Happy Holidays from Beyond the Book and CCC!

As we approach the end of 2008, and behalf of everyone at Copyright Clearance Center, I want to extend my best wishes for the coming new year. These last twelve months have seen many changes in the world, and perhaps the only safe prediction is that many more changes...

Upcoming Podcast: Going Global?

If you dream of taking your book business to the world, it helps to pack plenty of market research and some international diplomatic savvy. On Monday, September 15, “Beyond the Book” will release the first of two installments featuring the U.S. Department...

New York Times Asks ‘Online, R U Really Reading?’

In what promises to be the first article in a series called “The Future of Reading,” the New York Times this Sunday examined how a generation of readers who prefer online content to printed books may be learning differently than their parents and asks, “Is this good...

Upcoming Podcast: From the Book Industry Study Group

An Inside View of the Book Publishing Industry Today If you work in any aspect of the book publishing business supply – whether you are an author, editor, librarian, or on staff at a publishing house – the very next Beyond the Book podcast has potential for real...

Beyond the Book Presents: The Best of BookExpo America

In anticipation of BookExpo America 2008 (May 29-June 1 in Los Angeles), the Beyond the Book team is re-airing past BEA Programs. These programs include Pulitzer prize winners, best selling authors, and fabulous tips on how to make it in the book business. We hope you...

Makeover for author advances? What do you think?

Please take a moment to read Copyright Clearance Center’s own OnCopyright blog about new strategies from HarperCollins for facing the risky digital publishing marketplace, and what this could mean for authors. Also have a look at one of our past podcasts which...