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Content / e-books
University of California Press in E-Book Partnership with Oxford
The University of California Press is partnering with Oxford University Press to launch California Scholarship Online/CALSO on OUP’s recently-launched University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform.
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Nancy PearlCheck It Out: with Nancy Pearl: Book Reviewing and More
The demise of the Washington Post Book World and other traditional stand-alone print book reviews, as well as the loss of space devoted to reviewing books in most American newspapers, indicates a sea change in the way readers will find books to read.
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Interviews
Going Public: PW Talks with Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis is not a man to mince words. And to the critics and curmudgeons resisting the new networked world at our doorstep, the message in his latest book, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, is clear: get with it.
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Cory Doctorow
With a Little Help: Now at Your Library
It's been nine months since the launch of With a Little Help, and, as with most trade books, the action has slowed down. All in all, the book has earned me $2,231.23 over the summer and cost me $167.88 in costs.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Files File Amended Complaint Against Libraries
The Authors Guild has filed an amended complaint that expands its suit against university libraries over a book-scanning collaborative known as HathiTrust.
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Publisher News
Podcast: PW’s Week Ahead for Friday, Sept. 23
This week, Publishers Weekly launches a new podcast series in partnership with the Copyright Clearance Center's “Beyond the Book.” Each Friday, editors from PW will join host Chris Kenneally for a quick look back at the week the week that was, and an early look at the forthcoming issue of PW.
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Soapbox
Defining ‘Library’
A few years ago, I opened the proceedings of a summit that brought together publishers, technologists, funders, and librarians by ripping the cover off a paperback book. I was attempting, feebly, to make a point about the inviolability of books.
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Publisher News
‘PW’ Adds Peter Brantley
Publishers Weekly has made two additions in our commitment to covering library issues—the launch of a dedicated library landing page at PublishersWeekly.com, and the addition of Peter Brantley, who joins PW as a contributing editor and blogger.
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Copyright
Google Settlement Parties Pursue Separate Deals
After nearly three years stumping together to get the Google Book Settlement approved, the parties in the scuttled deal are headed for litigation. At a September 15 status conference, attorneys told Judge Chin that talks were progressing raising the likelihood that the authors’ and publishers’ cases would soon be split.
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Copyright
HathiTrust Suspends Its Orphan Works Release
Following the filing of a lawsuit over its scanning and orphan works initiative, HathiTrust this morning said it would suspend indefinitely its plan to release a set of 140 orphan works until is processes for determining copyright status are improved.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Sues Libraries
With the Google Book Search Settlement in tatters, its fragile alliance splintering, and the parties now on a pretrial schedule, the Authors Guild last week expanded its infringement claims by suing a consortium of university libraries over a digital library initiative.
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Copyright
Judge Adopts Trial Schedule At Google Status Conference, but Settlement Talks Continue
The Google Books case is headed to litigation. At a status conference Thursday, Judge Denny Chin adopted a proposed trial schedule that, if followed, would have the case ready for trial by July 2012. But the conference also offered a ray of hope, as attorneys said that settlement talks were progressing
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Libraries
Library Groups Blast Authors Guild Lawsuit
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), a group of three major library associations, issued a statement yesterday expressing “deep disappointment” over the lawsuit filed this week by the Authors Guild against HathiTrust and its research library partners.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Sues Libraries Over Scan Plan
With the Google Settlement poised to meet its ultimate demise as early as Thursday, when the parties are scheduled to appear before Judge Denny Chin for a status conference, the Authors Guild yesterday filed a new lawsuit against a consortium of university libraries over a digitization initiative known as HathiTrust.
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Nancy Pearl
Check It Out with Nancy Pearl: September 2011
We asked Nancy to imagine herself on a rope line, where she would have a minute or so to bend the ear of the president or one of his would-be challengers, before security released her vise-like handshake.
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Copyright
Second Circuit Copyright Ruling Could Affect Libraries
Librarians say their core activities are in question after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision finding that the “First Sale” doctrine in U.S. copyright law—the provision that enables libraries to lend books they’ve purchased—does not apply to works manufactured outside the U.S.
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Copyright
With Final Filings, Parties in GSU E-Reserve Case Await Verdict
The parties in the closely-watched e-reserves trial at Georgia State University have filed what are likely to their final documents, and a verdict by federal judge Orinda Evans could come any day.
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Copyright
The Breakup: Are the Google Settlement Parties Headed for Splitsville?
Breaking up is hard to do, and for the parties in the Google Books litigation a potentially messy breakup looms. Can these factions make enough progress on a revised settlement agreement in the next six weeks to avoid that fate?
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Copyright
Judge Concerned with Lack of Progress in Revised Google Settlement Talks
Lawyers for the parties in the Google Book Settlement asked U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin for more time to negotiate a revised deal but, in sharp contrast to the last meeting, Chin expressed "concern" about the lack of progress and wondered whether there was in fact a deal to be made.
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Copyright
Revised Google Settlement Can Wait—But Can Judge Chin?
What’s going on with a revised Google Settlement? Some talking, but probably not very much progress, say court-watchers, noting that the odds of seeing a revised settlement proposal in 2011 may be long.
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