Jan 25, 2015 | Copyright, Events, International
At last week’s Buying & Selling Content 2015, attendees heard presenters from start-ups, international marketing agencies and leading publishers enumerate the new rules of buying and selling content. From data licensing and copyright to mobile, apps, and SaaS...
Jan 18, 2015 | Digital Transformation, Events
The owners of ebook platforms now have unprecedented and previously unattainable knowledge about how people read. They literally see every time an ebook is opened; on what device it is being opened; how fast it is read; and whether passages or entire works are...
Dec 28, 2014 | Best of VOC, Copyright, Events
From the title, you might think we attended an environmental conference for a session looking at waste management as a strategy to drive incremental profitability. Instead, the program was a part of CONTEC 2014, held just before the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair....
Dec 7, 2014 | Events, International
Say the word research, and what do most people think of? Well, teenagers, at least, and many, many older people who should know better think of Google, of course – or maybe Wikipedia. But if your idea of research is a key word search online and a tap of the return...
Oct 26, 2014 | Copyright, Events
From the title, you might think we attended an environmental conference for a session looking at waste management as a strategy to drive incremental profitability. Instead, the program was a part of CONTEC 2014, held just before the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair....
Oct 12, 2014 | Copyright, Events, International
Frankfurt is the birthplace of book fairs, and of sturm und drang – or at least, it is the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in Frankfurt in 1749. Goethe embodied German Romanticism, which enobled sturm und drang – storm and stress – as the iron-hard...
Sep 28, 2014 | Events, International, News
Deal or no deal? That’s always the most common — and the most important — question at the Frankfurt Book Fair. For the hundreds of publishers, agents and organizations who will attend the world’s largest gathering of executives in the book...
Jul 6, 2014 | Best of VOC, Events
For the book business in 2014, everything is new – for proof, turn to the news media, which breathlessly covers the breaking stories as if filing dispatches from a war. Self-publishing particularly receives attention, and is often pitched as a David and Goliath tale....
Jun 8, 2014 | Events, Indie Publishing, Podcasts
As the independent publishing boom swells further, more authors are seizing the opportunity to take control of their writing careers. And while that move may offer potential for greater financial reward and even greater personal satisfaction, it means more work, too....
