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Best of BTB: Beyond Print & Paper
The flow of e-reader devices onto the consumer market has quickly shifted from a trickle to a flood. With consumers captivated by the iPad, nook, Kindle, Skiff Reader, and QUE, a massive surge in demand for digitally distributed content is inevitable. As a result,...
BTB #173: An Information Dream
Dennie Heye of Shell in the Netherlands, and Stephen Kizza, a librarian with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Kampala, Uganda, began their information sharing adventure with just two shelves and two computers. Working together, and with the help of...
BTB #172: Publishing ‘Indies’ To Seek Certification
Digital technology and changing consumer habits are helping drive growth in independent publishing. But as Scott Flora sees it, that success can be made stronger with an educational program that “creates a [new] class of independent publishers who are recognized for...
BTB #171: ‘Obama Book Club’ Meets At BookExpo
White House administrations generate books like leaves grow on trees. Only 18 months into the Barack Obama presidency, and already the titles are flourishing in publishers’ catalogs. Two of the most anticipated such books – THE PROMISE: President Obama, Year One, just...
BTB #170: Copyright & Corporate Culture
The challenge of the Digital Age is the ubiquity of content. And for businesses and research institutions, what you don't know about copyright when it comes to digital content can create problems. Robin Neidorf, lead researcher and general manager for Free Pint Ltd.,...
Best of BTB: Cory Doctorow Plays ‘The Price Is Right’ For E-Books
Sounding more like a college economics professor than a bestselling sci-fi author, Cory Doctorow offers his suggestions for how publishers should arrive at the "right price" for e-books. As for copyright, he defends "fair use" and questions strict interpretations of...
OnCopyright 2010
A video produced for OnCopyright 2010.
Live Webcast: E-MAGINATION: What’s Now and What’s Next in Ebooks
Sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association The e-revolution is upon us. What do authors and publishers need to know to come out on top? On Monday, May 24 at 2:30PM Eastern, in a special Webcast LIVE to the world from Publishing University, a panel of...
BTB #169: Beyond Print & Paper
The flow of e-reader devices onto the consumer market has quickly shifted from a trickle to a flood. With consumers captivated by the iPad, nook, Kindle, Skiff Reader, and QUE, a massive surge in demand for digitally distributed content is inevitable. As a result,...
BTB #168: Drafting the Next New Media Contract
Preferring to think about “evolving” media, rather than any “new vs. old” dichotomy, a quartet of attorneys with deep experience in the media industry joined Chris Kenneally at the recent Digital Hollywood conference to discuss the do’s and don’ts and "gotchas" of the...
BTB #167: ‘All Access Pass’ For Global Science
"What goes around, comes around" may well serve as the motto of an effort undertaken by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) to provide access to premium online research journals in developing nations. Research4Life is the...
BTB #166: More Content, More Screens, More Questions
Author and digital media authority Bill Rosenblatt examines how the proliferation of mobile phones and other networked devices is giving rise to an accompanying mobile screen culture – and what publishers need to do to survive and thrive in such an environment. A...