• Skip to content
  • Skip to footer

Ooligan Press

Ooligan is an award-winning not-for-profit general trade press that publishes books honoring the cultural and natural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.

Main navigation

  • About
    • Submission Guidelines
    • The Graduate Program
    • Awards
    • Donate to Ooligan Press
    • Ordering Information
    • Green Press Initiative/OpenBook
  • Ooligan Blog
    • Start to Finish
  • Books
    • Frontlist
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Young Adult
    • Education and Curriculum
  • Events
    • Write to Publish
    • Transmit Culture
Publishing News Round-Up

Publishing News Round-Up

By Kurt Spickerman

April 16, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Continuing in its quest for world domination, Amazon has confirmed that it will purchase the digital comics vendor ComiXology. In case you’re unfamiliar, ComiXology is a cloud-based purveyor of digital comics through mobile apps and its website. It features comics from Marvel, DC, and many other publishers, as well as providing its fans with a self-publishing platform—a service that Amazon has also embraced. ComiXology doesn’t only do business in the cloud, though: they also offer partnerships with brick-and-mortar stores through their “Online Pull List” feature, which allows customers to pre-order comics to be picked up at their local comic book stores, as well as offering a suite of tools for comic shop owners to create their own websites and sell comics online. One might expect Amazon to quickly do away with any feature that supports outside sales, but according to ComiXology’s CEO, David Steinberger, that isn’t a danger: “As a wholly owned subsidiary, we get to continue our relationships the way they are, we get to keep moving in the direction we’ve been moving in, and we get to explore the possibilities.”


On Friday, April 11th, the Authors Guild filed an appeal in its ongoing lawsuit against Google’s infamous Library Project. The Guild’s initial lawsuit accused Google of copyright infringement for unauthorized storage of complete copyrighted texts in its databases. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin disagreed, issuing a ruling dismissing the guild’s lawsuit and stating that it is his belief that Google’s Library Project “advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders.” According to Judge Chin, Google’s efforts should be considered “fair use” under copyright law. In its appeal, the Authors Guild contends that Google’s aim in scanning copyrighted material for inclusion in its Library Project is not out of a noble desire to provide more people with more books, but that it is instead an attempt to bolster its own search engines in order to sell more ad space and “build its financial empire on the backs of authors.”

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Authors Guild, Book Sellers, Comic Books, Comixology, Copyright Law, DC, Fair Use, Google+, Marvel, publishing

Footer

Learn More

  • About Ooligan Press
  • Contact Us
  • Donate to Ooligan Press
  • The Graduate Program
  • Submission Guidelines
  • Ooligan Blog
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter

Search Ooligan

Copyright © 2017 | Ooligan Press
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.