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The new draft of the Google Book Settlement was due yesterday but the parties asked (and was granted) until Friday to present a new settlement agreement. Given that the biggest part of the GBKS were orphan works and that was what drew the biggest complaints, I wonder how any new settlement could address this.
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Amazon engaged [...]

For the orphans of BEA, there has been great internet coverage from established publications and from the new media (aka bloggers!).
Smart Bitch Sarah attended the Harlequn Art Show.  Harlequin had awesome swag including vintage covers on matchbook type notepads.  She (and Harlequin) are giving away two bags full of this awesome swag.
Publishers Weekly had these [...]

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, campaigned hard on Friday on behalf of the Amazon e-reading device. Booksellers are becoming increasingly nervous about the rise of ebooks. According to the New York Times article, Amazon is selling many of its Kindle books below what it costs to buy the book from the publisher. [...]