After finally reaching a formal agreement with authors and publishers, a host of other heavyweights including Microsoft and Yahoo came forward to challenge the settlement of Google books. Google co-founder Sergey Brin addressed criticisms of the settlement in a lengthy editorial.
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", however, there is always a copyright concern around Google Book Search project.
Two e-book readers due in late August aim to close Sony's sales gap with Amazon, whose Kindle continues to sizzle. Again, interesting in light of Thompson article.
Marieke Hardy, who some may know from The First Tuesday Book Club on the ABC and also as a Melbourne Triple J presenter is going to launch a "mbook". Mbooks are where a story is sent by SMS over a number of days. This style of writing has become very popular in Japan.
the price of ebook is the point for ebook publishers to think about. Faceing the challenge of the free content shared internet, they have to think about the way to compete with free internt distrubution.
Early this morning a coalition of authors, publishers and privacy advocates filed an objection to the Google search settlement case and surprisingly it had little to do with ...