Apple made several announcements yesterday which can drive the textbook’s digital transformation — or, in Steve Jobs’ more colourful phrase, its “digital destruction”. My pick is that this will be… Read more >
January 21, 2012 Apple, copyright, ebook formats, Educational publishing, iOS, iPad 2 Read more >
Australian bookselling icon Dymocks last week launched a self-publishing service called D Publishing. While the service looks fine, its publishing contract is dreadful. Even if you’re not in Australia, you… Read more >
December 16, 2011 analysis, business, copyright, news 11 Read more >
The post below was written for the June 2011 issue of the Australian Booksellers Association magazine News on Bookselling. It was written shortly after the rejection by Judge Chin of… Read more >
May 31, 2011 business, copyright, Google, Google eBooks, Google Editions 2 Read more >
A plan to create a vast digital library by scanning millions of books without explicit copyright permission has been thrown out in a long-awaited ruling issued today by New York… Read more >
March 23, 2011 analysis, copyright, Google, libraries 1 Read more >
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… Read more >
July 6, 2010 analysis, bookselling, business, copyright, ebook lending, libraries 5 Read more >
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… Read more >
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… Read more >
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… Read more >
October 9, 2009 bookselling, copyright, ebook readers, news 4 Read more >
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… Read more >
October 8, 2009 analysis, bookselling, copyright, ebook readers, iphone, news 6 Read more >
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… Read more >