Just returning from New York Public Library panel on Google Book Settlement with all the principal negotiators. Clearly GBS holds tremendous promise, especially in its usefulness for research institutions and rights holders of out of print works. But some crazy provisions were discussed. For example, all libraries get 1 free terminal — so Podunk,...
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Sourcebooks Tests Innovative Rights — Again
Sourcebooks Experimenting with DRM-Free e-Books By Claire Kirch Sourcebooks has begun collaborating with Smashwords–a one-year-old company that produces and sells DRM-free versions of e-books–to make 14 mass market romance novels released under the company’s Casablanca imprint available for sale though Smashwords. The e-books will be priced at $6.99 and will be available in nine...
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