Last week’s news about Google closing in on its goal of a global virtual library by partnering with the likes of Oxford University and the New York Public Library is a good place to start with a roundup of our reporting throughout 2004 — a year that felt much like the early 1990s, before people’s…Continue Reading
Visitors to the Beijing International Bookfair earlier this month were pondering two striking facts: the Chinese market for English language books is at last shaking off the torpor of the state-run supply chain; yet the Americans hardly showed up. In contrast, the Brit pack presence looked positively bullish — both at the UK Publishers Association…Continue Reading
“Is copyright a cow in the swamps?” Such was the boffo opening gambit from a Ugandan publisher as the 5th International Publishers Association Copyright Conference kicked off in Accra, Ghana, on February 20. A Ugandan tale, it turns out, tells of two families who hope to enter the dairy industry but squabble over the business…Continue Reading
