Feb 14, 2011 | Digital Transformation
Not so long ago, a book was an unmistakable object. Then someone came along and started digitizing content, and very soon, books were something else, something much more than ink on dead trees. That transformation, indeed the redefinition of books, matters enormously...
Feb 6, 2011 | Digital Transformation
The reasons to welcome the arrival of e-textbooks are many, say a leading textbook authors’ representative and a literary agent with extensive experience in the field. Richard Hull, executive director of the Text & Academic Authors Assoc., and his TAA...
Jan 31, 2011 | Copyright, International
With the launch last fall of RightsDirect, CCC’s European subsidiary, Copyright Clearance Center is looking to meet better the needs of multinational corporate customers.” As Kim Zwollo, RightsDirect’s general manager explains to Chris Kenneally, “One of the...
Jan 30, 2011 | Digital Transformation, International
The world came to the 2011 Digital Book World Conference in late January. At Editis, one of France’s leading publishers, Virginia Clayssen oversees digital development. In an interview with CCC’s Chris Kenneally, she accounts for why France has not yet had...
Jan 25, 2011 | Digital Transformation
Forrester Research’s James McQuivey has opened Digital Book World 2011 this morning with results of the first annual Publishing Executive Survey. In a preview of his keynote address, McQuivey provides insight into critical areas including backlist ebook...
Jan 23, 2011 | Digital Transformation
“Books are not reading devices” warns John B. Thompson, a Sociology professor at the University of Cambridge and author of “Merchants of Culture” (Polity Press), the first major study of trade book publishing since the digital transformation...
Jan 9, 2011 | Digital Transformation
“That’s the nature of change,” notes publishing pundit Mike Shatzkin, recalling the last twelve months in the book industry and looking forward to the upcoming Digital Book World Conference that opens January 24 in New York City. His DBW colleague Guy LeCharles...
Dec 8, 2010 | Copyright, Podcasts
Does the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 sufficiently meet the demands of the digital age? This morning on Capitol Hill, New York Newsday Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellis Henican moderated a lively discussion that addressed this question,...
Dec 5, 2010 | Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts
A year that began with the debut of the iPad is about to end with the arrival under holiday trees of all manner of eReaders. The publication of a Forrester Research paper “eBook Buying Is About to Spiral Upward” by James McQuivey, Vice President and...
Nov 14, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts
“We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in the way people read,” declares textbook editor and former English professor Michael Greer. Collaborating with Prof. Tharon Howard of Clemson University, Greer has contributed to the just-published collection,...
