US copyright office fights for international rightsholders. Where were our...
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 a wide array of...
View ArticleAmazon’s global Kindle move is a game changer
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...
View ArticleGlobal Kindle: The unfolding story
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...
View ArticleRevised Google Books deal: Australia in, NZ out
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...
View ArticleGoogle Books – here’s the Court’s official summary of amendments
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...
View ArticleLibraries and ebooks: tough issues that it’s time to debate
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....
View ArticleControversial Google Books plan rejected by judge, door left open for a...
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 District Court Judge...
View ArticleWhat next for Google after the Google Books Settlement rejection
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 the Google Books...
View ArticleCould this be Australia’s worst publishing contract? And bookselling icon...
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,...
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Analysis: Apple’s iBooks 2.0 is big, smart, and will be the ‘Kindle moment’...
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 the...
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