Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement
Science AAAS
Now, the U.S. government has jumped in as an enforcer, warning one open access publisher to stop misusing the names of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the agency's employees in promotional material. Open-access journals make articles ...



Rodale Announces New Publishing Partner For Men's Health Italy
PR Newswire (press release)
Published 10 times a year in the U.S. by Rodale, Men's Health is the best-selling men's magazine on newsstands and provides its readers with up-to-the-minute information on health, fitness, style, nutrition, relationships, travel, technology and ...

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Scientific Journals Adapt to New US Trade Sanctions on Iran
Science AAAS
Scientific journals are being asked to help tighten U.S. trade sanctions on Iran. On 30 April, the Dutch publishing behemoth Elsevier of the Netherlands sent a note to its editorial network saying that all U.S. editors and U.S. reviewers must "avoid ...

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IRS Concludes Book Publisher's Activities Don't Qualify For Section 199 Deduction
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
A Section 199 deduction is available for qualified property produced in the United States. Qualified property includes tangible personal property, computer software and sound recordings. Therefore, the IRS concluded, because the taxpayer was creating ...



Wiley stops publishing Canadian business books: Roseman
Toronto Star
Wiley Canada is suspending its local operations — except for sales and marketing — and centralizing its professional and trade publishing in the United States. “This is difficult news to deliver and absorb,” said an email last week from long-time ...

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eBooks Account for 20% of all Book Sales in the United States
Good E-Reader (blog)
eBooks are on the rise for the entire trade publishing sector, and they tend to net the entire publishing industry with stable growth. A recent survey conducted by Bookstats has stated that ebooks now account for 20% of all books sold in the US in 2012 ...

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GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING ACQUIRES GOOD MORNING AMERICA ...
ABC News (blog)
Of the acquisition, Raab said, “I have long admired Robin Roberts's career and courage and am so honored to be publishing her book. Her story is both dramatic and inspiring, and will capture the incredible spirit that has endeared her to all of us who ...

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Help us help the less fortunate
Nashoba Publishing
Letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities across America will join forces to help stamp out hunger. On Saturday, postal employees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands will collect nonperishable food ...

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EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Information Services Merge
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
“The business will operate under the EBSCO Information Services name as this better describes our overall activities than the name EBSCO Publishing. However, we know that most of our customers know us and refer to us simply as 'EBSCO' and this is fine ...

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Over a thousand activists sign full-page ad to close Guantanamo
MSNBC
The group has an ongoing fundraising campaign in hopes of publishing the ad elsewhere in the United States and internationally, Sweet said. “The exciting part is we were able to gather a lot of young and emerging activists who have not been in this ...


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