Copyright Clearance Center's Beyond the Book program explores issues facing the information content industry and helps creative professionals realize the full potential of their works, while encouraging respect for intellectual property and the principles of copyright.
BTB #54: The Future of Reading Continues With Deborah Kovacs
It sounds obvious enough – the future of reading depends on future readers, who are also today’s children. “All of us recognize the responsibility we have to the development of kids’ minds by ensuring that they’re readers,” says Debby Kovacs. An author, publisher, and film studio executive, she believes reading is about more than the book at hand. Kids “need to do the mental gymnastics … when you’re following a story in your imagination. It’s just extremely important to their development and to their growth and to their future as humans.”
Recorded at the 2008 BookExpo America, this special “Beyond the Book” program featured panelists from publishing, academia, and the library community who explored how social networking, online programming, and related technology are poised to become saviors of printed word.
BTB #53: The Future of Reading Continues With Ana Maria Allessi
“Authors want to be read and that’s where we start the conversation,” declares Ana Maria Allessi, the Publisher of HarperMedia as she outlines efforts to reach audiences in innovate ways such as online video. “Authors are a tremendously enthusiastic and happy to partner with us… They say we’ll do pretty much whatever you want us to do because it will lead to more readers.”
If reading is to have a future it must successfully build a bridge from the “old” ways of publishing to the new. Recorded at the 2008 BookExpo America, this program featured panelists from publishing, academia, and the library community to explore how social networking, online programming, and related technology are poised to become saviors of printed word.
BTB #52: The Future of Reading with Paul Dry
“The future of reading is as assured as the future of eating,” promises publisher Paul Dry in this first of four installments from the “Beyond the Book” panel at BookExpo America 2008. “Of course, what we eat, and what we read, will be up to us and what we find nourishing.”
Books and the habit of reading are often placed on endangered lists in our own time. In this discussion of the Future of Reading, panelists from publishing, academia, and the library community explore how social networking, online programming (including Internet-delivered TV), and related technology are poised to become saviors of printed word.
BTB #51: Upfront and Unscripted with eMusic CEO David Pakman
In this half hour program, Christopher Kenneally, Director of Author & Creator Relations for Copyright Clearance Center, sits down with David Pakman, CEO of eMusic, to discuss how publishers should adapt to new and changing digital channels for audio and beyond.
eMusic has been a pioneer in offering customers digital content in open formats since 1998 and is the world’s largest seller of MP3 music and audiobooks. After testing DRM-free audiobooks on eMusic, Random House recently announced that it would cease to use DRM (digital rights management) on its digital files - a major reversal and one with huge implications for the publishing industry. Although DRM has long been publishers’ answer to piracy prevention, eMusic is now calling on publishers and other content owners to follow Random House’s lead.
Pakman discusses why selling consumers media in the format they want does not result in increased piracy, the dangers of a single dominant digital retailer and ways publishers can increase sales in the digital age.
For more information about eMusic, please click here (PDF). For more about their MP3 Audiobook Catalog, please click here (PDF).
This program was originally recorded at this year’s BookExpo America in Los Angeles.
BTB #50: Declaring Independence: PMA Becomes IBPA
In conjunction with PMA’s announcement of their new name at this year’s Publishing University, Chris Kenneally, Director of Author Relations at Copyright Clearance Center, takes 10 minutes to discuss IBPA’s mission and what the group is doing nationally for independent book publishers with Florrie Binford Kitchler, President of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).
Along with being the current president of the Independent Book Publishers Association, Florrie Binford Kichler founded her own company, Patria Press, specifically to restore to print a classic children’s book series first published 70 years ago The company’s Young Patriots Series has since won 9 national awards.
Florrie is a member of the Children’s Book Council, serves on the boards of Indiana University Women’s MBA Advisory Board, and the ACLU of Indiana. She earned BA and MBA degrees from Indiana University, and is an alumna of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course.
BTB #49: From the Book Industry Study Group
An Inside View of the Book Publishing Industry Today
By exclusive arrangement with the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), “Beyond the Book” presents an interview with the co-authors of Book Industry TRENDS 2008 - The Only Complete View of the Book Publishing Industry, featuring Michael Healy, BISG Executive Director, and Fordham University Prof. Albert N. Greco of the Institute for Publishing Research. 
This podcast special coincides with the report’s June 16th publication. Learn what’s hot and what’s not, all with the potential for directly impacting you and your place in the book publishing business.
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 impact on how you work. By exclusive arrangement with the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), we will present the co-authors of Book Industry TRENDS 2008 - The Only Complete View of the Book Publishing Industry coinciding with the report’s official launch date on Monday, June 16.
Featuring Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), and Prof. Albert N. Greco of Fordham University and the Institute for Publishing Research, this special program will highlight what’s new and important from the TRENDS report, the industry’s most comprehensive view of U.S. book publishing.
BISG is the industry’s leading trade association for policy, standards, and research. For over thirty years BISG has provided a forum for professionals to come together and address issues to advance the book community.
To read a press release announcing publication of Book Industry TRENDS 2008, click here.
BTB #48: Upfront and Unscripted with Film Producer Jeff Sharp
Jeff Sharp is one of New York’s most prominent independent film producers. Over the past ten years, he has produced several notable features, including Boys Don’t Cry, You Can Count on Me, and Nicholas Nickleby. He is currently the President and CEO of Sharp Independent, which last fall announced a strategic partnership with HarperCollins.
In this 2008 BookExpo America Upfront and Unscripted podcast episode, Sharp and Christopher Kenneally, Director of Author and Creator Relations at Copyright Clearance Center, discuss the state of independent filmmaking and how Sharp’s approach to Hollywood has changed since joining the New York-based publisher.
Best of BEA: Books of Inspiration with Oriah
At BookExpo Canada 2006, “Beyond the Book” host Christopher Kenneally hosted Books of Inspiration; a panel discussion of how religion and deeply held personal convictions have shaped our national experience.
This excerpt from that program features Oriah, the author of several inspirational and prose-poem best-selling books
To listen to the whole podcast which also features Marlene Coghlin, Denyse O’Leary, and Brian Stiller please click here.
This podcast was originally recorded at BookExpo Canada in June 2006 in Toronto.
Best of BEA: Books of Inspiration with Martha Simmons
At BookExpo America 2006, “Beyond the Book” host Christopher Kenneally hosted Books of Inspiration; a panel discussion of how religion and deeply held personal convictions have shaped our national experience.
This excerpt from that program features Martha Simmons, a renowned preacher, who authored Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons.
To listen to the whole podcast which also features Jay Allison and Cholene Espinoza please click here.
This podcast was originally recorded at BookExpo America in May 2006 in Washington, DC.
