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Barnes & Noble will not carry DC graphic novels for four months after DC gave Amazon exclusive digital rights to sell them on Kindle devices.

Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.

I thought comics/graphic novels were one corner of the print industry that was holding steady. Maybe not?

Just when people were starting to figure out Web 2.0, here comes Web 3.0!

A proposal by the Prince George's County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual. The measure has some worried that by the system claiming ownership to the work of others, creativity could be stifled and there would be little incentive to come up with innovative ways to educate students. Some have questioned the legality of the proposal as it relates to students.

Interesting how a decision to make a logo the same on both their Web site and newspaper could cause people to start talking.

Free access and non-profit publishers. See "The Value of OA"--talk by the late Peter Banks.