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Google Strikes Back, Claims Viacom Secretly Uploaded YouTube Videos
In its motion for summary judgment unsealed yesterday, Google strongly asserted its "safe harbor" status in defense of a $1 billion lawsuit filed by Viacom over videos on its Google's YouTube platform, and dropped a bomb of its own: Viacom employees were actually paid to secretly upload content to the site, even as the company sued.
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Alex Reader Starts Taking Pre-Orders
Spring Design, the firm that produces the dual-screen Alex Reader, will begin taking pre-orders for the device at its Web site, tough delivery has been delayed until mid-April.
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Hachette Corporate Launches Social
Media SitesThe Hachette Book Group has
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Barnes & Noble to Test Bundling e-Books, p-Books
Barnes & Noble will begin testing the sale of bundled print books and e-books in the next 60 to 90 days, Barnes & Noble.com president William Lynch said at yesterday's AAP annual meeting.
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ECPA Teams with NetGalley to Offer Christian Publisher e-Galleys
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association is partnering with NetGalley to provide digital galleys and press kits for ECPA's members to the media.
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Rendezvous with Readeo
With a new subscription site called Readeo.com, which launches this week, children and adults in different cities can see live video of each other sharing digital picture books. All that's missing: snuggling while reading the stories. So far four publishers—Candlewick Press, Simon & Schuster, Chronicle Books, and Blue Apple Books—are licensing titles to Chicago-based Readeo. In return, they receive an undisclosed percentage of Readeo's revenues—and expose their books to a new audience.
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Scribd's Going Mobile, Moves to Open Content
Scribd has unveiled its "send-to-device" feature that allows consumers to send the more than 10 million documents on the site directly to their e-reader and smart phones.
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Tools of Change: Cool Market Solutions and Mind-Blowing Paradigms
Even a cold poring rain couldn’t hold down attendance at O’Reilly Media’s fourth annual Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, held once again in Manhattan.
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O'Reilly Digital Distribution Debuts at TOC
Looking to turn its e-publishing expertise into a new business, O'Reilly Media is launching O'Reilly Digital Distribution, a new division offering publishers a complete e-book publishing service.
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E-Book Sales Jump 176% in Flat Trade Year
E-book sales from the 13 publishers that report figures to the Association of American Publishers soared 176.6% in 2009, to $169.5 million, the AAP reported Friday.
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Google Settlement Gets Day In Court
Before he began his remarks, Authors Guild attorney Michael Boni, being from Philadelphia, said he felt a little like local hero Rocky "being beaten about the head and face for 15 rounds."
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S&S Debuts Digital Author Widget
S&S has developed an author widget that will display information on all the books of an S&S author, and is using its recently launched business Web site, simonandschuster.biz, to distribute the software.
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B&T, Author Solutions Ink TextStream POD Deal
Print and digital wholesaler Baker & Taylor has reached an agreement with self-publishing house Author Solutions to provide print services for its authors through TextStream, B&T’s print-on-demand and short-run printing service.
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Justice Department Says It Still Has Problems with Revised Google Settlement
The Department of Justice said Thursday evening that despite progress made in limiting the scope of the original Google Book Search settlement the revised deal still raises class certification, copyright and antitrust issues. No changes, however, are expected to be made before the final fairness hearing set for February 18.
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Canadian Writers Air Google Book Search Gripes
A group of about 175 Canadian writers registered their objections to the Google Book Search settlement last week just before the Jan. 28 deadline for submissions to a New York court.
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Digital Book World: Debating E-Rights Issues
In a dynamic panel at Digital Book World about rights in the electronic age, a number of hot-button, complex issues were broached on Tuesday afternoon.
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Apple Debuts $499 iPad; Launches iBooks Store
Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, its much-anticipated multimedia mobile computing device, to the world and there’s much to talk about.
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Vook Launches Direct Publishing Platform
Vook, the multimedia company that melds print and video, has unveiled a new platform called MortherVook that will allow publishers to independently create their multimedia versions of their books.
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Steinbeck, Guthrie Endorse Google Settlement
Gail Steinbeck, whose initial opposition led to the first delay of the Google settlement’s fairness hearing, expressed support for the revised agreement. In a letter shared with PW, Steinbeck informed her attorneys and collaborators that she and Arlo Guthrie, on his own behalf and on behalf of his father, Woody Guthrie, had now chosen “to opt-in” to the Google Book Search settlement.
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At NWU Event, Confusion, Strong Opposition to Google Settlement
Sparks flew as Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken defended the Google Book Search sSttlement before a hostile crowd at the National Writers Union headquarters.
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