Category: e-publishing

Global campaign encourages e-book take-up

ebooks Readers will be invited to download free or reduced price e-books during 'Read an E-Book Week' between 7 and 13 March.

Penguin to turn e-books into audio/visual experience

iPads Penguin plans to kick start e-book sales with enhanced digital editions of bestsellers. Plans for interactive e-books go beyond embedded video and audio.

O'Reilly lauches digital distribution service

Devices O'Reilly Media has launched a new e-book service, which it claims will aggregate content and push it out to the dynamic marketplace of e-books and other digital channels.

German court slaps ban on file sharing website

Rapidshare A German court has given six international publishing companies a significant victory in their attempt to combat digital piracy.

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UK action group to lobby book trade against Google settlement

Scales An action group has been set up to campaign for the rights of authors in the face of the proposed 'Google Book Settlement'.

Action on Authors' Rights describes itself as a grassroots group set up to campaign in support of authors' rights.

Google faces critics of digital books project in court

The book trade is waiting to hear the outcome of a New York court case, which will see Google face critics of its agreement with US publishers to produce digital copies of published books.

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INTERVIEW: Anthony Goff talks agents, authors and the e-publishing age

Anthony Goff Some of the biggest worries facing literary agents relate to economic slowdown and the advance of digital publishing - e-books in particular.

This is according to the recently elected president of the Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA), Anthony Goff. The association exists to provide a forum for literary agents to discuss industry matters and represent agent interests as well as upholding best practice.