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A commentary by the OBA placed online today looks at what has changed, what has not changed, and asks, “where are we today” in terms of the Google Book Settlement. One Example From the What Has Changed Portion of the Article As Publishers Weekly noted, “Google eBooks overnight becomes the largest e-book provider in the […]
"Special 301 Report: Publishers Submit Annual Review of Global Intellectual Property Protection to USTR"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing
|From an Association of American Publisher’s Announcement: “The Association of American Publishers (AAP), through the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), today submitted its annual Special 301 Report to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). The report details issues related to intellectual property rights protection and market access in a number of foreign […]
As many of you have probably heard by now Borders Books filed for bankruptcy (Chapter 11) today. In addition to a couple of overview articles at the bottom of this post, here are links to a new web site and several documents: Borders Reorganization Web Site Some of the Material Online as of Today + […]
The Tools of Change for Publishing Conference is taking place this week in NYC and on Tuesday, Ingram’s CEO, Skip Prichard, spoke at the event. What is the conference all about? Driven by the Internet, technology is fundamentally transforming publishing. Creation, development, production, distribution, and consumption have all been touched by the changes and challenges […]
"Scholars Favor Open-Access Journals, but Some Say Quality and Fees Are Concerns"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new survey of nearly 40,000 scholars across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences shows that almost 90 percent of them believe open-access journals are good for the research community and the individual researcher. But charges for publishing and the perception that open-access journals are of lower quality […]