TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Kenneth Crew of the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office has a first-hand report of the status conference which he attended today. You can read the full report here. No great news, except that the Judge set November 9 as the date for the parties to submit the revised settlement agreement. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On Monday (November 9th), a revised proposed settlement (aka Settlement 2.0) from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publisher will be released. The Open Book Alliance (OBA) has posted on its web site what they call “baseline requirements” for the Settlement 2.0. The Special Libraries Association and The New York Library Association [...]
The Technology Chronicles (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Monday is the deadline for Google Inc. and other parties in the landmark books lawsuit to submit a revised settlement proposal, but some already say it won't be enough to satisfy critics. "If...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Like many others, the Open Book Alliance awaits the release on November 9 of a revised proposed settlement from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. If repeated signals from Google and its partners over the last month are to be taken at face value, we don't expect significant changes to the earlier settlement proposal...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
This is really great to see and something we’ve been wanting for a long time. Remember, Google Book Search also includes some digitized magazines. Many people, including the ResourceShelf team have wanted to know the titles of the magazines/serials in the GBS database. In other words, we wanted a titles list or just a way [...]
FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Kenneth Crews, director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, has a useful scorecard of bullet points we should be reading closely in the revised Google Books settlement. Settlement 2.0 is scheduled for submission shortly to U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin. See Crews' blog post "Getting Ready for November 9," http://copyright.columbia.edu/google-books-getting-ready-november-9...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The latest twist in the ongoing settlement talks between Google and book authors is that yesterday, the judge in the case denied an attempt by photographers to become part of the settlement. In the decision (embedded below), Judge Denny Chin basically ruled that photographers are not authors, and that the settlement only covers "word-based material," with the exception of illustrations in...
Pub Rants (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
STATUS: Time for sleep. What’s playing on the iPod right now? SELF-ESTEEM by The Offspring I want to talk about the Google Partners Program as this is not even remotely related to the Google Settlement issue but a lot of people are just plain clueless about it. So let’s start with defining it. The Google Partners Program is an agreement that Google makes with Publishers to allow book content...
The Laboratorium (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Two online magazines have posted symposia on the Google Book Search settlement. There’s original writing from some of the top scholars working in the area. Unfortunately, both of these magazines feature gated access! Big frowny face. First, the Economists’ Voice...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Michael was the former Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group and is now the designated Executive Director of Books Rights Registry, part of the Google book settlement. The interview is at the Publishing Point site, along with an earlier interview with Cory Doctorow. If you are in the New York area, Publishing Point [...]
FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
We're waiting for the Supreme Court ruling in "Freelance" ( Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick ) and for the revised Google Books settlement in federal district court. In the meantime, blogger Eric Rumsey has posted a must-read piece, "Google Books Integrated into Google Search Results," http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardinmd/2009/10/30/google-books-integrated-into-google-search-results/ . I...
Jay G's Gadgets (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
For anyone thinking that reading a book on a small screen is a bad idea and the power of paper should never be overlooked then be prepared to rethink. Whilst the Kindle, Sony Reader, Cool-er and even Alex are pretty certain of the future; Apple’s iPhone has stepped in with its own proof. The obvious advantage with [...] Related posts: Google Book Search Puts iPhone and Android Phones to Novel...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Brantley is attending meetings in Spain and discussing the OBA and Google Book Search. He’s been interviewed by two newsapers, El Pais and Publico.es. Here are links to both interviews in Spanish along with mechanically generated translations from two services. 1) “Google no ve libros, se limita a ver datos” (via El Pais) + Translation by Google: [...]
Seo India Consultant - SEO Indore. (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Book.google.com If you searching for something on internet don’t forget to check the information available on Google books. One of the most amazing resources on the web is books.google.com. Google Book Search is a service that lets you search more than 500 million pages of scanned books and the number grows every day. Google books can [...] No related posts.
Click World News (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
China, of course, is famous for massive censorship of the internet. Google, on the other hand, is well known for fighting censorship in many cases. Even in China, where it was required to block some searches, Google tried to take as permissive an approach as possible, even letting users know when a site was being blocked (yes, this was quite controversial, but the company did more than many other search...
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