Dec 12, 2010 | Events, Podcasts
At PubWest 2010 in November, Skip Prichard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group, Inc. delivered a keynote address that urged his audience to embrace the new and rethink the old, when it comes to business models for publishing. By moving...
Dec 8, 2010 | Copyright, Podcasts
Does the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 sufficiently meet the demands of the digital age? This morning on Capitol Hill, New York Newsday Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellis Henican moderated a lively discussion that addressed this question,...
Dec 5, 2010 | Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts
A year that began with the debut of the iPad is about to end with the arrival under holiday trees of all manner of eReaders. The publication of a Forrester Research paper “eBook Buying Is About to Spiral Upward” by James McQuivey, Vice President and...
Nov 21, 2010 | International, Podcasts
The Semantic Web says Tim Berners-Lee, the man who coined the is “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.” Perhaps more helpfully, it comprises “methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning – or...
Nov 14, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts
“We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in the way people read,” declares textbook editor and former English professor Michael Greer. Collaborating with Prof. Tharon Howard of Clemson University, Greer has contributed to the just-published collection,...