Received the following press release:
Harvardwood is a unique organization of more than 2,500 Harvard alumni,
students, faculty and staff in Hollywood, the media and entertainment
worlds, and the arts. In collaboration with Unlimited Publishing LLC,
Harvardwood is proud to announce an exciting new program to publish e-Books
for the iPad, iPhone, iTouch and other smartphones by its members: [...]
In the first of a series of articles Michael Bhaskar discusses the state of digital commentary. It’s a really good read and makes a lot of sense. It’s about time somebody took on the commentators who are speaking from a platform of ignorance.
… While there is a lot of good commentary, much of [...]
Download Squad is reporting that an Apple threatened to remove an iPhone application because it contained a mention, in it’s description, that the app was also a finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge. For the app to remain available in the store the developer had to remove any reference to “Android”.
Now I wonder [...]
And now on to royalties. Three or four weeks ago, we began discussions with the Author’s Guild on their concerns about our new royalty terms. We indicated then that we would be flexible and that we were prepared to move to a higher rate for digital books. In ongoing discussions with our major agents at [...]
According to the several sources, Macmillan received a standing ovation. Shelf Awareness reports:
“And special thanks and a show of support to the Macmillan companies in the face of bullying tactics by one of our largest competitors.”–Michael Tucker, head of Books Inc. and president of the American Booksellers Association, speaking yesterday at the opening of [...]