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BTB #23: A Winning Season? It’s Time to Take Sportswriting Seriously
At BookExpo America 2007, Beyond the Book host Christopher Kenneally hosted a panel discussion on the renaissance in "serious" sportswriting. The program featured David Maraniss, associate editor of The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author of...
BTB #22: This Publication Has a Volume Control
As part of the World Bank's "Publishing for Impact" conference on the way the digital age is changing the publishing industry, Beyond the Book's Christopher Kenneally hosted a panel discussion on how podcasting is poised to move publishing toward a comprehensive...
BTB #21: Contract Preparation and Negotiation with Jan Kardys
Contract expert Jan Kardys delivers a wealth of "insider's insights," including the important contract clauses that every author must know, and a detailed explanation of typical subsidiary rights. Kardys has over 20 years' diversified publishing experience for eight...
BTB #20: Giving It Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity?
Beyond the Book host Christopher Kenneally leads a provocative panel discussion at BookExpo America 2007 -- "Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity?" -- which looks at the dilemma facing publishers and authors alike, for whom control of content is...
BTB #19: Meet the Editor, Webster Bull
Webster Bull started his book publishing business from the trunk of his car and a room in his home eight years ago. Now, as editor and publisher of Commonwealth Editions, he oversees publication of 18 nonfiction books a year - nearly 150 titles to date - about New...
Christopher Kenneally to Host Two Sessions at BEA
Christopher Kenneally discusses the two Beyond the Book sessions at BEA: Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity on Thursday, May 31 at 3:00 pm, and A Winning Season? It's Time to Take Sports-writing Seriously, on Friday June 1 at 11:30 am.
BTB To Be at BEA: Chris Anderson Previews ‘Giving it Away’
Beyond the Book and its host Christopher Kenneally will be at two events at the upcoming 2007 BookExpo America in New York (May 31 - June 3). On Thursday, May 31 at 3:00 pm, Kenneally will moderate a panel entitled, "Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized...
FYI: CCC @ BEA-NYC! CU THERE!
Greetings, writing and publishing colleagues: For Beyond the Book and everyone at Copyright Clearance Center, I want to invite you and your colleagues to visit us at our upcoming tradeshow appearances. On Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June 1, we travel to New York City...
BTB #18: On Scientific Publishing with Dr. Barbara Gastel
Dr. Barbara Gastel, physician, associate professor at Texas A&M, scientific author, and editor of How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, discusses with Beyond the Book's Christopher Kenneally, how to best communicate scientific knowledge to a diversifying and...
BTB #17: Textbook Publishing Trends with Kathleen Mickey
One of the nation's leading experts in academic and textbook publishing, Kathleen Mickey, managing editor of information at Simba Information, discusses trends in textbook publishing for colleges and higher education with Beyond the Book's Christopher Kenneally. This...
BTB #16: Michael Cader of PublishersLunch Teleconference
Michael Cader, founder and editor of PublishersMarketplace and PublishersLunch, which together are widely considered the most informed daily source for information on the world of book publishing, speaks with Beyond the Book's Christopher Kenneally and answers...
BTB #15: For Writers, the Accent is on Opportunities (LA)
Originally presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this edition of Beyond the Book crosses the publishing border from English to Spanish and learns how Web-based collaboration in science-research is speeding the pace of discovery. Beyond the Book's...