Publishers are banding together to take on a logging company over free speech
While writers and agents and publishers and scouts and readers and booksellers flocked to the Javits Center for BookExpo earlier this month, a petition signed by more than 100 authors… Read more »
Hachette sues the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for breach of contract
The publisher Hachette is suing Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for breach of contract. According to Ashley Cullins at the Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit “can… Read more »
From James Patterson, a new line of books that are “like reading movies”
James Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most New York Times bestsellers (he’s sold about 325 million books worldwide), has a dedicated 16-person staff at Hachette’s Little, Brown imprint,… Read more »
Hachette acquires Perseus Books
In 2014, two years after the death of Perseus Books’s founder Frank Pearl, Hachette Book Group got most of the way through a deal to purchase Perseus in its entirety. Now, some eighteen months after… Read more »
Ex-Sony music mogul pockets $150,000 from book deal with Hachette, doesn’t write book
According to reports in the New York Daily News and the New York Post, former Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola is being sued by Hachette Book Group for failing to deliver… Read more »
Leading authors take Google Books copyright appeal to Supreme Court
Last week, we wrote about ‘Books at Play’, Google’s new project with experimental publisher Visual Editions to create digital reading experiences in the form of “books that cannot be printed.”… Read more »
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover
Twenty years after David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest was originally published, the iconic cloud-dappled, block-lettered book cover design has been put to bed. Last August, Wallace’s longtime publisher, Little, Brown, announced… Read more »
Little, Brown to publish memoir of Charlie Hebdo editor finished two days before his murder
It’s been nearly a year since the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, an attack that left 12 people dead after Islamic extremists opened fire during an editorial meeting at… 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 »
Scrap the tattoo: Hachette Australia cancels controversial marketing campaign
Last week, we reported on a somewhat confounding marketing idea by Hachette Australia. The company is publishing the fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series, The Girl in the Spider’s… Read more »