As Canadians head to the polls on May 2, Q&Q looks at key federal policies affecting the publishing industry. Stay tuned for upcoming features on federal funding and mass digitization. When it comes to foreign ... Read More »
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As Canadians head to the polls on May 2, Q&Q looks at key federal policies affecting the publishing industry. Stay tuned for upcoming features on federal funding, mass digitization, and foreign-ownership regulations. After nearly a ... Read More »
April 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Libraries, Opinion
Carefully curated indie e-book publisher Ebookling sells 1,000 downloads in two weeks An infographic look at the 40-year history of e-book publishing, starting with the 1971 digitization of the U.S. Declaration of Independence This virtual ... Read More »
March 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
An independent panel of arts and communications experts has advised the European Commission to limit the amount of time a private company such as Google can exercise preferential use of digitized materials from the public ... Read More »
The news that e-books have topped hardcover sales at Amazon is rocking the publishing world... ... But MobyLives questions some of the figures Andrew Nikiforuk becomes The Tyee's first writer-in-residence (via Canadian Magazines) Frank Kafka ... Read More »
July 20, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Traditional books are so entrenched in our culture that the advent of e-readers and digital books does not represent a "doomsday scenario" for publishers, according to Doubleday Canada's Lynn Henry, who is quoted in a ... Read More »
April 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
After a long copyright debate, Google has offered an apology to Chinese authors, admitting that they treated them unfairly. The country's authors were in an uproar when they discovered that Google had digitized their works ... Read More »
January 12, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Despite Google's "colonization of e-books," the advent of the Kindle Reader, and today's publication of The Lost Symbol, Harvard University's library director, Robert Darnton, argues in Publisher's Weekly that the book is not dead, nor shall ... Read More »
September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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