Google does a deal
There are mixed feelings about a deal awaiting approval from the New York District Court that will allow Google to digitise library books still under copyright and sell them online.
More history is in a free anthology called 40 Memories to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Abbey’s Bookshop, one of Sydney’s oldest and best independents, with impressive specialist stocks of literature, crime, science fiction and language books.
Eleven Australians are among 146 writers nominated by worldwide libraries for the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - at 100,000 euros ($200,000) still the richest in the world for a single novel.