Data That Sells Books

May 2, 2014 | News

In 2014, data is big – and Big Data is even bigger. From baseball to genetics, mining data for business insights can confirm hunches – or annihilate them. Publishers may have the skills and tools necessary to make data-driven financial and marketing decisions, but how...

Bookstores For You And Taylor Swift

Apr 25, 2014 | News

When Taylor Swift left McNally Jackson, SoHo’s highly-regarded independent bookstores, gossip bloggers and tweeters wondered just what was in the pair of shopping bags she carried out. Whether they were volumes from the feminism and women’s issues section, or romances...

Riggio Portfolio Shrinks

Apr 18, 2014 | News

He may have bookselling in his blood, but Len Riggio, founder of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, now has a lot less of it in his stock portfolio. “This week, we learned that Riggio had sold 3.7 million shares of B&N stock, dropping his stake in the company...

Getting Over The Book

Apr 11, 2014 | News

When was the last time you heard that print is dead? Probably it’s been a while. As it turns out, print and digital will co-habit in the book business for some time yet to come. Indeed, earlier this week, a BBC reporter told an important gathering of book...

Millions Of Reasons To Like Apple Case Ruling

Apr 4, 2014 | News

E-book readers may soon have 500 million reasons to like a pair of rulings in Judge Denise Cote’s Manhattan federal courtroom this week. The only question is, “how soon?” Moving to the “damages” phase of Apple’s e-book price-fixing case, Judge Cote granted class...

New Battlefront for Ebooks Case?

Mar 28, 2014 | News

In a federal courtroom this week, Judge Denise Cote took on a potential new front in the ongoing e-book antitrust battle. Once again, the claim is e-book price-fixing, though this time the plaintiffs are e-book retailers who say their businesses suffered when Apple...

The Web at 25

Mar 27, 2014 | News

“Vague, but exciting.”  So wrote Mike Sendall in March 1989 when responding to a proposal for creation of a new kind of computer network presented to CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Sendall managed coordination of CERN’s vast computer...

A Settlement For Google & Viacom

Mar 21, 2014 | News

How many people watch SpongeBob SquarePants every week? The answer depends on the definition of “watch.” SpongeBob is just one of many television programs owned by or under license with Viacom, a global media conglomerate. The popularity of its characters is measured...

Libraries Reach Far And Wide

Mar 14, 2014 | News

Some 9000 public libraries and branches dot the American landscape, and librarians working there touch the minds and hearts of millions of citizens. From Indianapolis, where the biennial conference of the Public Library Association is underway, spirits are high,...

Robert Levine To Host OnCopyright 2014

Mar 9, 2014 | Copyright, News

From disruptive innovation to legislative evolution, the copyright conversation is getting plenty of attention. On Wednesday, April 2nd at the New York Academy of Sciences, journalists, filmmakers and musicians join media moguls and intellectual property attorneys to...