Publishers

More than 100 pages of court filings precede a hearing expected this week in the US publishers' lawsuit of Amazon's Audible. Publishers allege copyright infringement, the audiobook company asserts fair use.

The new publisher Boldwood Books in London has placed a robust rights strategy at the heart of its business model. The house is seeking world English language rights for commercial fiction in print, ebook, and audio formats. Chief executive Amanda Ridout argues that conditions have never been better for a start-up publisher to exploit rights globally.

Profits rose in 2018 over 2017 at four of the five major trade publishers that report their financial information-and the one company at which earnings were down, Lagardère Publishing, reported an increase in profits at its U.S. subsidiary, Hachette Book Group.  Read more

While times have been upbeat in the book world, with almost universal good results for publishers, the same cannot be said of news media, and in particular digital news media. Whereas a few years ago startup news companies, backed by aggressive venture capital and touting technologically turbo-charged journalism, were riding high, now they are in full-on crisis mode.  Read more

When Penguin and Random House announced in the fall of 2012 that they intended to merge, Hurricane Sandy was barreling toward New York City, America's publishing capital.  Read more