Penguin - Daily Digital Newsround - 01 July

Jamie Oliver has launched an attack on the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, for criticising the school food revolution that his campaigning television series forced Labour to implement. Lansley told the UK's doctors that the healthy school meals introduced across England had failed and were an example of how not to persuade people to lead healthier lives:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/30/jamie-oliver-school-meals-lansley

What Gordon Brown did Next - the former PM is writing a history of the banking crisis. But it's unclear whether Brown is writing for himself or for publication. If he is planning to publish, he faces stiff competition from Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and his wife, Sarah Brown:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/01/gordon-brown-banking-crisis

Some good news for the music industry: The FT reports that robust international demand for UK music and tighter licensing laws have helped British songwriters and composers more than double their royalties from music exports in the past decade. This is rare positive news for the industry, which has seen revenues from recorded music sales collapse and is still struggling to find a sustainable digital revenue model:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7522f4e8-84a7-11df-9cbb-00144feabdc0.html

Shorten copyright and make it stick: Following Viacom's failed challenge to YouTube for having hosted hundreds of thousands of copyright-breaching video clips, this FT article emphasises the weakness of copyright enforcement and suggests that publishers should be willing to offer shorter, narrower terms in order to regain legitimacy:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c446aa38-84a7-11df-9cbb-00144feabdc0.html

A new type of mobile advertising for the iPhone is being launching today by Apple - Apple’s iAds (which will incorporate video and interactive elements) will open within a small number of the hundreds of thousands of applications on the iPhone and, later, on the iPad tablet: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/151d1f0a-8471-11df-9cbb-00144feabdc0.html

Despite recent trading being hit by the World Cup, HMV has reported an 18 per cent increase in underlying profit and CEO Simon Fox has said that a promising release schedule together with new product lines would bode well for Christmas. This strong performance helped to offset the weaknesses at Waterstone’s:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/94405454-846d-11df-9cbb-00144feabdc0.html

Fortune magazine has a detailed interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who discusses the eReader price wars, eBook pricing and competition with Apple:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/29/jeff-bezos%E2%80%99s-mission-compelling-small-publishers-to-think-big/

Former Borders UK chairman Luke Johnson has warned that high street bookshops are finished, according to a piece on Deadline London:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/122400-high-street-booksellers-are-dead-says-luke-johnson.html.rss

And Happy Birthday Penguin - The Guardian has a story (linking from the homepage) on a conference held at the Penguin archive at Bristol University to celebrate the 75th birthday. Penguin enthusiasts gathered to hail "a great British institution", celebrate Penguin's heritage and to discuss the future of the publishing house:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/30/penguin-books-75th-birthday