AMZN responds to #amazonfail

Courtesy of Amazon.com Amazon's Kindle was a hot topic at this year's Book Expo America in New York, praised by Tina Brown, panned by Sherman Alexie. ... Not Satisfied with Copying Policy, Canadian Think-Tank Copies Verbatim
This kind of thing is too good not to snark about, so excuse me for a moment. According to Matt Hartley's story in Toronto's Globe And Mail online si... PlagarismToday on Why You Shouldn't Write Your Owna�License
Jonathan Bailey at PlagiarismToday has a great post dissecting the various issues raised by the bizarre “WE ARE COPYRIGHTED BLOGS” license... EFF Launches "Teach Copyright" (free)
And by "free" we mean both "Creative Commons licensed for free use" and "free of Cartel propaganda." Nice combo. Here are some excerpts from the pres...
BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2009 -- StudioNow (www.studionow.com), the premier online platform for video creation, today unveiled at the annual BookExpo America ...
Those attending the American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference in Chicago this July will have a new service to help them navigate their wa...
The U.S. publishing industry passed a key marker last year, with the publication of more "on-demand" or short-run titles than traditional books, a U.S...
SAN FRANCISCO----When the world's oldest and largest library association meets the nation's biggest convention center, there is a lot of ground to cov...
Is e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. getting into the brick-and-mortar retail business? (AMZN)......
NEW YORK -- This weekend's BookExpo America will be a good time for promoting, predicting, mingling -- and worrying. Except for e-books, sales are dow...
A new book by essayist Lawrence Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, has won the 2009 gold medal in the essay/creative category...
Gail A. Kennedy, director of the Lucille Little Fine Arts Library at the University of Kentucky, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of th...
CHICAGO - ALA Editions , the publishing imprint of the American Library Association just released "The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, Secon...
CHICAGO - ALA Editions , the publishing imprint of the American Library Association just released "Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Li...
(CHICAGO) Baseball is a melting pot, with a history spanning more than 150 years and players from places as varied as the Netherlands, Afghanistan and...
Multichannel retailer Borders Group Inc. has named Paul Devitt director of e-commerce systems and Scott Laverty chief information officer.......
The Museum of Science and Industrya�has a special treat for librarians attending the American Library Association's annual conference in Chicago this ...
Is e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. getting into the brick-and-mortar retail business? (AMZN)......
NEW YORK - This weekend's BookExpo America will be a good time for promoting, predicting, mingling — and worrying. For example, the audio market. Ex... Michigan Libraries Support Google Book Search Settlement Plans
Librarians seem caught in ambivalence these days about Google Book Search (http://books.google.com), the beyond-mammoth book digitization project curr...