Why Brilliant Books is offering refunds to customers who purchased Go Set A Watchman
The publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman has been controversial. But while many have raised questions about Harper Lee’s involvement in the book’s publication, the role of her lawyer Tonja… Read more »
2015 Man Booker Prize longlist announced
Now in its second year of being open to authors of any nationality, as long as they’ve published in the UK, this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist is headlined by… Read more »
ABA, Authors Guild, Association of Authors’ Representatives, and Authors United team up to demand Amazon antitrust inquiry
A month after the European Union announced an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts, four powerful groups representing authors and bookstores are uniting to demand that the U.S. government launch a… Read more »
Man Booker International Prize and Independent Foreign Fiction Prize evolve into all powerful super prize (still known as Man Booker International Prize)
The Man Booker International Prize, which was previously awarded every other year, will now become an annual event. This “evolution” is being made possible, in part, by merger of the Man… Read more »
Apple loses antitrust appeal
Yesterday, a Federal Appeals Court located in New York City delivered a 2-1 decision upholding Judge Denise Cote’s verdict that Apple committed antitrust violations by conspiring to fix ebook prices… Read more »
The vanishing mass market: Penguin merges two mass market publishing houses to create new mass market publishing house
Earlier this week, Penguin announced it would be merging two of its mass market divisions, Berkley and New American Library, into one division, Berkley Publishing Group. According to Publishers Weekly, “Leslie Gelbman,… Read more »
Amazon celebrates last year of barely paying British taxes by barely paying British taxes
Amazon UK recorded £5.3bn in sales last year—a 14% increase in revenue compared to 2013—but paid only £11.9m in taxes (or “tax” as it is known in the UK). In 2012, Amazon… Read more »
Top EU antitrust official: “We fear that [Amazon] has grown so big that they think they can… close competition”
A week ago, the European Commission, the EU’s governing body, made a major announcement: it was launching an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts with publishers. At the time, details… Read more »
The European Commission announces antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts
Yesterday, the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, announced that it was launching a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s dominant role in the European ebook market. The investigation itself will… Read more »
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