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Google Editions: Palma outlines Google's ebook plans
As an addendum event to Monday's digital publishing symposium in Melbourne, a ‘digital chat' session featuring New Zealand Digital Publishing Forum founder Martin Taylor and Google's Chris Palma...
Amended Google Settlement to include only Australian, US, UK and Canadian rights holders
Works by Australian rightsholders are among the significantly reduced number of titles affected by the Google Settlement, after an amended Settlement was filed in the US last week. The proposed ...
Opponents ask for more time to assess revised Google Settlement
A group of opponents to the Google Book Search Settlement have filed a letter urging judge on the case, Denny Chin, 'not to restrict comments on a revised settlement and to allow more time for wo...
French publishers and authors take Google to court
The French Publishers Association and Society of Authors have taken Google to court, with Editions Seuil head Herve de la Martiniere saying: 'It is unacceptable that someone would arrogantly take you...
Google Book Search a 'disaster' for scholars
Geoffrey Nunberg argues that Google's massive scanning project may have created a vast virtual library, but it's a horrendously badly indexed one.
New Features on Google Book Search
Google is rolling out a set of new features for its Book Search that will make searching and previewing books even easier. Google spokesperson Jennie Johnson says that starting yesterday use...
Librarians fighting Google's book deal
Critics of Google's book-searching agreement with publishers and authors were cheered last week when antitrust regulators in the Justice Department set their sights on the search giant's publishing de...
US Justice Department begins questioning Google Books deal
The US Justice Department has sent formal demands to Google Inc and publishers, for information about the Google Settlement, in a move that it has been suggested could further stall the deal. The Wall...
Quotes of the week
‘Subscriptions and consumer online purchasing and advertising, there's per-page printing at public access terminals in libraries ... there's a whole lot of new ways for authors to be paid if the...
NY Law School launches Google Books site
The New York Law School is launching a Web site dedicated to the Google Book Search settlement that will include discussion forums, a comprehensive archive of settlement documents and related commenta...
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