A Supreme Appeal for Apple

Oct 30, 2015 | News

Thursday was deadline day for Apple to file its petition with the Supreme Court appealing a series of rulings that found the Cupertino, California company had violated anti-trust laws and conspired with publishers to fix e-book prices. The lawyers made it under the...

Video Series Making It on the Web

Oct 25, 2015 | Events

“What Makes the Web Viable?” is one of those questions only college sophomores and media conference moderators can dare to ask and further dare to answer. Many – maybe all –  filmmakers and other creators attending last week’s Digital Hollywood in Los...

Book World Salary Survey Find Lower Pay, Higher Job Security

Oct 23, 2015 | News

Editorial staff who responded to the annual Publishers Weekly industry survey have a knack for reconciling contradictory aspects of their work. For example, they self-reported compensation that on average fell 18% for men and 16% for women from 2014 levels. Yet three...

Authors, Front & Center

Oct 18, 2015 | Copyright, Events

For the opening of CCC’s annual “Town Meeting” on Open Access at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the shift underway in scholarly publishing to an author-centric world took center stage. In a one-on-one “keynote” interview last Thursday morning, CCC’s Chris Kenneally spoke...

In Frankfurt, Rushdie Battles War on Free Speech

Oct 16, 2015 | News

In an address to the press conference opening the Frankfurt Book Fair, author Salman Rushdie extolled freedom of speech and expression as a basic human right, common to all and not limited to a few. He also cast the book world as under siege and worried that the enemy...

Open Access, The Next Wave

Oct 15, 2015 | Copyright, Events

The Next Wave of Open Access is coming on fast. Scholarly publishing must move beyond a single-issue focus on Article Processing Charges to address end-to-end solutions that engage authors throughout the workflow. At a Frankfurt Book Fair panel discussion organized...

Europe’s E-books Challenge

Oct 11, 2015 | Digital Transformation

Let’s face it, says Rüdiger Wischenbart, not one prediction about the future direction of eBooks has been proven right, no matter where you look around the world. According to the Vienna-based publishing consultant and author of the annual Global eBook Report, the...

Quiet In The Library, Please, Deals Being Made

Oct 9, 2015 | News

The quiet in the library these days is reserved for the reading rooms. In the library business world, there is anything but silence. Whether they are public, corporate or institutional facilities, libraries are witnessing wide-scale change as they move from a physical...

Best of BTB: Open Access: Who Holds the Power?

Oct 7, 2015 | Best of VOC, Events

Copyright Clearance Center welcomes you to join us for another Frankfurt Book Fair Town Meeting on Open Access, on Thursday, October 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Hall 4.C – Alliance Function Room. For 2015, CCC is asking what the “Next Wave” of Open Access will bring to...