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.
Publishers and authors
Seth Godin from The Domino Project discusses e-book pricing models for the Kindle
Phil Adams from The Scholarly Kitchen debates whether or not journals should sell reprints
More on e-book pricing models with Philip Jones
A discussion of Amazon’s publishing program
Occupy London protestors have established a library at the protest site outside St. Paul’s Cathedral
Amazon is set to launch a new e-book format along with its launch of its Kindle Fire tablet
Rick Anderson on the lawsuit filed against by authors against Hathitrust
Since its launch in April 2010, 180 million iBooks have been downloaded
Jane Tappuni interviews the head of Publishing Technology’s operations in China on ‘web fiction’
Japan should be preparing for Amazon’s launch of a Japanese Kindle service by the end of 2011
Timo Boezeman argues the pros and cons of publishers selling their own e-readers
Kent Anderson from The Scholarly Kitchen on the price elasticity of digital content
Jonathan Boymal from RMIT University on online browsing and in-store browsing for books
Jenn Webb interviews Hugh McGuire, co-author of Book: a Futurist’s Manifesto
The Office of Fair Trading has ruled that Amazon’s takeover over The Book Depository would not lead to less competition in the UK
The European Commission is recommending that EU member states digitise cultural material
Copyright infringement and the success of online business
Michael Popek explains how he thinks that e-books are encouraging more people to read
Kobo is set to create its own publishing arm
Daniel Kalder on how Litres.ru is cleaning up Russia’s e-book market
Tomio Geron from Forbes on startup digital publisher Hyperink
Kim Bhasin on our second-hand bookstores could benefit from the rise of e-books
Visual Artists
A group of artists are suing Christie’s and Sotheby’s for allegedly violating the California Resale Royalty Act
The value of art in prison
Andrew Taylor from The Sydney Morning Herald on copying as a recognised artistic method
The financial struggle of Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea
Item posted 31 October 2011.