Judge Pan Releases Antitrust Publishing Case Opinion
With one especially dominant firm in the market, there would be fewer bidders for book rights with negative impact on negotiations for those rights.
With one especially dominant firm in the market, there would be fewer bidders for book rights with negative impact on negotiations for those rights.
Upon review of the extensive record and careful consideration of the parties’ arguments’, the government successfully showed that the effect of the proposed merger, ‘may be to substantially to lessen competition’ in the market for the U.S. publishing rights to anticipated top-selling books.
Supply chain issues have troubled book publishers since the pandemic began over two and a half years ago. As 2022 nears its end, the logistics gremlins are dramatically showing up in the bottom line.
The world’s largest publishing conference returned to the famous Frankfurter Messe this week.
The RELX Group remained the world’s largest book publisher in 2021.
The National Book Awards ceremony is planned as “in-person” event in NYC for the first time in three years.
For the book world and for readers, proprietary editions of a freely available public report will likely prove quite successful, says Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly senior writer.
Through the first eight months of 2022, ALA has recorded 681 attempts to ban or restrict library resources in schools, universities, and public libraries.
Post-trial briefs likely serve as the penultimate act before Judge Florence Pan rules in the antitrust case.
The daily grind of life in the book publishing industry has come under close inspection this week in a much-discussed Publishers Weekly feature.