More parties join Google copyright lawsuit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - English soccer's Premier League Ltd and music publisher Bourne & Co said on Monday that eight more parties have joined their lawsuit charging Google Inc and its YouTube online service with deliberately encouraging copyright infringement. ...

What does it take for a small publisher to survive in an industry dominated by big-name publishers and titles? J.T. Lindroos and Kathleen Martin have some ideas. The New Albany couple runs a small-book publishing company from their home....

Amazon leads investment in music site AmieStreet

NEW YORK (Reuters) -AmieStreet, a digital music site that prices songs of new artists according to their popularity, said on Monday that Amazon.com Inc. is leading a first round of investment in the start-up. ...

The Highs and the Lows of Rankings on Amazon

Some authors compulsively check their sales rank on Amazon.com while others try to game the system, which offers a quick way to keep tabs on book sales....

Some authors compulsively check their sales rank on Amazon.com while others try to game the system, which offers a quick way to keep tabs on book sales....

Want to supplement your child's classroom reading with books from home? The American Library Association compiles a list of age-appropriate "good reads" for your children. Most can be found at your public library. For a complete list, go to www.ala.org/ala/librariesandyou/ ...

FAIRBURY - Dominy Memorial Library announces a new director/head librarian. They also received a "We the People" bookshelf grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in collaboration with the American Library Association....

WASHINGTON - For the first time in 131 years, the leading librarian in the land is an American Indian - ''although there are a lot of great Native librarians,'' Loriene Roy was quick to add....

EDITORS....Andrew Sullivan vents:The publishing industry is one of the shallowest, dumbest and most archaic in the U.S. No one edits anything. The publishers do not care what is in their books and neither, by and large, do editors.Is this really......

Help! While munching on a cookie, I lost my blook and misplaced my folksonomy somewhere in the blogosphere. Huh? Welcome to the brave but not necessarily transparent world of Internet-inspired language. Annoying, isn't it? A major Internet site, LuLu.com, where authors can self-publish their works and bypass agents, editors and the rest of the usual publishing industry hierarchy, commissioned a ......