Managing Copyright Today

Jan 20, 2013 | Copyright, Events

Digital change—and the resulting explosion in ways of combining and using content—puts the increasingly complex issue of rights and rights management at the heart of today’s publishing business. Understanding and managing copyright in the 21st century, a...

Book Sales Secret Sauce – Metadata

Jan 13, 2013 | Podcasts

Once locked away exclusively in the card catalogs of libraries, metadata in 2013 has escaped to the Web where in digital form, it describes the contents and context of data files. And because almost every form of published content today is created in digital form,...

Self-Publishing Gets Respect

Dec 9, 2012 | News

As the success of 50 Shades of Grey makes clear, the book business has made piece with the self-published author. Now one of the best-selling authors in history, E.L. James first made her work available to readers via non-traditional, self-publishing routes. James is...

BTB #295: The Trouble With E-Book Pricing

May 10, 2012 | Digital Transformation

Consumers are taking to e-books fast – almost as fast as they have taken to the readers and tablets where e-books live in the digital world. A February 2012 report from the Pew Research Center found that one in five US adults had read an e-book in the last year. The...

BTB #285: News from Digital Book World

Mar 18, 2012 | Copyright, Digital Transformation, News

Like the clans gathering for the St. Patrick’s Day parade, the houses came together in New York on March 13 for the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers. The audience at the McGraw-Hill auditorium on Sixth Avenue heard the book business’s near-term...

BTB #273: Mike Shatzkin Previews DBW Conference

Jan 16, 2012 | News

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...

BTB #261: Digital Book World On the Move

Nov 20, 2011 | Digital Transformation, News

On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs held up an iPad for the first time, and a global audience held its collective breath. One segment of that audience were publishing professionals gathered in a New York City hotel. The timing couldn’t have been better: something called a...