Search Results by tag: copyright

Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

[This post has been updated] The debate surrounding Amazon's planned Canadian expansion has produced many arguments both for (the editorial boards at The Globe and Mail and National Post) and against (the Canadian Booksellers Association, ... Read More »

March 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Google issues apology to Chinese writers

By Laura Godfrey

After a long copyright debate, Google has offered an apology to Chinese authors, admitting that they treated them unfairly. The country's authors were in an uproar when they discovered that Google had digitized their works ... Read More »

January 12, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Google Editions, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Google announces that its online e-book service, known as Google Editions, will launch sometime in the first half of 2010. According to a report on CNET, Google will take ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Terminatrix Palin, Wild Things art, and the interactive Proust questionnaire

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Sarah Palin's HarperCollins editor has a double life, The Daily Beast reports. He also helped work on the satirical title published during Palin's VP run, Terminatrix: The Sarah Palin Chronicles Just ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian government hosts online copyright forum

By Steven W. Beattie

With very little fanfare, and smack in the middle of the summer vacation season, the government of Canada has set up a website to solicit Canadians' opinions about "the important issue of copyright." Spearheaded by ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Cheap irony alert: Orwell removed from Kindle

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Associated Press: A pirated e-book of 1984 led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers. Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Territorial copyright for Australian books at risk

By Suzanne Gardner

Australia's Productivity Commission has recommended to the federal government that it lift all restrictions on parallel importation of books, according to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald. Quillblog linked to this story back in ... Read More »

July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

New Web forum will look at Google Book Search settlement

By Stuart Woods

A new project is underway to foster public discussion about the ramifications of the Google Book Search settlement, the New York Law School announced this week. The initiative will see the launch of a new ... Read More »

May 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Yet more developments in the Google Book Search settlement

By Eric Emin Wood

In response to the rallying opposition to the Google Book Search settlement, a federal judge in New York has extended the opt-out deadline, giving authors an additional four months to consider Google's terms. As if that weren't enough, the ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates