Best of BTB: Arab Spring Update

As popular uprisings have spread across the Middle East and North Africa, media pundits have credited Twitter and Facebook. But one Egyptian-born journalist based in New York says the acclaim for social media is misplaced, even though she admits to a Twitter addiction...

‘Copyright & Commerce’ returns to DC’s Newseum

CCC’s CEO Tracey Armstrong (right) congratulates (from left) Cecilia Kang of the Washington Post, ASMP’s General Counsel Victor Perlman, and Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante, immediately after Monday’s Newseum panel discussion in Washington, DC...

BTB #262: Reading in the Key of E

Recorded live on Sunday, November 20, at 2011 Miami Book Fair International, a global look at books and reading in the digital age. Featured speakers are Ami Greko of Kobo, and Ana Maria Cabanellas, Argentine publisher and leading figure in the International...

BTB #260: Previewing Copyright and Technology Conference

Copyright and technology have always been indivisible, whether the technology is the printing press or the iPad. Publishers and authors from Mark Twain to J.K. Rowling have struggled to protect their work from infringement, and while innovation may sometimes offer...

BTB #259: B&N’s Riggio Keynotes PubWest 2011

Just ahead of an announcement from Barnes & Noble for a tablet-version of its Nook e-book reader, company chairman Len Riggio declared in a keynote address for the 2011 PubWest Conference, “We are committed as ever to the future of our bookstores, and to...

BTB #255: Headed To Frankfurt 2011

In Danvers, Mass., there’s a look of fall on the local landscape, while the final plans are being made for the CCC team’s annual trek to Germany. Joining Chris Kenneally to describe CCC’s wide range of copyright and licensing related events at the Frankfurt Book Fair...

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