Worth Reading: Is Sherlock Holmes still under copyright? Leslie Klinger, Holmesian scholar and co-editor (with Laurie R. King) of the recent short-story collection, A Study in Sherlock, is suing the Conan Doyle estate. The estate recently demanded licensing fees be paid for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, an upcoming… Read more »
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News & Notes – 2/02/2012
Happy Groundhog Day! By D. Gordon E. Robertson (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons Do you suppose he’ll see his shadow this year? I hope so; we haven’t had much winter around here this year (the last cold snap excepted), and I know the kids would… Read more »
This Week’s (and Last Week’s) Articles — 8/19 to 9/01/2012
Well, once again (for reasons having to do with a much-too-long to-do list), I’m collecting two weeks of articles in one week.This week, Kobo and the ABA announced a new partnership to give independent bookstores a shot at the ebook market. ABA members will be able to sell Kobo ereaders… Read more »