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New Zealand have been unable to come together with Google when it comes to getting Google to digitise books. This deal is a deal that been performed globally and was believes to a done deal.

The deal has fallen through as Google could not get over complications with copyright issues. This means that Google will not be at this point in time doing any books for New Zealand. But I am positive in the future that this will change and I recon that google will be able to include books in the search results in the near future. It just means you will have to wait a little long for your books.

This month I will be review some news and views that I find on the internet. I am to give people an insight to the world of publishing. This should be as entertaining for you as it is for me.

I am going to be pushing as much info at you as possible so you will have to watch this space. I hope to be able to educate myself and others as well.

The next post that I am going to do is talk about how Google wont be digitising New Zealand’s books. This should be a exciting article for all the masses.

The now famous Northern Irish band Snow Patrol are venturing into the publishing arena in an effort to support up and coming new talent.

The idea behind the start up of Polar Music is to provide publishing services to music artists by music artists. By cutting out the corporate money makers who would mark up every publishing service they offer, the band hope their more direct approach will give new bands and artists an opportunity to see the publishing processes implemented, giving them more control and input to their publishing requirements.

With Polar Music running as an independent entity to Snow Patrols parent record company, Universal Music Publishing, it will provide an initial stepping stone for breaking artists to been seen in what has become a very competitive market.

How times have progressed for the band, as it was once lead singer Gary Lightbody who had to sell his record collection to afford his rent, but hopefully with the creation of Polar Music, more music hopeful’s will benefit from Snow Patrol’s company, and avoid some of the costly pit falls on the route to stardom.

The committee responsible for organising the London 2012 Olympic, LOCOG, have put out the publishing contracts on tender for all the brochures, programmes and magazines which will printed and distributed throughout the Games.

No indication has been given as to how many agencies shall be pitching, but the presentation process is due to start around the end of September this year.

A few partnership deals have already been set up, notably with McCann World Group who will manage the strategy behind the marketing communications once the pitch for the publishing is won. Other partnerships which include various well know Great British brands like Scalextrix, Hornby and Airfix all providing merchandise for the Games with Ticketmaster selected for the provision of all tickets, which go on sale in 2011 for both the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games.

As well as pitching for the print and publishing rights for the 2012 Games, the cities agencies will be pitching to the Mayor, Boris Johnson, with rebranding solutions for London itself. The pitch will require a new logo for the capital and will amount to a £600,000 spend on re-vamping the image of London.