Book Rights Registry News & Articles

Our web publishing updates continue to split the focus between online and print publishing. Often, it turns out that they influence each other, as well as impacting the other industries stuck in the middle (read: advertising!)

What iTunes has been to music, Google hope its new deal with the U.S. publishing industry will be to books.

Hailed as a key moment in e-publishing, Google will offer readers an opportunity to view free samples of titles — even those out-of-print or hard to find — which they search for using Google and get the option to buy more. Google will pay royalties to the Book Rights Registry, which will distribute them to authors and publishers.