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Facebook buys a digital book publisher

August 4, 2011 - 5:57am | News | Other themes

A social networking giant Facebook has purchase a digital book publisher Push Pop for an undisclosed amount of money.

The ebook publisher was co-founded by an ex-Apple employee Mike Matas, who designed UIs and artwork for the company's Mac OS X, iPhone and iPad products.

"Now we're taking our publishing technology and everything we've learned and are setting off to help design the world's largest book, Facebook," said the company in a statement on its website.

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Google faces another adversary to its book digitizing: Amazon.com

September 3, 2009 - 3:03am | Law aspects | News

Amazon has joined the battle against Google’s digitizing millions of books on the grounds the deal might change fundamentally copyright law and violate copyright regulation. Amazon applied to the court requesting to decline settlement between Google and Authors Guild because it would change the copyright law by allowing Google to digitize books even if the copyright holder cannot be found, often called "orphan works."

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