'The whole creative industry would be undermined,' writes Richard Charkin, by the copyright exception promoted in the United Kingdom.

The Vietnamese publisher, author, and journalist Pham Doan Trang's appeal of her nine-year sentence is rejected by the Hanoi court.

The US market, heading to summer's end, is stable in print sales, at 457 million units year-to-date, in NPD BookScan's report.