I Threw My P-book And Broke My Wii!
Could publishers be about to unveil a “subscription” model for reading? You know, like Spotify for music – or Netflix for movies? Would it work – and crucially, what chance would long-suffering...
View ArticleThe Truth About “The Jewel Of Medina”
“The Jewel Of Medina” has the reputation of being one of the most controversial books of recent years… on par with “The Satanic Verses” and the Danish cartoons of Mohammed for its ability to cause...
View ArticleMike Tyson’s Tattoo & A Renegade Agent
Who owns the copyright to Mike Tyson’s facial tattoo? And other intriguing legal issues on this edition of the internet’s favorite show about writing and the law. Presented by Donna Ballman with Peter...
View ArticleDon’t Like The Book? Sue The Author!
Should authors sign non-complete clauses? Can you include song lyrics in your manuscript? And readers suing authors for books they don’t happen to like… it seems to be a growing, and disturbing,...
View ArticleBarney The Copyright Monster
A new and frightening way of limiting our free speech… How Barney got into a copyright mess… Why you should never sing Happy Birthday… and the inside poop on jury nullification. All this and more on...
View ArticleEddie Izzard Is Evil!
Not really – but the English lawyer he plays in “The Good Wife” certainly is… another stupefyingly ballsy case of plagiarism… copyright is failing to feed artists… and Donna has some terrific personal...
View ArticleHere Comes Your Monster Lawsuit!
The Google Book Settlement has been abandoned – but like some monstrous zombie rising from the dead, the litigation continues. Attorneys for the Authors Guild have filed a motion for class...
View ArticleActing Up Over ACTA, Dicing With DRM
This week we talk about why some works you thought were public domain might be back in copyright; why Wikipedia went dark; how a copyright law that did pass may affect you; school-book censorship;...
View ArticleDonna Is Sheriff For A Day
This week we talk about Amazon taking its name a little too seriously, why Paramount wants a Mario Puzo screenplay to sleep with the fishes, a trademark battle over an ape man, putting pirates out of...
View ArticleWhen Good Lawyers Go Bad
This week we talk about how the world is about to change for ebooks in a big way and why we need to be worried, a presidential candidate who thinks he can use your work without paying, a suit over...
View ArticleDigital Rights Moratorium (or How We Learned To Mom-Proof E-Books)
It will become known as the night the moms finally killed off Digital Rights Management. Or how publishers learned to feel the fear but did it anyway. The first ever broadcast of The Naked Book heard...
View ArticleBringing Up Baby
Launching a virtual world, ahem, ‘experience’, it’s easy street. Just ask Pottermore’s Charlie Redmayne who revealed exclusively on The Naked Book that his site had shifted £1m worth of Harry Potter...
View ArticleShiny, Happy, Publishing People
As the great circus of publishing delights that is the annual London Book Fair disappears from view for another year, this week’s The Naked Book finally found out what it was all about. Just Be...
View ArticleThe Porn Supremacy
In the week that Microsoft bought a fifth of Barnes & Noble’s digital businesses, and we learned that e-books sales grew 360% in the UK last year, we thought at The Naked Book we’d ignore all that...
View ArticleThe Broadcast Takeover
Television is an increasingly important area for writers and the publishing industry generally. As the book market becomes ever more competitive, the writer’s platform has to grow in as many ways as...
View ArticleIn The Land Of The E, The Glassy-Eyed Are King
Imagine if you will the final moments of Bugsy Malone, as reinvented for radio. That was this week’s Naked Book with authors Ewan Morrison and Barry Eisler slinging pies across Skype, as they sought to...
View ArticleTête à tête with Faber’s Stephen Page
Having scaled the walls of Faber’s well-manicured garden eleven years ago, Faber chief executive Stephen Page found himself in the broadcast hot-seat, sandwiched between Naked Bookers Philip Jones and...
View ArticleChild’s Play
In the flurry of e-book and print books sales stats, we know for certain that the children’s market does not conform to the wider market’s results. Still a predominantly print-based market it is the...
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