Jun 13, 2010 | Best of VOC, Events, Podcasts
White House administrations generate books like leaves grow on trees. Only 18 months into the Barack Obama presidency, and already the titles are flourishing in publishers’ catalogs. Two of the most anticipated such books – THE PROMISE: President Obama, Year One, just...
May 31, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts
Sounding more like a college economics professor than a bestselling sci-fi author, Cory Doctorow offers his suggestions for how publishers should arrive at the “right price” for e-books. As for copyright, he defends “fair use” and questions...
May 26, 2010 | Events
A video produced for OnCopyright 2010.
May 23, 2010 | Digital Transformation, Podcasts
The flow of e-reader devices onto the consumer market has quickly shifted from a trickle to a flood. With consumers captivated by the iPad, nook, Kindle, Skiff Reader, and QUE, a massive surge in demand for digitally distributed content is inevitable. As a result,...
May 16, 2010 | Best of VOC, Copyright, Digital Transformation, Podcasts
Preferring to think about “evolving” media, rather than any “new vs. old” dichotomy, a quartet of attorneys with deep experience in the media industry joined Chris Kenneally at the recent Digital Hollywood conference to discuss the do’s and don’ts and...
May 2, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, Podcasts
Author and digital media authority Bill Rosenblatt examines how the proliferation of mobile phones and other networked devices is giving rise to an accompanying mobile screen culture – and what publishers need to do to survive and thrive in such an environment. A...
Apr 25, 2010 | Best of VOC, Copyright, Digital Transformation, Podcasts
E-books and other fledgling publishing forms present opportunities and challenges for authors, even while they raise caution flags when it comes to rights negotiations with publishers. In March, at the Publishing Business Conference & Expo, attorney Sara Pearl...
Apr 18, 2010 | Copyright, Podcasts
At a moment in American political life when so much about Washington seems dysfunctional, the prospects for copyright reform of any hue – red, blue, or some shade between – appear far off. Yet according to Lois Wasoff, a leading copyright and publishing attorney,...
