Join us at Lost the Plot for all things books.
This month we talk copyright controversy, free books, book awards and May reads.
Links:
Shakespeare First Folio
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3609165/Shakespeare-First-Folio-fetches-2-75-million-auction.html
Winnie The Pooh's 90th Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2tSqyVJC7M
Future Library Project - David Mitchell
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/30/david-mitchell-buries-latest-manuscript-for-a-hundred-years
International Man Booker Prize
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/16/man-booker-international-prize-serves-up-victory-to-the-vegetarian-han-kang-deborah-smith
Nebula Awards
http://io9.gizmodo.com/women-swept-the-2015-the-nebula-awards-1776706665
Allie Brosch's New Book
http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/touchstone-to-publish-a-new-allie-brosch-book/119879
Neil Gaiman's New Book
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2016/05/finishing-things.html
Breaking the Boundaries
http://www.musecanberra.com.au/events/2016/5/13/book-launch-breaking-the-boundaries
Towel Day
http://www.towelday.org/
Towel Day Game
https://apps.facebook.com/survive-forty-two/
Productivity Commission's Report
http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/intellectual-property/draft
Book Copyright
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/productivity-commission-calls-for-free-import-of-books-copyright-shakeup-20160428-goh806.html
Book Copyright Interview
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/the-productivity-commission/7388204
Book Copyright - Tim Winton
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/tim-winton-condemns-government-plans-for-a-new-colonial-era-of-publishing-20160520-goze2o.html
Book Copyright - Open Letter by Jackie French
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Open-Letter-from-Jackie-French.pdf
Free Comic Book Day
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992
Free Comics
https://impactcomics.comicretailer.com/Free-Comics/page/175
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Redditgifts
www.redditgifts.com
Tinted Edges Book Blog
http://tintededges.wordpress.com