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BTB #72: Uncovering Race Coverage
Chris Kenneally and “Beyond the Book” returned to the Miami Book Fair for “Uncovering Race Coverage: What We Mean When We Write on Race, Politics and the American Scene.” Kenneally was joined by Keith Woods, Dean of Faculty of the Poynter Institute, along with Brad...
BTB #71: Scott Flora on SPAN’s PubWest Partnership
From Portland, Oregon, and the annual PubWest conference, Chris Kenneally speaks with Copyright Clearance Center partner Scott Flora of the Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN). Flora gives us his take on surviving in a tightening economy and why...
BTB #70: Not My Father’s Ingram
In a keynote address to the annual conference of PubWest in Portland, Ore., this Friday (November 14), John Ingram, Vice Chairman of Ingram Industries Inc., who also serves as Chairman of Ingram Book Group, Lightning Source Inc., and Ingram Digital Group, laid out the...
Best of BTB: Rights Dissolution or Rights Resolution?
By special arrangement with the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), "Beyond the Book" presents excerpts from an address by IFRRO's Honorary President Tarja Koskinen-Olsson to the 2007 Annual General Meeting in Dublin. Ms....
Greetings from the Caribbean!
While attending the annual meeting of IFRRO, I turned the "Beyond the Book" microphone over to my Spanish-speaking colleague Sue Kesner, who heard from several representatives of authors and publishers from across Latin America about the importance of protecting...
BTB #69: KISS: Making the Complex Comprehensible
The Text and Academic Authors Association presented KISS (Keeping It Simple Isn't Stupid): Making the Complex Comprehensible with Brenda Berube, Professor, Medical Laboratory Science, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Janet Belsky, Professor, Psychology, Middle...
Best of BTB: Reporting Iraq
On Sunday, Nov. 16, “Beyond the Book” returns to the Miami Book Fair for “Uncovering Race Coverage: What We Mean When We Write on Race, Politics and the American Scene” featuring Keith Woods, Dean of Faculty of the Poynter Institute, along with special guests. A...
BTB #68: Breaking Writers Block
The Text and Academic Authors Association presented Breaking Writer’s Block: How to overcome the psychological inhibitions that keep you from writing with Dr. Erin Oksol at their annual meeting in June. This podcast focuses on both the possible causes of writer's...
BTB #67: Going Global Part II
If you’re planning to travel to the Frankfurt Book Fair, check out the second installment of “Going Global” featuring Dawn Bruno, Global Publishing Team Leader and International Trade Specialist for the New York City branch of the U.S. Commercial Service (an export...
BTB #66: Scott Karp at SSP Roundtable
Scott Karp, founder and CEO of Publish2 Inc.was the keynote speaker at this year's Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable, held in Philadelphia on September 3-5, 2008 The Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable is an annual...
BTB #65: Maximizing a Book’s Impact
At this year’s Text and Academic Authors Association Annual Meeting, David Brake presented “Leveraging the Wisdom of Your Crowd: Five Things Every Author Can Do to Maximize a Book’s Impact.” This program offers authors and publishers unprecedented ways to reach...
BTB #64: Going Global?
If you dream of taking your book business to the world, it helps to pack plenty of market research and some international diplomatic savvy. This podcast episode, Going Global?, is the first of two installments featuring the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Global...