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Special Podcast: SIIA Executive Face Time
As part of an online series presented by the Software & Information Industry Association, CCC’s CEO Tracey Armstrong sat down earlier this week with Hal Espo, President, Contextual Connections, LLC, a NYC-based consultancy in digital services and applications. She...
Tomorrow’s Innovations Fueled By Today’s Information
Even as Copyright Clearance Center creates and shapes solutions meeting the information needs of rightsholders and content consumers well into the next decade, CCC is taking stock of its last fiscal year in the company’s just-published 2009 annual report (PDF). “The...
BTB #135: A Book Report From Sara Nelson
"Publishing as we know it will die if changes are not made," observes Sara Nelson, one of the industry's leading pundits. Now with O, The Oprah Magazine, as its books director, Nelson is a former editor-in-chief at Publishers Weekly. Unlike many, though, she doesn't...
BTB #134: For Tao Lin, Gmail ‘more accurate’ than talk
In a conversation with Chris Kenneally at the 2009 Miami Book Fair, the author of Shoplifting from American Apparel explains that when characters move from the real world to the virtual one and back, it’s the virtual world where they may be most honest about...
BTB #133: For Google Book Settlement, Wasoff Reviews Revisions
Last Friday, November 13th, the parties in the Google Book Search Copyright Class Action filed a revised settlement proposal, responding to concerns voiced by authors, publishers and the U.S. Department of Justice. For the benefit of our customers and rightsholders,...
BTB #132: What Makes a Book a Book?
In Tucson at the 2009 PubWest conference, the kickoff keynote address from Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah gave hints at finding opportunities in "digital products" beyond e-books, from iPhone apps to software. Understand "what you are expert at [and] which...
BTB #131: Dennis Loy Johnson on Discovering Tao Lin
In a Miami Book Fair Preview, Dennis Loy Johnson, author and Melville House Publishing cofounder, remembers how one book blogger met another, leading to Johnson publishing then-23-year-old Tao Lin. On Sunday, November 15, at the Miami Book Fair, Tao Lin and Chris...
BTB #130: Global Information Partners
Sharing information brings people together – and in this “Beyond the Book” episode, two email correspondents hear each other’s voices for the first time: Dennie Heye of Shell in the Netherlands, and Stephen Kizza, an Assistant Librarian for the Ministry of Energy and...
Special Episode: Protecting Images With Copyright
For DC Fotoweek on Monday, November 9, at the US Navy Memorial-Heritage Center, the American Society of Picture Professionals DC/South Chapter presents Copyright: Protecting Your Images and Creative Work and Why it's so Important featuring John Harrington, President...
BTB #129: Tom Allen On Leading A ‘Born Again’ Industry
This spring, Tom Allen – a former Maine Congressman, lawyer, and Rhodes Scholar – became CEO and President of the Association of American Publishers, following the retirement of Patricia Schroeder, who had served since 1997. A week ago, Chris Kenneally caught up with...
BTB #128: Will the ‘Real’ Andrew Kent Please Stand Up?
Beyond the Book has cracked the case: Kent Anderson –a senior executive for a world-leading science journal – and Andrew Kent – author of the well-received Johnny DeNovo detective novel series – are one and the same man. “There is a yin and yang between my creative...
BTB #127: This Way to Hollywood
It’s a century-old pursuit: Book authors hoping to make it big in the movie business. The explosion of video on the Web now lets authors introduce books and concepts to agents, producers and directors more quickly and easily than ever before. Newly-formed...