Briefly Noted | Apple, publishers offer antitrust concessions – source | Reuters
Reuters – Apple and four major publishers have offered to allow retailers such as Amazon to sell e-books at a discount for two years in a bid to end an EU antitrust investigation and stave off possible fines, a person…
Waterstones Signs Deal With Amazon To Sell Kindle Devices In Store
In a move that will surprise many, Waterstones has announced a partnership with Amazon to sell that company’s Kindle devices and Kindle ebooks in Waterstones’ bookstores. The company said that they would ‘to launch new e-reading services and offer Kindle…
Brielfy Noted | Epexegetic Biographic Addenda « LRB blog
The tug of war over Joyce copyright continues. The National Library of Ireland has just released digital copies of a collection of papers bought from Alexis Léon in 2002 for €12.6 million, in response to an attempted copyright coup by…
Enter The Mammoth: Guest Column
Karl Whitney, co-founder of newly formed The Mammoth, writes about the site and the logic behind it. Instead of the internet reducing your attention span, we think it provides an opportunity to publish lengthier, more in-depth work – in short,…