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Open Access Standard Time
For authors, publishers, institutions and research funders, Open Access mandates require clear definitions to manage publication workflows and ensure data consistency. Authors want to know what rights they retain and whether they are compliant with a given funder...
STM Future Lab Predicts
At last week’s STM Innovations Seminar, the STM Future Lab Committee launched its 2014 edition of the annual report on STM Tech Trends. This yearly exercise highlights the most prominent technology trends that committee members believe will have significant impact on...
Data That Sells Books
In 2014, data is big – and Big Data is even bigger. From baseball to genetics, mining data for business insights can confirm hunches – or annihilate them. Publishers may have the skills and tools necessary to make data-driven financial and marketing decisions, but how...
The Business of Information
To re-envision the business of information demands that we use our imaginations as well as draw upon our knowledge. Information looks forward. Knowledge is merely a record of the past – of discoveries and experiences gone by. As the closing program for the NFAIS...
Bookstores For You And Taylor Swift
When Taylor Swift left McNally Jackson, SoHo’s highly-regarded independent bookstores, gossip bloggers and tweeters wondered just what was in the pair of shopping bags she carried out. Whether they were volumes from the feminism and women’s issues section, or romances...
Royalties For Art Resale Adds to Copyright Debate
In March, US Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ed Markey and Congressman Jerrold Nadler introduced legislation they call the American Royalties Too Act of 2014, or the ART Act, as it’s known, which would provide for a controversial resale royalty in the US art market....
Riggio Portfolio Shrinks
He may have bookselling in his blood, but Len Riggio, founder of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, now has a lot less of it in his stock portfolio. “This week, we learned that Riggio had sold 3.7 million shares of B&N stock, dropping his stake in the company...
Self-Published Authors: Amateurs or Professionals?
For everyone from romance writers to cookbook creators, self-publishing today is easier and more affordable than ever. Certainly, the book-reading public has embraced “the selfie,” and along the way, they’ve made bestselling authors of writers who’ve boldly chosen to...
Getting Over The Book
When was the last time you heard that print is dead? Probably it's been a while. As it turns out, print and digital will co-habit in the book business for some time yet to come. Indeed, earlier this week, a BBC reporter told an important gathering of book publishers...
The Future Is Already Here
Conferences on copyright and the creative industries can leave the impression that copyright has a lot of catching up to do – at least when it comes to technology. At OnCopyright2014, sponsored by Copyright Clearance Center, a panel discussion aimed at providing...
Millions Of Reasons To Like Apple Case Ruling
E-book readers may soon have 500 million reasons to like a pair of rulings in Judge Denise Cote’s Manhattan federal courtroom this week. The only question is, “how soon?” Moving to the “damages” phase of Apple’s e-book price-fixing case, Judge Cote granted class...
Information in the Enterprise
From a world of content organized by news headlines and journal abstracts, business is moving into a universe of data that has potential to reveal insights and yield great discoveries. For San Diego-based Qualcomm, which has grown from seven individuals meeting in a...