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Earnings: Lagardere Q1 Revenue Flat Overall, Digital Rises Sharply - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 07 May 2008 03:28 AM PST

French media giant Lagardere reported earnings for the three months ending 31 March 2008 on Tuesday. Consolidated revenues for the entire group were down 4 percent to 1.8 billion euros…

Broadband Content Bits: C4 Catch Up; Gurgle Books; Cheapflights; Virgin Radio TV; ITV Social Support - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 02 May 2008 02:42 AM PST

— Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The click-and-play streaming service is in addition to its…

GoSpoken Launches Mobile Audiobook Service With Random House Authors - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 18 Apr 2008 04:38 AM PST

London, UK-based mobile start-up GoSpoken has launched a mobile service that allows users to browse, buy and download audio books. The service is compatible with 3G phones, but the company…

London Book Fair: Penguin Syncs Digital With Print; Random House Widgetises Retail - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 04:20 AM PST

At the London Book Fair this week, several publishers are making announcements aimed at improving their digital strategies. Penguin will, from September, start releasing digital editions in the .epub format…

Books For Free? Desperate Authors Look To Retain Income - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 01 Apr 2008 04:13 AM PST

Could authors start giving their material away for free to try to combat piracy? Society Of Authors chair Tracy Chevalier, complaining about digital copying, suggests yes. This glum assessment in…

Bertelsmann 07 Revs Fall 2.8 Percent; Considers Sale Of Direct Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 18 Mar 2008 04:39 AM PST

German media group Bertelsmann has announced full-year 2007 revenues of €18.8 billion, a 2.8 percent decrease from €19.3 billion in the previous year. Due to various charges this year, including…

Penguin To Test DRM-Free Audio Books - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 04 Mar 2008 06:12 AM PST

Picking up from yesterday’s Pearson earnings, the company said its Penguin book publisher would follow the decision by Bertelsmann’s Random House last week to drop DRM from its audio books.…

Industry Moves: MyKindaPlace Founder Redmayne To Head HarperCollins Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 20 Feb 2008 08:57 AM PST

Charlie Redmayne, MD of BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) teen girl portal MyKindaPlace, is leaving to head up HarperCollins’ digital publishing efforts. Redmayne, who has latterly been head of Sky’s commercial partnerships…

Amazon Defies French Book Price Law, Mobilises Campaign - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 01 Feb 2008 02:18 AM PST

Hit with a ban on delivering books for free by a 26-year-old French law, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is defying the ruling - and trying to win customers’ support for legal…

Welsh Writers Demand Digital Rights Payments - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 28 Jan 2008 03:49 AM PST

Writers are demanding royalties before they grant permission to allow their work to be included in the National Library of Wales’ online archive. The BBC reports that a year after…

Swedish Authorities Expected To Charge File Sharing Service The Pirate Bay - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 15 Jan 2008 06:30 AM PST

Swedish prosecutors are expected to charge the operators of Swedish file sharing service The Pirate Bay with “conspiracy to breach copyrights,” later this month according to the Wall Street Journal.…

Booksellers Warned To Sell Digital Or Risk Publishers’ Dominance - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 04 Dec 2007 02:07 AM PST

And you thought Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) was the best thing to happen to books since Gutenberg? The Booksellers’ Association last week published a paper (via FT.com) calling on its members…

HarperCollins To Launch Author/Reader Community - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 18 Nov 2007 07:03 PM PST

Publisher HarperCollins will soon launch a website, Authonomy.co.uk, which “will allow unpublished authors to upload their manuscripts for others to read and comment on. The website will provide an opportunity…

HarperCollins UK Takes Another Step Into The World Of Social Networking - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 11 Oct 2007 03:40 AM PST

HarperCollins UK is making another move into social networking: the News Corp. (NYSE: NWS)-owned publisher is launching a new MySpace-like online community it is calling Authonomy to connect “unpublished authors,…

John Wiley Acquires UK Travel Info Site Whatsonwhen - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Thu 19 Oct 2006 06:12 AM PST

John Wiley & Sons has acquired the UK travel and entertainment site Whatsonwhen.com for an undisclosed amount. The site publishes a calendar of global cultural events, builds white-label travel sites…

Chinese eBook Firm ChineseAll Gets Venture Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 21 Jun 2006 05:07 PM PST

ChineseAll, a Chinese online/eBook publishing firm, has received first round of funding...the amount and the investors was undisclosed. The company, about six years old, has book rights from over 200…

French Publisher To Sue Google Over Book Scanning - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Jun 2006 09:07 AM PST

French publisher Groupe de La Martiniere says Google is “counterfeiting” and breaching IP rights by scanning some 100 books and is filing suit in Paris for damages of 100,000 euros…