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BTB #207: DBW/Forrester 2010 Publishing Survey Released
Forrester Research's James McQuivey has opened Digital Book World 2011 this morning with results of the first annual Publishing Executive Survey. In a preview of his keynote address, McQuivey provides insight into critical areas including backlist ebook availability,...
BTB #206: ‘Merchants of Culture’ Revealed
"Books are not reading devices" warns John B. Thompson, a Sociology professor at the University of Cambridge and author of "Merchants of Culture" (Polity Press), the first major study of trade book publishing since the digital transformation began a generation ago....
BTB #205: Content Rights & Technology Solutions
The viability of the entertainment and media industry’s future rests on its ability to manage content and control distribution, while making it available to an ever larger customer base. At the November 2010 Digital Hollywood conference in New York City, Chris...
BTB #204: Change is Exhilarating and Scary
“That’s the nature of change,” notes publishing pundit Mike Shatzkin, recalling the last twelve months in the book industry and looking forward to the upcoming Digital Book World Conference that opens January 24 in New York City. His DBW colleague Guy LeCharles...
BTB #203: How Scholarly Publishers Stay Ahead
The first successfully among publishers to monetize content online, the STM (Scientific/Technical/Medical) community continues to lead the way today, says IP attorney Lois Wasoff. Speaking with Chris Kenneally at this fall’s IFRRO AGM in Boston, Wasoff noted that...
BTB #202: Licensing: The Sequel (Part 2)
At Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Copyright Clearance Center joined with the school and LexisNexis on November 8, 2010 to present The Intellectual Property Lecture Series. In this second of two installments for “Licensing: The Sequel,” CCC’s Vice President &...
BTB #201: Licensing: The Sequel (Part 1)
At Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Copyright Clearance Center joined with the school and LexisNexis on November 8, 2010 to present The Intellectual Property Lecture Series. In this first of two installments presenting “Licensing: The Sequel,” entertainment...
BTB #200: Ingram’s Prichard on Reinventing Publishing
At PubWest 2010 in November, Skip Prichard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group, Inc. delivered a keynote address that urged his audience to embrace the new and rethink the old, when it comes to business models for publishing. By moving...
BTB #199: Copyright and the Economics of Creativity
Does the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 sufficiently meet the demands of the digital age? This morning on Capitol Hill, New York Newsday Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellis Henican moderated a lively discussion that addressed this question,...
BTB #198: Forrester Reports on eBook Buying Trends
A year that began with the debut of the iPad is about to end with the arrival under holiday trees of all manner of eReaders. The publication of a Forrester Research paper "eBook Buying Is About to Spiral Upward" by James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst,...
BTB #197: ‘Content’ Gets A Rules Book
“When everything else fails, read the instructions.” That was the sage advice of the Sage of Concord, Henry David Thoreau. Chris Kenneally has just finished reading the instructions for content creation and distribution in the digital age, as written by two pioneers...
BTB #196: A Web Without Cookies
The Semantic Web says Tim Berners-Lee, the man who coined the is “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.” Perhaps more helpfully, it comprises “methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning - or "semantics" - of...