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.
Authors and publishers
The challenge is for the users and creators to find common ground on how to combat the piracy problem
Five steps to formatting an ebook
As part of its review into the suitability of IP laws for the market, the UK government is considering giving companies and individuals access to a digital marketplace where users can search for and purchase licences to use copyright
Lend an ebook to someone and borrow one in return
Association of American Publishers (AAP) has chased down the owners of two websites that had been distributing copyrighted ebooks
Why books won’t die
A look at e-books sales figures in the US and the UK
Out of print works in the digital age
E-Textbooks in the US marketplace – student buying patterns and learning management systems
US New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly released the NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Education Edition
Booktype is a platform for producing books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and other ereaders
Self-publishing author Joe Konrath predicts the demise of traditional publishers, with a few responses
Spokenherd launches its first crowdsourced audiobook
Should Murdoch sell off his newspapers?
Design tips for ebooks
The print publishing production timeline broken down by month
Advice from a US author on pitching to literary agents
Some interesting metrics on scholarly digital publishing
An ode to ebooks
Good overview of the power of library patrons in the US
Innovative bookselling models discussed
Readers can choose 11 different endings for this ebook
The woes of getting a book published and tie-in film made
Is the term ‘ebook’ deliberately use to make the new look comfortably old and familiar?
Is Amazon anti-competitive?
The art of book trailers
Publishing illustrated nonfiction for the iPad
Visual artists
There have been a number of changes in gallery directors worldwide
Richard Frolich has recently been appointed to the board of Biennale of Sydney
Roger McIlroy is the new head auctioneer for Deutscher and Hackett
Auction sales worldwide topped $US11.5 billion in 2011
The mining boom has resulted in investment in public art in Perth
Christine Morrow is set to start at AEAF before Adelaide Festival
Andrew Pridham is suing art advisor for allegedly selling him at artwork that was not by Brett Whiteley
Item posted on 22 February 2012.