Dec 4, 2011 | Copyright, News
In March, Judge Denny Chin rejected the proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors over Google’s book scanning and book search programs. At the recent “Copyright & Technology” conference, a panel of legal experts considered the unanswered...
Nov 27, 2011 | Digital Transformation, Events
Recorded live on Sunday, November 20, at 2011 Miami Book Fair International, a global look at books and reading in the digital age. Featured speakers are Ami Greko of Kobo, and Ana Maria Cabanellas, Argentine publisher and leading figure in the International...
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...
Nov 8, 2011 | Events, News
Just ahead of an announcement from Barnes & Noble for a tablet-version of its Nook e-book reader, company chairman Len Riggio declared in a keynote address for the 2011 PubWest Conference, “We are committed as ever to the future of our bookstores, and to...
Nov 6, 2011 | International
Scholarly communication is rapidly changing, and information managers in private companies and other sectors are finding new ways to serve their users. Social media, mobile devices, data mining, semantic technologies and other developments are creating a whole new...
