PW’s Week Ahead 01.20.12

Jan 20, 2012 | News

In a week that saw Apple go to school, lawmakers on Capitol Hill watched Wikipedia go dark in opposition to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act. When the lights came back up, there was a new gunslinger in town. “The tech business has shown that its lobbying machine...

BTB #273: Mike Shatzkin Previews DBW Conference

Jan 16, 2012 | News

As the third annual Digital Book World Conference prepares to open in New York City on January 23, Digital Book World organizer Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company, tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally that attendees should expect news and insights...

PW’s Week Ahead: 01.13.12

Jan 13, 2012 | News

The rallying cry from Republican presidential candidates this winter is an echo of Ronald Reagan’s famous line that “government is not a solution to our problem – government is the problem.” That’s also a sentiment some publishers subscribe to, and they are taking the...

BTB #271: Now At CCC, Michael Healy Looks To Future

Jan 8, 2012 | Copyright, News

As Copyright Clearance Center expands its business models to address a broader set of licensing issues facing its customers, Michael Healy, the newly-appointed Executive Director of Author & Publisher Relations is expected to be instrumental. In September 2011,...

PW’s Week Ahead 01.06.12

Jan 6, 2012 | News

New calendars hang on walls in cubes and offices around the country. It’s 2012, and the only safe prediction for the publishing industry is that twelve months from now, the world won’t look anything like it did in January. For the first program of the New Year, PW’s...

PW’s Week Ahead 12.16.11

Dec 16, 2011 | News

The Google Books Case has moved forward – now sans settlement – as the Authors Guild recently met an important deadline set forth by Judge Denny Chin in the six-year-old litigation and filed their motion for class certification. “The case is now on a path where the...

PW’s Week Ahead 12.09.11

Dec 9, 2011 | News

Amazon.com announces KDP Select, designed to woo publishers and authors to participate in the Kindle store and the controversial Amazon Prime e-book Lending program. Earlier this week, PW’s Andrew Albanese notes, the university libraries that form the...

PW’s Week Ahead 12.02.11

Dec 2, 2011 | News

Libraries take the spotlight this week, as PW’s upcoming issue is the ALA midwinter preview. “Monday’s issue will have 15 pages dedicated to libraries—and to no one’s surprise, e-books are part of that package,” Andrew Albanese tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally, noting that...

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