Dec 27, 2012 | Best of VOC, Events, Indie Publishing
There’s no business like show business to serve as a model for book publishing, according to industry veteran Bruce Harris, who spoke this summer at the Yale Publishing Course. “When you’re doing a show, a group of talented people come together. They focus on a...
Nov 18, 2012 | Digital Transformation, Events
Today’s readers – students especially – have high expectations of e-books and other digital media. Ever-evolving technology for tablets and e-readers makes the race to keep up a daunting one for publishers and authors. The leap from printed page to pixel-ed screen...
Aug 5, 2012 | Events, Podcasts
On the leafy campus of Yale University, the view from the summer session at the Yale Publishing Course was of lush chestnuts and towering ivy. Tranquil as it seemed, warned a lecturer, danger lurked for book publishing businesses. That startling call to attention came...
Jul 1, 2012 | Events, Podcasts
In her keynote presentation for the 25th annual conference of the Text & Academic Authors Association (TAA), author Joy Hakim declared, “Textbook writing is, or should be, an artistic task. What we do is very important. We need to do nothing less than write great...
