All Episodes
Publishing & The Pandemic: The View from India and China
“One thing about Indians is that they really work well when it comes to adversity, and that has been the case even across the country when it comes to the crisis, and the way the crisis has been managed by the government,” says Vikas Gupta of Wiley India.
BISG Measures The Hurt in the Book Business
Symptoms publishers are suffering from the COVID-19 crisis incliude headaches over sinking revenues and lost orders and gut-wrenching pain from layoffs and canceled projects.
Ups & Downs For Publishers in Midst of Crisis
Book publishing has long been a collaborative business and that aspect of the industry will be needed more than ever now. Every segment will have to fight through the disruptions caused by this crisis.
The Fight Against COVID-19 Digs Into Drug Data
“There was a really important moment in my own battle against Castleman disease,” Dr. Fajgenbaum says. “I went from hoping that things would work out and hoping that someone else would figure out a drug, to wanting to turn my hope into action.”
“Emergency” Library “Outside Boundaries of Copyright”
“Your ‘library’ is operating outside the boundaries of the copyright law that Congress has enacted and alone has jurisdiction to amend,” Sen. Tillis tells National Emergency Library.
The Metadata Power Hour
“The consensus across the industry is that metadata is hard, and that is getting in the way of making real progress with these projects.”
Coronavirus “Infodemic” Has Something to Teach
A typical reaction to misinformation is to dismiss it or to wish it would disappear. But Anita Makri says we would be better served by examining it closely.
Book Sales Fall Sharply
Future book sales figures will likely fall further as Barnes & Noble also announced layoffs this week.
Ken Doctor Poses Life-or-death Questions For News Business
For those news organizations able to imagine life after COVID-19, long-term prospects are hampered by what Ken Doctor sees as a skills crisis.
Publishing & The Pandemic
We are recognizing, in new ways, how much of daily life that authors and publishers make possible and how much they make life under lockdown bearable.
Healthy Metadata and the EU Copyright Directive
Publishers must maintain clean, reliable metadata for their content, including about authors, institution, license types, and citations.
Juvenile Book Sales Spike in Coronavirus Crisis
“Does this mean we’ve found the floor here? Probably not – the response to this pandemic is still in its early days.”