Cambridge & Oxford University presses sue Delhi University for copyright infringement — over course packs
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis are suing a photocopying store at Delhi University for copyright infringement. The store, who they accuse of creating photocopied “course… Read more »
The Army publishes its first ebook
The United States Army has published their first-ever interactive iPad book, Vanguard of Valor. Although developed and intended for career army personnel, the book is free for anyone to download on… Read more »
News Corp’s new publishing arm to start life with a big pot of money
Despite the split between News Corps.’s more valuable entertainment division, now called Fox Group Inc., and the print arm, the old media interests will nevertheless start their new life with some… Read more »
Sherlock Holmes estate charged with “copyfraud”
One lawyer’s passion for Sherlock Holmes has staked him against Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s rather litigious estate, and placed him squarely in the ongoing debate over literary estate overreach and… Read more »
British authors back libel reform
There always exists a tense relationship between the press and politicians, but post the United Kingdom’s hacking scandal and subsequent Levenson inquiry, relations between the two are surely at their… Read more »
Authors vs. their own book subtitles
The hyperbolic book subtitle is a well worn publishing tactic, most prevalent in the sports memoir section. A quick Amazon perusal yields an overwhelming crescendo of emotion, from Lance Armstrong’s War:… Read more »
Australian editors fight it out in public
War has broken out between two prominent Australian editors. An email published in the Australian by John van Tiggelen, editor of the Monthly, accuses Ben Naparstek, former Monthly editor and current editor of the Sydney… Read more »
The first Iranian books to be translated into Hebrew are a resounding success
Despite rising tensions between the governments of Iran and Israel, it seems the Israeli people are eager to understand their neighbors through literature. Samuel Thorpe in the Christian Science Monitor writes… Read more »
Anti-piracy three strike system begins this week
On Monday, five of the United States’ largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) initiated the new Copyright Alert System, so now would be the time to start downloading Girls on your neighbor’s… Read more »
Obama backs open access to all federal research
The United States will soon follow in the UK’s footsteps and allow open access to federally-funded research. A welcome development for open-access advocates, John P. Holdren, director of the White House… Read more »