New Zealand Booksellers chair Hamish Wright has taken a shot at Random House Australia for selling Dan Brown’s new book The Lost Symbol directly from its website to Australian and New Zealand buyers. It’s a friendly shot, with a barb, as you’ll see from the full press release below. But, certainly as far as New [...]

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The US Register of Copyright has come out swinging against the proposed Google Book settlement, describing it as “fundamentally at odds with the law.” “By permitting Google to engage in a wide array of new uses of most books in existence the settlement would alter the landscape of copyright law,” said head Marybeth Peters in [...]

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