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Frankfurt: record crowds, but some exhibitors note a slow-down
The 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair has concluded, with organisers celebrating the fair's 60th anniversary with record attendance numbers. However, on the floor, standholders' feelings were mixed, with a num...
Talking to the search engines in language they understand
After almost 18 months of work, Automated Content Access Protocol--the code that book and newspaper publishers hope will provide them with a universal way of communicating permissions information to i...
Welsh writers divided over digitisation plan
Welsh writers are divided on the merits of a million-pound project by the National Library of Wales to digitise their works. At issue, as ever, are rights and royalties.
Dymocks responds to ASA concerns on digital rights
Dymocks' CEO Don Grover [pictured] has issued a response to the Australian Society of Authors' recent press release that expressed ‘serious concerns' over digital rights issues for authors. ...
Frankfurt organisers 'couldn't be happier'
As this year's Frankfurt Book Fair wrapped up last Sunday, Australian attendees and the fair's organisers expressed strong satisfaction with how it has gone. 'I walked around Hall 8 [th...
21st International Rights Directors Meeting, Frankfurt: managing digital rights
'From Fear Factor to Revenue Stream - Managing Digital Rights' The issues surrounding digitisation and the future of the book industry create concerns and new ideas for the publishing professiona...
Google settles Book Search lawsuits
Google has provisionally agreed to pay US$125m to settle a long-running legal dispute between it and US publishers over its Book Search scanning program. Part of the settlement willl go tow...
Aust/NZ/Canada summit at Frankfurt
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has joined forces with the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) and the Association for the Export of Canadian Books to co-host a half-day sum...
Macmillan pays record sum for Chinese bestseller
Macmillan has paid £100,000--twice the amount ever before paid for world English rights in a Chinese book--for Professor Yu Dan Explains the Analects, a Chinese bestseller 'which reinterpre...
Americans feel currency pressure
American publishers are feeling the effects of the weak US dollar, with many reconsidering foreign rights deals and some only making deals in Pounds or Euros, not US Dollars.
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