London Book Fair Countdown

Mar 27, 2016 | Copyright, Events

Approaching April, the book business sets course for London and the city’s annual Book Fair. Copyright Clearance Center hosts special programming on “The Next Wave” for Open Access publishing and examines “The Data Dilemma.” You are invited to join the discussion...

Game Over For Kids Ebooks?

Mar 25, 2016 | News

An epic tale? Well, hardly – but the rise and fall of the e-book may the year’s most critical story for trade book publishers. What lies behind the decline in e-book sales is hardly mysterious – one of the big 5 publishers has flatly pointed to “new retail sales...

IBPA Publishing University 2016 Preview

Mar 20, 2016 | Podcasts

The human genome is a sequence of billions of pieces of DNA, the biological database that makes us who we are. The DNA of independent publishers is equally complex and diverse. With over 3,000 members, the Independent Book Publishers Association is the largest...

A Surprise Waiting At The Public Library

Mar 18, 2016 | News

What’s surprising about public libraries today is that they are more about offering access than acting as archives. In the US, too, the public library is increasingly a community’s home away from home. Ahead of the biannual Public Library Association Conference,...

The Good, The Bad & The Monopoly

Mar 13, 2016 | Events

At Digital Book World 2016 last week, antitrust attorney Jonathan Kanter laid out the basic principles of anti-trust law and how it might apply to the large tech companies that dominate the paths to sales and to marketing of books. Among other issues, Kanter addressed...

Apple Loses, Readers Win

Mar 11, 2016 | News

In New York at the Digital Book World Conference, the Four Horsemen rode onto the center stage. But predictions of imminent apocalypse were likely overstated. One path to short-term salvation for the book business may be the pot of gold at the end of the Apple e-books...

Sleeping Through A Revolution

Mar 9, 2016 | Events

Delivering more of a wake-up call than a keynote speech, Jonathan Taplin today told the opening session in New York City of  Digital Book World Conference + Expo 2016  that while he wishes content were king, “I am worried that platform is king.” He urged attendees to...

City Lights Balances Business & “Poetic Sensibility”

Mar 9, 2016 | Events

Last month at the PubWest 2016 Conference, City Lights Publisher Elaine Katzenberger accepted the annual  Jack D. Rittenhouse Award, presented in Santa Fe, NM. City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti was unable to attend; the energetic 96-year-old recently attended...

Data Not Content Is Now Publishers’ Product

Mar 6, 2016 | Podcasts

Information is the new petroleum. Just as oil and its by-products, including gasoline, drove innovation and development in the 20th century, information will spearhead change across the decades of the 21st century. Industry analyst Doug Laney has defined infonomics as...

Take Two For Hachette, Perseus And Ingram

Mar 4, 2016 | News

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. The 2014 deal for Hachette to purchase Perseus eventually fell apart, but the parties announced this week they’re ready for “take two” on the deal. On Tuesday, Hachette – the publisher of novelists Donna Tartt and...