Publishing NewsAuthors Guild / copyright / digital books / digital lending / digital publishing / Fair Use / Google / Libraries / Self-publishing5 Comments
Authors Guild asks court to rule against Google – From the files of ‘give it up already,’ the Authors Guild has filed an appeal with the 2nd Circuit, obviously unhappy with Judge Chin’s dismissal of their suit against Google. The Authors Guild is claiming that Google is engaging in anti-competitive ... more >
Publishing Newscopyright / defamation / digital publishing / Fair Use / gender / Harper Collins11 Comments
Judge Rules for HarperCollins in Open Road E-Book Dispute – In a copyright dispute between Open Road and Harper Collins publishers, Harper Collins has been awarded a judgment against Open Road for copyright infringement. The book in question, Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George, was published in digital ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / copyright / cover-art / digital lending / digital publishing / gaming / plagiarism / Self-publishing13 Comments
Author Earnings – The Report – Here’s a link to the much discussed “report” by Hugh Howey that he’s using to assert the supremacy of self-publishing. His data captures two days of sales and then extrapolates annual earnings based on one placement on the charts. Without question, Howey’s data is ... more >
Publishing Newscopyright / focus groups / literacy / online harassment / Sony20 Comments
Sony to axe 5,000 jobs and sell Vaio unit – One more story on Sony, this one on the company’s plans to stop manufacturing its VAIO PC and to cut its “global workforce” by 5,000 jobs over the next year. With anticipated losses of more than $1 billion for the ... more >
Publishing NewsAdobe / copyright / DRM / intellectual property / LibraryThing / plagiarism / tattoos10 Comments
People always say the same thing about tattoos – File this under: everything old is new again. A brief history, not of tattooing, but of reactions to tattoos, from shocked to scandalized to excited. As Matt Lodder explains, the reputation tattoos have as being associated with certain groups of people ... more >
Publishing Newsacademic publishing / Amazon / copyright / detective fiction / Japan / Newspapers / open access / poetry9 Comments
Retail in Seattle: In the Shadow of Amazon – If any book selling market seems like it would suffer because of Amazon’s presence, it’s Seattle. And yet, this article suggests that is far from the case; in fact, despite the obvious challenges, there are some interesting examples here of booksellers ... more >