Authors Guild president and perennial best-seller Scott Turow wrote a letter to ICANN last week claiming that Amazon’s virtual land grab offers a limitless potential for abuse. For Turow, at least, Amazon is not presumed innocent (ba dum bum). In ICANN’s defense, there are a few ...
The acquisition, terms of which Amazon.com did not reveal, will close in the second quarter of this year. Goodreads, founded in 2007, has more than 16m members, who have added more than four books per second to their “want to read” shelves over the past 90 days, according to Amazon....
it's unlikely the deal would ever materialize. That's because Hachette would have to agree to it, and the publisher on Tuesday called the idea "suicidal." To some, including best-selling writer Scott Turow, Amazon's offering looks like a PR ploy, rather than a genuine...
Amazon is pressuring the Hachette Book Group, a subsidiary of French company Lagardere, as the two renegotiate their contract, according to US media reports. Noticed tactics include delaying delivery of Hachette books and not discounting works handled by the publisher, and suggesting that readers loo...
books is, arguably, publishing’s Alamo. What angered the government wasn’t the price, but the way the publishers seemed to have secretly arranged to raise it. Many publishers and authors were flabbergasted, accusing the Obama administration of having gone after the wrong culprit. Scott Turow,...
Stephen King, Nora Roberts, Scott Turow and Robert Caro are among those urging Jeff Bezos to end his "scorched earth tactics"
SUSPECTby Scott Turow (Grand Central, $29.00). For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has...
court in Washington State seeking to enjoin a Ukraine-based piracy site called KISS library.The site, which operates under a number of different domain names using a “sophisticated” legitimate-looking site designed to deceive consumers, is said to sell illegall...