ePublishing Week in Brief – June 10th to 15th, 2013
ePublishing Week in Brief – June 10th to 15th, 2013
Scarlett Johansson sues a French publishing house over a book
The JC Lattes publishing house said Friday that a lawsuit was filed last week about Gregoire Delacourt’s book “The First Thing We Look At”.
llvoices Writers’ Resources: Writing in Word before publishing on Allvoices
Ernest Hemingway liked to write standing up and using a pencil.
Truman Capote told the Paris Review in 1957 that he couldn’t think unless he was lying down. “I am a completely horizontal author,” he said.
Maya Angelou prefers to do her writing in hotel rooms.
This report will focus on writing in Microsoft Word vs. writing in the Allvoices “Report your news” screen, but the resources linked to at the bottom of this report can give you more insight into the writing habits of famous authors. The links within this story will take you to images that help explain how to write in Word and save your drafts in Allvoices.
For many writers, Word offers familiar territory for the process of composition. Navigating the functions and features of the program become second nature to writers who use it on a regular basis; thoughts and ideas can flow from their heads into their fingers and onto the virtual page with ease and efficiency.
A Vietnamese Startup BiitBook Hunts for the E-book Publishing Market
I had a quick chat with Nhat Nguyen Hung, the founder and CEO of Biitbook, who says the service hopes to:
Become a place for publishers, authors, and readers to come together. A place for people who really love reading. Where authors and publishers can take control of their copyright and publishing power.
Basically, the Biitbook team of three looks to build a platform for e-books that can be read on smartphones and tablets as well as web browsers. The company is also currently working on shipping desktop apps for PC and Mac.
http://www.techinasia.com/biitbook-vietnamese-startup-hunts-ebook-publishing-market/
Software Publishing in the US Industry Market Research Report from IBISWorld has Been Updated
The Software Publishing industry experienced dynamic growth in the five years to 2013, and it is expected to grow in the current year as businesses and consumers step up their investments in software, computers and smartphones. For these reasons, industry research firm IBISWorld has updated a report on the Software Publishing industry in its growing industry report collection.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10836395.htm
Apple executive testifies book publishers wanted to raise prices
APPLE EXECUTIVE Eddy Cue faced a long day of questioning defending the firm against allegations of antitrust behaviour over its iBookstore, admitting that publishers wanted to raise book prices.
Apple’s negotiations with publishers ahead of its iBookstore launch have become the focus of a US Department of Justice (DoJ) antitrust investigation. Cue was the Apple executive that led discussions with publishing houses and he took to the stand yesterday, saying that the publishers wanted to raise prices.
Those publishers, including Pengiun, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, Hachette and Macmillian previously had to put up with Amazon’s market power that led to most books being priced at $9.99 at launch. The publishing houses then signed with Apple, with prices rising to between $12 and $14.
Dwight Opperman left publishing legacy, launched West into digital age
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A lion of Minnesota’s business community, Dwight Opperman led West Publishing to become one of the most prominent publishers of legal content in the country.
He also helped launch West into the digital age as a provider of online legal research.
Opperman died Wednesday at age 89. He will be remembered for his lifelong interest in the law and his career at West Publishing helping legal research be more thorough and efficient. By his family, he will also be remembered for his bootstrapping.
His son, Vance Opperman, recalls that Dwight Opperman grew up poor. Dwight and his first wife, Jeanice, now deceased, were both gifted musicians who in the early days of their marriage earned money by performing. But Vance said the family was effectively broke when Dwight graduated in 1951from law school at Drake University.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/06/14/news/dwight-opperman-legacy
Former West Publishing CEO Opperman has died
The Star Tribune reports that Opperman died in his Beverly Hills home Thursday morning.
Opperman joined Eagan-based West Publishing as an editor in the early 1950s and rose to become its CEO. West was sold in 1996 to what is now Thomson Reuters, which still employs about 7,700 people in the Twin Cities, according toMinneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Top 25 List research.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2013/06/13/dwight-opperman-obit.html