Ben Tarnoff believes that on the web, the profit motive and the public good are inherently at odds. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2022-06-24 12:00:51 UTC ]
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Ben Tarnoff believes that on the web, the profit motive and the public good are inherently at odds. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-06-24 12:00:51 UTC ]
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Plans to move Guildhall Library's vast collections to the London Metropolitan Archive as part of a consolidation of services have been put on hold pending a consultation and more detailed plans. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-23 04:55:30 UTC ]
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Four publishers filed a lawsuit on Monday charging the Internet Archive with copyright infringement and asking for an injunction to prevent the IA’s scanning, public display, and distribution of literary works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's entry into the pharmacy business might not have the leader you'd expect. CNBC has learned that the online retailer has picked Nader Kabbani, an executive who helped establish the Kindle self-publishing system and has worked in Flex and logi... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Search engine is lobbying hard to stop proposed tax, aimed at compensating news publishers Google’s top news executive has refused to rule out shutting down Google News in EU countries, as the search engine faces a battle with Brussels over plans to charge a “link tax” for using news... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After two days of testimony on Capitol Hill, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know: He’s sorry — really, really sorry — about that Cambridge Analytica thing, and he’s open to some degree of internet regulation. Is he really sorry? If contrition is measured in a willingness to put on a suit... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Russia's book piracy problem seems to be getting worse: in a new survey, two out of three respondents say they believe downloading pirated content is legal. The post Russian Government Figures Put Book Piracy at 25 to 30 Percent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Condé Nast's Food Innovation Group dominated 2016 in all of those areas: food, innovation and groups. FIG houses Bon Appétit (the magazine and multiple digital platforms), Epicurious (the website and app), The Farm (the branded content division), and the FIG Influencers Network (the blog... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Only five months after the Québec Government announced it would go ahead with its innovative fixed pricing legislation on new titles, the project is now dead in the water. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government is to introduce exceptions to copyright law that would allow individual users to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The company says it allows publishers to set their own prices. Several antitrust lawsuits have accused former chief Steve Jobs of inflating prices of new releases and bestsellers.Apple Inc., responding for the first time to antitrust charges levied against it and five major book publishers this... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Not that we were expecting Apple and Macmillan to simply fess up and say, "you're right, totally tried to circumvent the free market," but both companies have come out swinging pretty hard against the allegations of price fixing. Apple has rejected the charges, calling them "simply not true." A... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Justice Department has formally decided to sue Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillian, Penguin and Simon & Schuster over alleged ebook price-rigging. Apple and Macmillian have already denied any wrongdoing, saying that the agreements were enhancing competition in an industry... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government has announced it is to accept all the 28 recommendations made in Mary Portas... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's a case of having one's cake and eating it, too. Or, in this instance, digitizing the works of others and reselling them online for a 40 percent cut. According to Le Temps, a controversial new law recently passed by the French government will see out-of-print books from the 20th century... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 07/10/2011 - 08:35 Independent booksellers say the government should step in to fix the price of books after the Booksellers Association called on the coalition to do more to maintain bookshops on the high street. BA c.e.o. Tim Godfray appealed... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'The Book of Moods' author Lauren Martin, says controlling one's emotional state helps others because calm is contagious. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Dominique Raccah's popular Put Me In the Story line of personalized kids' books from Sourcebooks is picked up by Barnes & Noble. The post Sourcebooks’ ‘Put Me In the Story’: B&N Puts It In the Stores appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian police say nine people are facing charges in the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2024-04-18 00:54:39 UTC ]
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Peel police say a joint task force investigating a multimillion-dollar gold heist at Pearson airport last year has arrested multiple people, laid 19 related charges and interrupted a "large quantity of firearms" intended for import into Canada in connection with the case. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2024-04-17 11:01:09 UTC ]
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