By Roger Tagholm LONDON: There were some choice phrases on offer at the World e-Reading Congress, held in London this week. “Apple is a walled garden; Android is an open garden – but it has a lot of weeds in it,” was one, from Richard Stephenson, CEO of Yudu Media, the free library of digital content, discussing the relative benefits of …
#PubNewsCheat: GBS Rejected, IPad2 + Inkling, Self-publishing Switcheroo
By Edward Nawotka Our cheat sheet to some of this week’s most talked about publishing news: Google Book Settlement Rejected by Judge, Publishers Mixed After 18 months of deliberation in court, an American judge has ruled against the Google Book Settlement, saying that it would give Google an unfair monopoly. Judge Chin noted that work if it were changed from …