Vancouver’s Shelfie program adds Harvard Book Store to the list of cooperative books points in which ebooks are being bundled with print editions. Read More
When Copyright Protections Are Weakened: Canada’s Warning for Australia
As Australia reviews the country’s IP arrangements, Copyright Clearance Center’s Roy Kaufman says Canberra needs to heed Ottawa’s warning. Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives. Read More
Jailed ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ Creator Raif Badawi Receives IPA Prix Voltaire
Emphasizing ‘the plight of oppressed publishers and writers,’ the International Publishers Association confers its newly renamed Prix Voltaire on Saudi dissident Raif Badawi. Read More
Glimpses of the UBC Library's ‘New’ Medieval Manuscripts
Bright color and intricately embellished texts highlight the UBC Library’s acquisitions of Medieval manuscripts, a “student Bible” and Book of Hours. Read More
Australian-Canadian Funding Goes to Digital Storytelling Projects
Using “new technologies to tell culturally relevant stories,” digital media co-productions pull in more than $500,000 in Canadian and Australian funding. Read More
Rebus: Hugh McGuire on Riddling Out Open Textbooks
The ‘networked book’ could be part of what comes to the fore in the Montreal-based Hugh McGuire’s and Boris Anthony’s Rebus concept for open textbooks. Read More
Canada Calling: BitLit and Shelfie at Three Years
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Publishing Perspectives Editor-in-Chief “It’s been nearly 3 years since I first picked up a phone and started calling publishers.” And Peter Hudson, founding CEO of BitLit in Vancouver, is in a good position to tell newcomers to the publishing startup scene what to expect: “Looking back, I understand why everybody I… Read More