ABA, Booksellers NZ in US to meet with international bookselling associations
Representatives from the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and the booksellers association of New Zealand, Booksellers NZ, are currently attending a global meeting of English speaking bookselling associations in the United...
Online retailer first Oz bookseller to sign up with Google
Online bookstore Booktopia is the first Australian bookseller to enter into a partnership with Google to sell ebooks, reports The Canberra Times. According to the report, Australian consumers will be...
Online retailer first Oz bookseller to sign up with Google
Online bookstore Booktopia is the first Australian bookseller to enter into a partnership with Google to sell ebooks, reports The Canberra Times. According to the report, Australian consumers will be...
Google launches US ebookstore; Australian launch likely to be early 2011
Google has entered the ebook market this week, launching its long-awaited ebookstore in the US on Monday. Product manager for Google Books Abraham Murray said in a statement that launching...
Google launches US ebookstore; Australian launch likely to be early 2011
Google has entered the ebook market this week, launching its long-awaiting ebookstore in the US yesterday. Product manager for Google Books Abraham Murray said in a statement yesterday that launching...
Tanner moves to Google Books
Mark Tanner has been appointed to the newly created position of strategic partner development manager for Google Books in Australia and New Zealand. Tanner is currently the Australian manager of...
Google Editions: about ‘surfacing books’ not replacing bookstores, says Palma
The article below originally appeared in our Weekly Book Newsletter, back in February, but with the recent mainstream coverage of the fact Google is planning to sell ebooks, we thought it might...
Google Book Settlement: deadline today
The deadline for authors to opt out of the revised Google Settlement, to opt in if they previously opted out of the original settlement, or to file an objection to...
Google Settlement: judge sets new deadlines for opting in, fairness hearing
Text Publishing and MUP are new plaintiffs in the Google Settlement following changes to the proposed Settlement announced last week. Australian Society of Authors board member Rob Pullen also in...
Quote of the week
'Access matters a lot'--Bertelsmann Inc.'s Richard Sarnoff, one of the chief architects of the Google settlement, speaking at the 'European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement' panel at the...
Google Settlement deadline extended to September
The 5 May deadline for authors and publishers to remain in, object to, or opt out of the Google settlement has been delayed by four months to 4 September. New...
May deadline for rights holders to opt out of Google settlement
As part of a court-ordered process, Google Book Search is currently notifying authors, publishers and other rights holders worldwide, of their legal rights and options with regard to the proposed...
Quote of the week
'As such a dominant player in the online world, Google will now occupy a unique gateway position that, if abused, could easily create a de facto monopoly. A situation where...
Microsoft shuts down book search
Microsoft has announced it is ending its book search programs Live Search Books and Live Search Academic and that ‘both sites will be taken down next week.' While the company...
Bookseller+Publisher joins Google News
Bookseller+Publisher Online has recently been included by online search engine Google as a news source for its popular Google News service. Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates...
In brief
Workplace watchdog warns small businessThe newly appointed Workplace Ombudsman, Nicholas Wilson, has issued a warning to small businesses to meet all their legal obligations regarding employee entitlements, pointing to a...
Microsoft adds copyright titles to book search function; Google expands search offering
Microsoft has announced that it has added copyrighted material to its Live Search Books function, which had previously included only public domain and out-of-copyright material.While the search function has not...
Google revamp adds more book data
A major revamp of the Google search engine unveiled last week will increase the likelihood of book information collected by Google Book Search being returned in a general search.Google has...
Global Books in Print named as database for Microsoft book search project
Bowker's Global Books in Print (GBiP) bibliographic database has been selected by Microsoft as the preferred data source for the software giant's Live Search Books service.Live Search Books is Microsoft's...
Industry bodies, Google, concerned about copyright amendments
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have issued a joint statement expressing concern at the ‘peremptory treatment of issues of vital...