News Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn took to Twitter to complain about people submitting ebooks about fake COVID-19 cures through their self-publishing platform. So far, Kobo is rejecting more than half of submitted titles that deal with the virus: “They are filled with near-criminal snake-oil quackery, conspiracy theories, and raw disinformation.” He also takes issue with titles … Read more
Keylight Books, just launched by Turner, will publish fiction that’s ultimately meant to be licensed for the screen. The publisher is already partnered with a TV/film rights packager and has closed 10 film and TV deals. Learn more from Rachel Deahl in Publishers Weekly.
Knowing term options and building publisher relationships can help authors negotiate favorable deals, keep information flowing, and recover from inevitable mishaps
A recently developed tool helps both traditional and self-published authors track contracts and rights.
ALLi hopes to mitigate the challenges of selling rights to your book in a foreign language.
EU legislation designed to make big tech content providers more accountable to rights holders may stifle small-scale competition.
Major publishers are revisiting how they make ebooks available to libraries—with Macmillan deciding to embargo new releases for two months.
The Author’s Guild makes the point that the key form of pirated book is digital. The Guild lists three forms of book piracy.
Publishers and authors’ organizations say copyright law doesn’t allow for Audible’s audiobook feature that shows the text as it’s read aloud.
The small claims court for copyright protection cases has passed its Senate committee markup and is much closer to passage in Washington.