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<description><![CDATA[Hardy Green is an Associate Editor at BusinessWeek, responsible for the magazine’s book review coverage. He also writes regularly about the book publishing industry, and has contributed features on travel, investing, business history, technology, and careers. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Does BN Nook Compete with Amazon or Starbucks?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:37 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There has been a flurry of news lately about Barnes &amp; Noble's new e-reader, the Nook. It will compete head on with Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader, offering additional features such as limited book sharing and newspaper subscriptions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google and Partners Revise Terms of Digital Book Deal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:14 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Changes in the proposed settlement would pave the way for other companies to license Google’s vast digital collection of copyrighted out-of-print books, and might resolve its conflicts with European governments. The revisions to the settlement primarily address the handling of so-called orphan works, the millions of books whose rights holders are unknown or cannot be found. The changes call for the appointment of an independent fiduciary, or trustee, who will be solely responsible for decisions regarding orphan works.
The trustee, with Congressional approval, can grant licenses to other companies who also want to sell these books, and will oversee the pool of unclaimed funds that they generate. If the money goes unclaimed for 10 years, according to the revised settlement, it will go to philanthropy and to an effort to locate rights holders.
The changes also restrict the Google catalog to books published in the United States, Britain, Australia or Canada. That move is intended to resolve objections from the French and German governments, which complained that the settlement did not abide by copyright law in those countries.
The revised settlement could make it easier for other companies to compete with Google in offering their own digitized versions of older library books because it drops a provision that was widely interpreted as ensuring that no other company could get a better deal with authors and publishers than the one Google had struck.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Greatest Trade Ever: A podcast ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:45:33 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Daniel Gross's guest is Gregory Zuckerman, author of the book The Greatest Trade Ever.]]></description>
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