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To help you keep in touch with what’s been happening in the creative sector over the past week, CAL has collated this list of news articles from around the world.

 

Dymocks launches new publishing arm
Dymocks is set to launch a new publishing arm, that will enable authors to self-publish

Faber Upgrades Digital Distribution Service in Deal with Constellation
Nicholas Clee talks us through Fabers changes to its Faber Factory digital service

Carey, Cave and co hit ABC arts cuts
A number of prominent Australians are petitioning the ABC against its cuts to arts coverage

The Rise Of Agent-Publishers Is Bad For The Book Business
Jason Ashlock on literary agents and digital publishing

Amazon is set to install pick-up lockers in UK shopping centres

 

Waterstone’s to launch e-reader
US bookseller Waterstone’s will launch a digital e-reader next year

 

The Bath Festival of Children’s Literature is to host a special event this year

 

Ed Nawotka on the impact of September 11, 2011 on the publishing industry

 

Frances Woolley discusses on-line learning centres

 

Online bookseller Amazon is making changes in preparation for the launch of its own kindle tablet

 

Internet and supermarkets kill of 2,000 bookshops
In the past six years, nearly 2,000 bookshops have closed down in the UK

Physial book sales slump 4% month-on-month
Philip Stone explains that in the UK, spending on printed books decreased by 4% in August

Scholastic, Ruckus Media Form New Digital/Print Imprint
Calvin Reid on a new imprint for children's and teen content

Rallying Cries vs. Reality: Profits and Publishing Meet Academics and Idealism
Kent Anderson writes a second reply to George Monbiot's article in The Guardian last week

The Dog-Eared Paperback, Newly Endangered in an E-Book Age
Julie Bosman from The New York Times discusses paperbacks

Publishers and the British Library agree framework licence agreement for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers
A press release from the British Library with details of the new framework
 

Arts Northern Rivers has announced a new online creative network

 

Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Dr Gerard Vaughan has announced his retirement
 

Canadian novelist John Degan discusses the copyright licence fee for educational institutions in Canada

 

Hamish Fletcher from The New Zealand Herald discusses the impact of New Zealand’s new anti-piracy rules