BTB #319: Copyright Is Everywhere

Sep 30, 2012 | Copyright

In a networked world, every transaction between content creators and content users is a rights transaction. Copyright is everywhere. And though some would like to do so, no one in publishing and the media can afford to ignore the often-passionate debate and the...

BTB #317: Authors Take Charge

Sep 16, 2012 | Digital Transformation, News

In 2008, book industry veteran Kristen McLean began research for a book seeking to answer the question “How many decision-makers have to touch a book on its way to market?” Even within a major publishing house, she realized, most people didn’t know the answer to this...

Best of BTB: Not Sharing, Not Stealing – Infringement

Sep 2, 2012 | Best of VOC, Copyright

At the recent OnCopyright 2012 conference, Robert Levine explained for the audience in a keynote speech how the commonly used language of copyright shapes the debate and makes for confusion on the fundamentals “I don’t think copyright infringement is stealing,”...

BTB #314: Digital Book World E-book Best-Seller List Launches

Aug 20, 2012 | Digital Transformation

Over the years, the book industry’s bestseller lists have multiplied and grown to include emerging formats from paperback and mass market to today’s e-books, But a new bestseller list will take an innovative approach to ranking digital titles – one that, for the first...

BTB #313: PeerJ co-founder Binfield on “Inevitability” of Open Access

Aug 15, 2012 | Copyright

In scholarly publishing, the remarkable growth of the “Open Access” movement is the story of 2012. One man has played a starring role in this drama: Peter Binfield, co-founder and publisher since May 2012 of PeerJ, and before that, publisher of PLOS ONE, from the...

BTB #312: What You Should Know About “Open Access”

Aug 12, 2012 | Copyright

“Open Access” (OA) is the single catchphrase for an innovative set of business models expressly created for the World Wide Web. Though the term sounds monolithic, it sweeps up a great many approaches to a single challenge: Sharing knowledge. On Wednesday, September 5,...

BTB #310: Copyright Now A Corporate Social Responsibility

Jul 29, 2012 | Copyright

Professional ethics should not be an oxymoron – that’s the contention of Michael Rasmussen, a business analyst who was the first to define and model the Governance, Risk, and Compliance market for products and professional services. Today, a growing number of...

BTB #309: Copyright & The Cartoonist

Jul 24, 2012 | Copyright

From his studio in Seattle, “The Oatmeal” cartoonist-humorist Matthew Inman posts online his views on everything from Sriracha hot sauce to designs for “how a movie theater should be laid out.” But when he discovered his work re-posted to Funnyjunk, an...

BTB #308: STM E-Books Forecast 2012

Jul 22, 2012 | Digital Transformation, News

Across all of book publishing, the journey from print to digital is about much more than form factor. In the professionally-focused STM sector, publishers of scientific, technical and medical texts face are reckoning with seismic shifts in the way their content is...

BTB #299: E-magination 2012

Jun 3, 2012 | Digital Transformation, Events

Recorded in San Francisco at PublishingUniversity 2012, and presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association. Panelists Molly Birckhead, Senior Online Marketing Manager, HarperOne; Allen Noren, VP Online, O’Reilly Media; and Cynthia Shannon, Publicity...