The rise of the agent model in Chinese publishing
Dustin Kurtz
With China’s domestic book market booming, and spurred by the rabid demand for the work of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the nation’s publishing industry has set its sights on a… Read more »
With China’s domestic book market booming, and spurred by the rabid demand for the work of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the nation’s publishing industry has set its sights on a… Read more »
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 »
“Works created by employees and/or students … are properties of the Board of Education”… Read more »
A statement on Teri Buhl’s Twitter profile claims that “No Tweets are Publishable.” Buhl, an investigative journalist covering finance and Wall Street, is now threatening to sue a lawyer for… Read more »
A resolution in the ongoing debate over whether Google should pay for their news results has occurred with the online behemoth setting up a multimillion euro fund for French publishers.… Read more »
Do you remember the jubilation last year, here on MobyLives and in the wider community of scholars and book lovers, when the James Joyce estate passed into the public domain?… Read more »
Imagine a paradise where you can download any book, song or movie up to the value of $21 million. Maybe you’d like to start your own search engine, borrowing the Google… Read more »
A decision by the Iowa Supreme Court has extended free speech protections to those that produce content online, including internet publishers. According to the Associated Press, the case was brought to… Read more »
It is a depressing example of the inflexible digital culture forming around publishing… Read more »
The perversity of copyright overreach was on display last week when footage of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech was removed from the digital video site Vimeo.… Read more »