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Copyright
Judge Adopts Trial Schedule At Google Status Conference, but Settlement Talks Continue
The Google Books case is headed to litigation. At a status conference Thursday, Judge Denny Chin adopted a proposed trial schedule that, if followed, would have the case ready for trial by July 2012. But the conference also offered a ray of hope, as attorneys said that settlement talks were progressing
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Libraries
Library Groups Blast Authors Guild Lawsuit
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), a group of three major library associations, issued a statement yesterday expressing “deep disappointment” over the lawsuit filed this week by the Authors Guild against HathiTrust and its research library partners.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Sues Libraries Over Scan Plan
With the Google Settlement poised to meet its ultimate demise as early as Thursday, when the parties are scheduled to appear before Judge Denny Chin for a status conference, the Authors Guild yesterday filed a new lawsuit against a consortium of university libraries over a digitization initiative known as HathiTrust.
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Nancy PearlCheck It Out with Nancy Pearl: September 2011
We asked Nancy to imagine herself on a rope line, where she would have a minute or so to bend the ear of the president or one of his would-be challengers, before security released her vise-like handshake.
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Copyright
Second Circuit Copyright Ruling Could Affect Libraries
Librarians say their core activities are in question after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision finding that the “First Sale” doctrine in U.S. copyright law—the provision that enables libraries to lend books they’ve purchased—does not apply to works manufactured outside the U.S.
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Copyright
With Final Filings, Parties in GSU E-Reserve Case Await Verdict
The parties in the closely-watched e-reserves trial at Georgia State University have filed what are likely to their final documents, and a verdict by federal judge Orinda Evans could come any day.
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Copyright
The Breakup: Are the Google Settlement Parties Headed for Splitsville?
Breaking up is hard to do, and for the parties in the Google Books litigation a potentially messy breakup looms. Can these factions make enough progress on a revised settlement agreement in the next six weeks to avoid that fate?
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Copyright
Judge Concerned with Lack of Progress in Revised Google Settlement Talks
Lawyers for the parties in the Google Book Settlement asked U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin for more time to negotiate a revised deal but, in sharp contrast to the last meeting, Chin expressed "concern" about the lack of progress and wondered whether there was in fact a deal to be made.
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Copyright
Revised Google Settlement Can Wait—But Can Judge Chin?
What’s going on with a revised Google Settlement? Some talking, but probably not very much progress, say court-watchers, noting that the odds of seeing a revised settlement proposal in 2011 may be long.
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U.S. Book Show
Hot Fall Graphic Novels For Libraries at BEA 2011
The BEA panel, "Hot Fall Graphic Novels for Libraries," discussed titles that give educators options for all kinds of students, from toddlers to advanced college and even graduate students, yet these titles can also stand on their own literary and artistic merit.
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People
Check It Out! with Nancy Pearl: The Library Budget Crisis
We're delighted to offer a new monthly column, where librarians, publishers, and other stakeholders in the health of our reading culture can have their voices heard. We expect the conversation will open everyone's eyes to the array of services offered by libraries and the issues they face. Who better to host and direct that conversation than Nancy Pearl?
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Shows & Events
Brewster's Millions: ALA Preview 2011
At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, a standing-room-only panel focused on how e-books will affect the future of libraries. From research and pilot programs to digitizing efforts, libraries have long helped prepare the way for e-books. But now that the consumer market for e-books has taken off, are libraries in danger of being marginalized?
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Content / e-books
Game Changer? A Talk with Jane McGonigal
Last month, McGonigal published Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. Just before SXSW kicked off, PW caught up with McGonigal to talk about who gamers are (you might be surprised) and the implications of gaming's swift rise for publishing.
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Content / e-books
Open Library Launches New “Digitize and Lend” E-Book Lending Program
Open Library, a group of more than 150 libraries led by the Internet Archive, has announced plans to lend browser-based digital editions of e-books, beginning with a new, cooperative 80,000+ e-book lending collection of mostly 20th-century books.
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Interviews
The Googlization of Books
There have been a few popular books in recent years detailing Google's ascent in the digital world, notably Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World as We Know It and Jeff Jarvis's What Would Google Do. But there is another story, says author and media scholar Siva Vai-dhyanathan.
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Comics
Comics On the Library Reference Shelf
There are some venerable veterans in the battle to place comics on library shelves and one of the best known is Katharine “Kat” Kan, who has been writing about comics in schools for over fifteen years. She is also the editor of Graphic Novels and Comic Books, a new reference work on comics aimed at both librarians and the general reader that has just been released by H.W. Wilson.
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Comics
'Whaddaya Got?' Finding Graphic Novels in an Academic Library
Academic libraries are beginning to embrace graphic novels for their circulating collections. Unfortunately, because of inconsistencies in the Library of Congress classification model, locating graphic novels in an academic library collection can be challenging.
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Comics
Jeff Smith Responds to Bone School Library Challenge
Jeff Smith's epic fantasy tale, Bone, is widely regarded as one of the best all-ages graphic novels, so it came as something of a surprise when an Apple Valley, Minnesota woman, Ramona DeLay, requested that the fourth volume of the series be removed from her son's elementary school library. Smith was a guest of honor at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) when the news broke, and although his weekend included panel appearances, signings, and the showing of the movie The Cartoonist (a documentary about Smith), he took a few minutes to discuss his reaction to the challenge.
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Comics
Funnies Business: Quantifying Library Penetration for Graphic Novels
Did you ever wonder how many copies a graphic novel could sell in the library system? Figuring out what a graphic novel could do is a bit of a puzzle. Libraries are an up and coming market for graphic novels (or “graphic fiction” or reprint collections; go ahead and pick your terms of choice).
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Resistance Grows as Google Deadline Nears
With a May 5 deadline looming for parties to opt-out of or object to the Google Book Search settlement, Gail Knight Steinbeck, who manages husband Thomas Steinbeck's affairs and the literary estate of John Steinbeck, expressed “grave concerns” over the “pressing deadline” and said she has hired an attorney and is “organizing a group of very high profile, concerned ...
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