A notice from the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) highlights a problem that will affect most non-US authors and publishers if the proposed Google Books Settlement is ratified by… Read more >
Amazon’s move to pull copies of George Orwell’s 1984 novel without warning from Kindles has opened it up to attack from civil libertarians and others concerned about the Big Brother… Read more >
July 28, 2009 analysis, bookselling, business, ebook formats, news 1 Read more >
European regulators are asking publishers for feedback on how they see the proposed Google Books settlement. The move comes soon after the US Justice Department said it was investigating Google… Read more >
I was disappointed by the commentary that greeted this announcement by New Zealand’s National Business Review publisher Barry Colman to start (again) charging for some content. Comment ranged from the… Read more >
Spain’s three biggest publishers have joined forces to form a digital distributor with the aim of influencing how the Spanish-language ebook market develops. The three companies — Planeta, Random House Mondadori,… Read more >
Take a look at the chart behind Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, on stage at the launch of the big-screen Amazon Kindle DX last week. Bezos revealed that, where Kindle editions… Read more >
If this Ars Technica story is correct, reporting on a National Business Review claim, New Zealand is about to see a wholesale review of its copyright legislation. The NBR story,… Read more >
The NZ$100 million upgrade to New Zealand’s National Library building has prompted debate about whether it’s money well spent. The latest contribution to this debate from the New Zealand Herald’s… Read more >
April 22, 2009 analysis, bookselling, business, ebook lending, libraries 18 Read more >
At last week’s Digital Publishing seminars, we touched on the topic of how to price an ebook. There are many ways you can arrive at a price. It’s a really… Read more >
US publisher Simon and Schuster has announced that its ebook royalties will shift to a payment based on percentage of net receipts rather than a share of the list price…. Read more >