Open Access and the Entrepreneurial Publisher

Oct 30, 2016 | Events

Fundamental to scholarly publishing – as the originator, the creator of valued content – is the researcher.  Once upon a time, researchers lay in the shadows, but are forgotten no more. A good deal of the credit goes to the rise of open access business models,...

Pallante Leaves Copyright Office

Oct 28, 2016 | News

As the business day closed last Friday, published reports announced the removal of Maria Pallante from her duties as the US Register of Copyrights, a role she had held since 2011. Subsequent reporting offers insights on what prompted the surprise move, and what it...

Get Smart About Content

Oct 23, 2016 | Events, International

For publishers, content is at the heart of every conversation with business partners – and with their authors and readers, too. Since its acquisition by Copyright Clearance Center earlier this year, Ixxus now goes far beyond traditional Enterprise Content Management...

Frankfurt Becomes A Refuge For Books

Oct 21, 2016 | News

The annual Frankfurt Book Fair is a global jamboree of self-expression. The world’s authors and publishers arrive with poetry, fiction, science and business texts that map to the remarkable range of human talent. In 2016, Book Fair organizers recognize that the...

At Frankfurt, Vitek Tracz Predicts Next Moves for Open Access

Oct 20, 2016 | Events

A “Picasso” says Richard Smith, and a “seer of science publishing,” declares Science. “One of the most important publishers of the last decade,” according to Michael Eisen, Public Library of Science (PLOS) co-founder. A serial entrepreneur, an art collector, a...

RightFind Music Launches

Oct 16, 2016 | News

The opening bars of “Heavy Action,” the longtime theme music for Monday Night Football in the U.S. have preceded many a memorable game. This week, Beyond the Book has “swapped” the MNF theme for our own to help make the point that music makes emotional connections...

Nobel For Dylan

Oct 14, 2016 | News

Well, Shakespeare, he’s in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, and Bob Dylan’s heading to Stockholm to claim the Nobel Prize. From Hemingway to Hesse, Camus to Kawabata, Singer to Soyinka, Nobel winners in literature have authored books of poetry,...

Frankfurt Book Fair Arrives With More Than Books

Oct 13, 2016 | Events, International

We may live in a global village, but authentically global events that unite us across borders are as rare as diamonds. For athletes and their fans, there is the quadrennial spectacle of the Olympics. For authors, publishers and lovers of literature, the book world has...

Experiment in Permeable Publishing

Oct 9, 2016 | Podcasts

In the digital era, reading travels a two-way street.  Indeed, in the view of cutting-edge media theorists, a blurry, disintegrating dividing line is all that keeps the traffic apart Urban dwellers recognize the challenge.  Bicyclists and drivers must learn to share...

From Studies to Standards, BISG Evolves

Oct 7, 2016 | News

Consider the evolutionary track taken by the Book Industry Study Group. Founded in 1975 by the Book Manufacturers Institute, BISG has endured a tsunami of change in publishing over three decades. In 2016, a much different place from the days before e-commerce and...