Turf Wars round two: the battle for digital.

This article discusses executives at British publishing companies who are unhappy with the U.S. branch of the publisher HarperCollins because of the company's insistence on retaining the global digital rights for book titles that it sells in England. The U.S. branch of publisher Simon & Schuster is...

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Publicado en:Bookseller no. 5329; p. 3
Autor principal: Page, Benedicte
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Bookseller Media Ltd 4/25/2008
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Sumario:This article discusses executives at British publishing companies who are unhappy with the U.S. branch of the publisher HarperCollins because of the company's insistence on retaining the global digital rights for book titles that it sells in England. The U.S. branch of publisher Simon & Schuster is also retaining the rights to books it sells in Britain. Simon Juden, the chief executive officer of the Publishers Association, discusses his belief that the electronic rights to the book should come hand-in-hand with the print rights.