A U.S. judge has thrown out a long-standing copyright infringement case brought against Google by the Authors Guild, saying the company’s book-scanning project provides significant benefits to the public. Judge Denny Chin, formerly of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eight years after a group of authors and publishers sued Google for scanning more than 20 million library books without the permission of rights holders, a federal judge has ruled that the web giant's sweeping book project stayed within the bounds of U.S. copyright law. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spurred by revelations of how the National Security Agency is collecting information on citizens, the Campaign for Reader Privacy has issued a statement calling for Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google's Books project, which has indexed millions of titles and made them available online, hasn't always been on completely solid legal footing. After all, Books operates without the permission of authors, which has understandably drawn some ire from copyright holders, not to mention other web ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book Country, the Penguin Group’s online writing community and self-publishing platform, has launched a curated page on Kickstarter, the popular online crowdfunding site, to highlight funding projects by Book Country members. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ross Levinsohn, CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media, publisher of Adweek, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, is on the growing list of industry executives set to speak at the inaugural 2014 Digital Entertainment World conference in Los Angeles. The global marketplace and conference, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Tamblyn, the Chief Content Officer at Kobo, offers an update on the ebookseller's magazine store, kids shop and international expansion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Quarto Group has completed the consolidation of its three London offices into two, with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has apologised for a children’s book that omits Israel from a map of the Middle... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Thursday, Contently, a hot little company, held a buzzy conference at the Bowery Hotel on a very of-the-moment topic. The conference, the Brand Publishing Summit, included clients, agencies and publishers, with a lot of chatter about brands goi ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
New York Yankees superstar shortstop Derek Jeter is joining with S&S to launch Jeter Publishing, an elaborate co-publishing partnership that will release picture books, middle-grade fiction, adult nonfiction, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
An app has been produced for author-illustrator Shaun Tan’s latest title, Rules of Summer (... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A substantial donation to the Red Cross was made, with concern for the nearly 1,400 PRH employees in the Author Solutions division who work in Cebu, an area very near where the greatest devastation has taken place. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has launched a dedicated Australian Kindle store, selling more than 2m ebooks. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazines president David Carey announced the hire of Toronto-based Chatelaine editor-in-chief Jane Francisco as editor-in-chief at company flagship Good Housekeeping. Per Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Lawson finds authorial controversy and romantic scrawl in an imitation library bookCreators of popular television have often invoked comparisons with written fiction: Dennis Potter and Steve Bochco both used the term "TV novel" to describe series such as Potter's The Singing Detective and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Zimbabwean author S.N. Mahachi-Harper reflects on how her childhood in a mining village inspired her new most recent novel Footprints in the Mists of Time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn are objecting to the U.S. government's decision to provide them only a redacted version of its response to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to a request by the companies that they be allowed to publish information on users' data requests... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to brands as publishers on YouTube, it's typically Red Bull or GoPro's world. But not last week. Instead, a pair of luxury brands proved to be unexpected YouTube stars, thanks to Martin Scorsese, Matthew McConaughey and David Bowie. Last week, an arty, black-and-white... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller has officially unveiled the final programme for its digital conference, FutureBook... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]