BTB #253: New Digital Accent Is Spanish

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...

La edición digital habla ahora español

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...

PW’s Week Ahead: 09.23.11

Welcome, everyone, to a new and very special Friday feature of CCC’s podcast series. Beginning today, CCC’s “Beyond the Book” will speak every week with the editors and reporters of “Publishers Weekly” for an early look at the news that publishers, editors, authors,...

BTB #252: Just My Type

Typefaces, like superheroes, all have origin stories. From Garamond to Georgia, Palatino to Proforma, the look of letters tracks back in time to a single fascinating moment of origination. Joining CCC’s Chris Kenneally to go beyond the book – diving down to the level...

Best of BTB: In the Plex

Join CCC’s Chris Kenneally on a tour of a secretive lair where some of the world’s greatest engineering and entrepreneurial minds plot the campaigns of a global empire. The place is the Googleplex, Mountain View, California; our guide is Steven Levy, author of “In the...

BTB #251: Workin’ in the Content Mine

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...

BTB #249: The Doctor’s Book Is In

When it first appeared in 1979, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper outlined the basic structure of scientific articles, and detailed the basics of good scientific writing style. A generation later, those basics remain largely unchanged, but the writing and...

BTB #248: Exploring Apps Ecosystem

As publisher of nearly 2,000 journals spanning the scientific, technical and medical (STM) communities, Elsevier serves more than 30 million scientists, students, and health and information professionals worldwide. In 2011, however, Elsevier’s customers are also its...

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