Sep 25, 2011 | International
It’s been a hot summer in Spain, and we’re not talking only about the weather. Interest in digital publishing in Spanish is heating up fast. With the English speaking e-book market consolidating, the main international players in digital content distribution are now...
Sep 25, 2011 | International
El verano ha sido muy caluroso en España, y no nos referimos solo al tiempo. El interés por la edición digital en español se ha convertido en una cuestión candente. Ahora que el mercado de los libros electrónicos en inglés se está consolidando, las principales...
Aug 28, 2011 | International, News
Content mining is shorthand for “automated information extraction and relationship analysis.” A report from the Publishing Research Consortium notes that content mining is increasingly of value to a broad group of users, from information scientists who use it for...
Jul 20, 2011 | Copyright, International
Are content creators and the creative industries taking full advantage of digital technologies to streamline copyright permissions and boost their businesses online? In Europe, a proposed alliance of creative industries aims to build the essential technological...
Jun 12, 2011 | Copyright, Events, International, Podcasts
Developed by a European consortium coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association (AIE), ARROW — Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works — is a system to help libraries with the identification of rights status and rightsholders in...
May 22, 2011 | Copyright, International
Increasingly, information professionals are called on to be global copyright experts in their organizations. How can they best ensure that end-users have access to copyrighted material while respecting the intellectual property rights of content creators? From Madrid,...
Apr 10, 2011 | Events, International
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...
Mar 27, 2011 | Events, International
In his Paris office overlooking Blvd. St.-Germain-des-Pres, Fabrice Piault, vice editor-in-chief for Livres Hebdo, sees a French publishing industry set to change its look. Even while the new digital fashion is turning heads, though, how good is the fit? “Maybe...
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...
