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Tanner moves to Google Books
Mark Tanner has been appointed to the newly created position of strategic partner development manager for Google Books in Australia and New Zealand. Tanner is currently the Australian manager of publi...
UK Booksellers Association announces Google deal
The UK Booksellers Association has signed a deal that will allow its member stores to sell ebooks from Google Editions 'later this year', as well as sharing its member database with Google to allow fo...
Giants 'light years away from the book trade'
A UK conference has heard how the strategies of internet giants such as Google, Apple and Amazon is 'light years away' from that of the book trade.
Google settlement could breach US treaties and cause 'diplomatic stress'
In a legal analysis done for the Open Book Alliance, intellectual property lawyer Cynthia Arato, a partner at the law firm of Macht, Shapiro, Arato and Isseries, reiterated her belief that ...
revised summary of Google settlement issues
With the Google Settlement now in the hands of a federal judge, The Public Index, a group organized by New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann and his students, have updated and posted a rev...
Bowker to provide ISBNs for Google Editions
Bowker (the parent company of WBN's publisher Thorpe-Bowker) has announced that it will provde ISBNs for any ebooks sold by Google Editions that do not already have an ISBN assigned by their publisher...
Google ebook store to open in July
Google will begin selling ebooks direct to consumers 'by the end of July'. Google Editions will sell ePub formatted ebooks that can be read on a wide range of devices....
Google Settlement judge promoted
Judge Danny Chin, who is presiding over the Google Settlement, has been appointed to the US Court of Appeal. It is not clear if he will be able to finalise his judgement on the Google case before taki...
Photographers sue Google over book scanning
In the latest twist to the long-running Google Books saga, photographers are now suing Google for copyright infringement for scanning their images published in books
Amazon ebook share to fall as others step up
Amazon, Apple and Google will 'eventually split the market' for ebooks, with Amazon relinquishing its current 90% market share, a report by Credit Suisse predicts.
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