18. Publishers Lunch, April 29, 2010 Scott Turow was formally elected president of the Authors Guild, taking over from Roy Blount, who served for four years. Blount's advice: "See this Google thing through, make sure Amazon doesn't take over the book industry, find out why e-book royalty rates are so shamefully low , and keep the digital pirates at bay. The rest should take care of itself."
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Vicky Wells, Director of Contracts and Subsidiary Rights at University of North Carolina Press where I’ve worked for 16 years. I’ve organized several workshops for AAUP, a Copyright Workshop at the Southern Presses in Chapel Hill in 1997, a Rights Workshop in St. Petersburg in 2002 and Rights in the Digital Marketplace in Philadelphia last year, which is why I was asked to form this panel. I’ve served on the Copyright Committee for several years, including two years as chair. My involvement with ebooks began in 1998 when I joined our Press’s now disbanded cross-departmental E-pub committee – no longer needed as ebooks are now integral to our publishing business.
Amazon released the Kindle First Generation on November 19, 2007, and it sold out in five and a half hours. The device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008. On February 10, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle 2. The Kindle 2 features a 6-inch, 16-level grayscale display, improved battery life, 20 percent faster page-refreshing, a text-to-speech option. On May 6, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle DX, which retails for $489. It is the first Kindle model with an accelerometer , automatically rotating pages between landscape and portrait orientations if the device is turned on its side, unless automatic rotation is disabled by the user.
On January 27, 2010 Apple® introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books. iPad’s high-resolution Multi-Touch™ display lets users physically interact with applications and content. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds— thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. iPad priced at $499.
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Krista Coulson has worked on e-books at the University of Wisconsin Press since 2006 and has been its Electronic Publishing Manager since February 2009. In addition to running the Press’s e-book program, she manages permissions, copyright, and contract reviews. Annually, she presents “Copyright on Campus,” an educational workshop, with the Office of Legal Services and UW-Libraries. She has a variety of online teaching experience and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the UW-Madison. Laura Young Bost has been the Rights & Permissions Manager at the University of Texas Press since 1997. Laura has been a member of the AAUP Copyright Committee since 1999, and contributed to its Author Guidelines which provide basic information to AAUP member presses on copyright, public domain, “fair use” and other scholarly publishing issues. She was a member of the University of Texas “Copyright Cowboys” a working group at UT, and is a member of the Press’s library-press collaboration group. She handles all digital projects at the Press, and handles translations and other subsidiary rights.
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