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Libraries and ebooks: tough issues that it’s time to debate

July 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following article was published in the latest Australian Booksellers Association magazine. I wrote it a couple of months ago and some of the UK moves have been affected by the change of government. (The Digital Economy Act 2010 passed by the previous government did include Section 43 which amends copyright for some public library [...]

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Tags: analysis · bookselling · business · copyright · libraries

Google Books – here’s the Court’s official summary of amendments

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve posted below the full notice that was just sent out to rightsholders who had registered under the original settlement agreement. This is the official court summary of the key changes to the Amended Settlement filed by the parties last month. Notable, of course, is the change relating to the territories from which the published [...]

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Revised Google Books deal: Australia in, NZ out

November 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Google and a group of partners filed revised settlement terms in a US federal court on Friday. The revised terms are notable for the exclusion of works from many countries that objected to its original settlement proposal. The new proposal essentially covers just works from the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Representatives from those countries [...]

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Global Kindle: The unfolding story

October 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Following yesterday’s announcement by Amazon that the Kindle is going global from next week, there’s been a flurry of activity trying to sort out the details and implications of the announcement. Given the scale of the announcement — the move will make the Kindle, previously only available in the US, accessible to readers in 100 [...]

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Amazon’s global Kindle move is a game changer

October 8th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Amazon’s Kindle is going global. From October 19, customers in 100 countries will be able to buy a Kindle, buy ebooks from the Kindle’s 200,000+ English language titles, and do it all over the wireless network that has made the Kindle so popular. [Update: 1:37pm Just had a call to tell me that Amazon is [...]

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