece looking at the rate of e-book adoption in the UK, which is still a few years behind the US but growing year to year. The first half of the article is a confusing flood of statistics, but it seems to conclude that, as of the end of 2011, e-book sales accounted [...]

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