This summer, Nintendo will begin offering e-books for its handheld devices, the Nintendo DS and DSi gaming systems. The 100 Classic Book Collection will be released in June for about $20 and include works by Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, and more. Readers will also [...]

The fairness hearing for the Google Books Settlement between Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers took place Thursday. After an hours-long hearing, Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court in New York declined to rule just yet, saying, “There is just too much to digest.” A total of 21 objectors [...]

Harry Potter author J.K Rowling is the target of a plagiarism lawsuit by the estate of a fellow British writer, Adrian Jacobs. As we reported a few months ago, Jacobs’ estate alleges copyright infringement of his 18-page book The Adventures of Willy the Wizard — No 1 Livid Land in Rowling’s Harry Potter and the [...]

The Australian government announced an initiative earlier this week that would form the Book Industry Strategy Group. Kim Carr, the federal minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, said the group would help the $1.5 billion national book industry adjust to the digital age, including increased online book sales and a burgeoning e-book market. “I [...]

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