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• Sherlock Holmes estate charged with “copyfraud”

  One lawyer’s passion for Sherlock Holmes has staked him against Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s rather litigious estate, and placed him squarely in the ongoing debate over literary estate overreach and… Read more »

• Visit Melville House’s publishers and staffers at the AWP in Boston March 7 – 9

  The AWP, otherwise known as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, is holding its annual conference and bookfair this weekend in Boston, and Melville House will be there!  Come… Read more »

• The rise of the agent model in Chinese publishing

  With China’s domestic book market booming, and spurred by the rabid demand for the work of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the nation’s publishing industry has set its sights on a… Read more »

• Is showrooming unstoppable?

  Indie booksellers have been complaining for a while now about “showrooming” — whereby shoppers go to a brick-and-mortar store to look at books they’re interested in, then buy them from… Read more »

• DSK petitions for book to be banned, gets cash instead

  For weeks, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn—better known in France by his initials “DSK”—has attempted to block the publication of Belle et Bête, which was written by a former DSK… Read more »

• Is Kevin Small the biggest player in business-book publishing?

  Kevin Small isn’t your typical powerful book publishing veteran. He went to ultra-conservative Liberty University and gets excited when a Chick-fil-a opens near his office. But he does bring a certain newcomer’s… Read more »

• Anti-piracy three strike system begins this week

  On Monday, five of the United States’ largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) initiated the new Copyright Alert System, so now would be the time to start downloading Girls on your neighbor’s… Read more »

• ALA joins protest of SLAPP lawsuit brought by publisher against librarian

  Ever since the news came out that Edwin Mellen Press was suing librarian Dale Askey and his current employer, McMaster University in Ontario, over a blog post criticizing the press… Read more »

• German publishers pull books from Amazon in wake of warehouse scandal

  As a result of revelations of employee intimidation… Read more »

• Indie booksellers sue Amazon and the Big Six over DRM

  Hoping to change the lines of engagement over e-books and DRM… Read more »