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Protecting Civil Rights in the Internet Age

"More than 500 of the world’s leading authors—including Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Jeanette Winterson—have called on the United Nations to create an international bill of digital rights to enshrine the protection of civil rights in the internet age," says The Bookseller.

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The Ebook Takedown Spreads

And now New Zealand and Australia have joined in the hunt for inapproprite material and/ or takedown. The Digital Reader reports.

No Delay, Says Judge in Google Case

Eight years into the litigation, the judge is interested in things moving along. Publishers Weekly has the news. In short, the next round of action will begin on September 23.

In Praise of Used Book Stores

The New York Review of Books talks about what it will mean to lose used bookstores.

Selling Used Ebooks

Is it possible to resell ebooks? Recent court rulings say no, but the battle rages on. Publishers Weekly explains the concept and the problems.

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Strategies: The Cult of Self-Publishing

Once upon a time, self-publishers were not considered professional. Then things changed, and the publishing landscape was riven by fractions and war. Has self-publishing become a cult? Salon takes a look.

DoJ Suit: Complicated, Costly, and Anti-Apple?

With millions of pages of documents generated, it is not obvious where the DoJ lawsuit against Apple is going, but Publishers Weekly takes a look.

No Action on Orphan Works?

It looks as if orphan works are about to slither back into the limbo they came from. Publishers Weekly explains why action on the problem has become far less likely than it once seemed to be, say, last fall.

Ebook-Only Contracts: A Bad Deal for the Author?

Writer Beware takes a look at what writers are being offered in ebook-only deals from major publishers—and what they must give up.

For, and Against, the Portable Ebook

Not whether you can carry your reader around, but whether you can send books from device to device. FutureBook thinks about it.