The Big Picture - The Digital Divide Hasn't Gone Away

"BLACK AND WHITE AND DEAD ALL OVER" (New York Post)
Former Timesman John Darnton's spritely mystery "Black and White and Dead All Over" is not about the death of a newspaper, even in these trying times ... Copyright: so complex, here's a slide rule to decode it (Ars Technica)
Copyright sounds simple enough in theory; in practice, it can be complicated enough to make librarians weak. The American Library Association offers ... Money for Bookies (Voice of the Common Man)
The book publishing industry in the province has received a $200 thousand investment from the provincial government....... Hitting the books (Vancouver Sun)
The book publishing industry recorded total revenues of just over $2.1 billion in 2006, down 1.2 per cent from 2005. Revenues in B.C. plummeted (down ... Digital Copyrighta Slider
Thanks to The Wired Campus, I stumbled across this nifty digital copyright tool developed by the American Library Association’s Copyright Adviso... AP Exclusive: Mitch Albom publishing commencement speech through Amazon.com's Kindle (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Mitch Albom has a new book out — well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but a... Mitch Albom publishing commencement speech through Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Mitch Albom has a new book out — well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but a... Tricia Crossey Joins Gulf Publishing Company's Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tricia Crossey has been named as a new Process Editor of Hydrocarbon Processing, a monthly magazine serving the refining, petrochemical and gas proce... New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation
The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and in cooperation with partners in... Seesmic Adds Creative Commons Licensea Support
Super cool video conversation site Seesmic just rolled out its most requested feature today, Creative Commons licensing of course! Seesmic added all 6... Coming this Fall: Free Textbooks (Time.com via Yahoo! News)
A pilot project aims to upend the publishing industry, and help strapped students, by offering textbooks free of charge online...... Canadian Book Revenue Down (Arts Journal)
"Operating revenue for the book publishing industry in Canada edged down 1.2%, to C$2.1 billion, in 2006 after increasing 3.2% in 2005 as the average ... Market for mobile 'manga' taking off (The Japan Times)
A wave of digital and mobile phone technology is sweeping through the Japanese publishing industry as the market for electronic publishing continues t... Book publishing revenue down slightly in 2006: StatsCan (Canadian Business)
OTTAWA - The latest numbers from Statistics Canada show operating revenues for the country's book publishing industry dropped 1.2 per cent to $2.1 bil... Book publishing revenue rose only slightly in 2006: StatsCan (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
OTTAWA - The latest numbers from Statistics Canada show operating revenues for the country's book publishing industry edged up 1.2 per cent to $2.1 bi... Book publishing revenue steady in 2006: StatsCan (The Globe and Mail)
OTTAWA — Operating revenues for Canada's book publishing industry edged up 1.2 per cent to $2.1-billion in 2006, Statistics Canada said. That compar... Nigeria: Longman Promotes New Curriculum (AllAfrica.com)
The Managing Director, Longman Nigeria Plc, the nation's foremost publishing company, Mr. Daniel Obidiegwu has called on government and education stak... Publishing industry in turmoil over increased fees, prices (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - Publishing houses are considering raising the sale prices of publications or reducing the numbers of copies issued to deal with ri... TechSummit Video Nowa Online
Creative Commons held our first TechSummit at Google last month.a  This event included an update and overview of Creative Commons technologies, panels... Book-business bible is a Phila. story (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Back in the 18th century, America's book business called Philadelphia home. Mathew Carey invented the American publishing house. Benjamin Franklin tow...