In the news this week
To help you keep in touch with what’s been happening in the creative sector over the past week, here are some links to online news and commentary we've come across that we thought might be of interest.
Copyright updates
From Copyright Agency’s blog
Copyright Agency explains what all the fuss is about
A summary of the Google v Righthaven case
Authors and publishers
Australia’s most popular e-book authors
The effects of Apple’s iBooks 2 on education budgets
The pros and cons of iBook author tools
A look at existing journal publishing models in an open access world
Joshua Benton looks at how news content may be impacted by iBooks 2 and iAuthors
Kent Anderson from The Scholarly Kitchen provides an interesting analysis on the energy consumed by ‘p’ and ‘e’ publishing
Revenue from digital publishing in the US
Barbara Hernandez on making the leap from self-published author to publishing contract
Giselle Tsirulnik on Apple’s top newsstand apps
An interesting insight into Amazon and publishing
Frédéric Filloux from The Guardian on containing digital piracy
iBooks 2L What it means for publishers
Was Dickens ahead of his time?
A price comparison of Peter Corris’ new release
Almost 30% of Americans now own an e-reader
3 things to think about for digital publishing in 2012
Some good advice for academic websites
Is EPub under threat?
The Apple v Amazon discussion continues in the education market
A word of caution on the end user license agreement for iBooks2
Pam Horan from the Online Publishers Association talks about HTML5
Some good news about Australian book retail
Amazon markets out-of-print books
How libraries aren’t responding to e-book demand
NBC News turns e-publisher
A pictogram of e-book retailer price wars
Current thinking on e-books in the US book industry
Some readers are buying both print and digital versions of books
What Google might get up to in 2012
Apple’s new textbook initiative is quickly gaining momentum
Item posted on 31 January 2012.