In a week that saw Apple go to school, lawmakers on Capitol Hill watched Wikipedia go dark in opposition to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act. When the lights came back up, there was a new gunslinger in town. “The tech business has shown that its lobbying machine has some game with the way it [...]
BTB #273: Mike Shatzkin Previews DBW Conference
As the third annual Digital Book World Conference prepares to open in New York City on January 23, Digital Book World organizer Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company, tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally that attendees should expect news and insights linked to the very latest industry data. Among the highlights, says Shatzkin, [...]
BTB #272: The HybridBook Arrives
Once upon a time, there were only two kinds of books: Good books, and all the others. In recent years, though, books have really started to branch out. Soon enough, it’s going to get pretty tough to say what is, “a book” – or what isn’t “a book.” While printed books endure, many wonder whether [...]
PW’s Week Ahead: 01.13.12
The rallying cry from Republican presidential candidates this winter is an echo of Ronald Reagan’s famous line that “government is not a solution to our problem – government is the problem.” That’s also a sentiment some publishers subscribe to, and they are taking the cause to Capitol Hill. “This week, an intense discussion kicked up [...]
BTB #271: Now At CCC, Michael Healy Looks To Future
As Copyright Clearance Center expands its business models to address a broader set of licensing issues facing its customers, Michael Healy, the newly-appointed Executive Director of Author & Publisher Relations is expected to be instrumental. In September 2011, Healy joined CCC after serving as Executive Director (Designate) for the Book Rights Registry, and previously, as [...]
PW’s Week Ahead 01.06.12
New calendars hang on walls in cubes and offices around the country. It’s 2012, and the only safe prediction for the publishing industry is that twelve months from now, the world won’t look anything like it did in January. For the first program of the New Year, PW’s Andrew Albanese offers his suggestions for resolutions [...]
Best of BTB: Arab Spring Update
As popular uprisings have spread across the Middle East and North Africa, media pundits have credited Twitter and Facebook. But one Egyptian-born journalist based in New York says the acclaim for social media is misplaced, even though she admits to a Twitter addiction herself. “It was a revolution of courage, rather than a revolution of [...]
BTB #270: For Authors, A Changing World, in Europe & Beyond
Not only publishers feel the impact of the digital revolution. For better and for worse, authors around the world face new questions and new challenges brought by the Internet and the rise of social media. Personal branding and marketing; new income sources and remuneration schemes; copyright protection and licensing; even the act of writing itself [...]
BTB #269: WaPo’s Kang on SOPA, PIPA, and the Creative Economy
On Monday, December 12, 2011, a panel of IP experts and commentators offered their answers and insights into these compelling issues at the Knight Studio in the Newseum in Washington, DC. Cecilia Kang, national technology reporter for the Washington Post helped connect the “wonky” aspects of IP law (as she called it) to people’s real [...]
Best of BTB: Just My Type
Typefaces, like superheroes, all have origin stories. From Garamond to Georgia, Palatino to Proforma, the look of letters tracks back in time to a single fascinating moment of origination. Joining CCC’s Chris Kenneally to go beyond the book – diving down to the level of individual letters – is Simon Garfield, the author of “Just [...]
