BTB #103: What’s In Your Catalog?

Jun 14, 2009 | Podcasts

For mid-size publishers, the impact of the proposed Google Book Settlement is far-reaching, with upsides and down to anticipate aplenty. At a BookExpo America panel last month, David Marlin of royalty-solutions provider MetaComet notes the settlement, “provides a...

Best of BTB: Advice for ‘Accidental’ Authors

Jun 7, 2009 | Best of VOC, News, Podcasts

For one thing, says author/publisher/software developer Susan Daffron, “forget bookstores. People buy our books exclusively online…because that’s where people are shopping anyway.” Daffron shared with Chris Kenneally her provocative and insightful advice on what it...

BTB #102: Meet The Editor

May 31, 2009 | Podcasts

What makes an author’s book proposal stand out? What is it about “American history” that makes the subject so appealing in 2009 to readers? Can a blog be a source of material for a book? Saunders Robinson of The History Press takes these and many other questions from...

BTB #101: The Piracy Project: A BEA Update

May 28, 2009 | Copyright, Podcasts

With digital content more available and more commonly distributed, fears of piracy and lost sales have grown among publishers. In 2008, O’Reilly Media began systematic research to measure the cost – or possible benefit – of “free” and “pirated” distribution. This...

BTB #99: First, You Laugh

May 24, 2009 | Podcasts

Improbable research is research that makes people laugh and then think. Improbable Research is also the name of an organization that publishes a magazine called the Annals of Improbable Research, and administers the Ig Nobel Prizes. Founder Marc Abrahams reveals all...

For Indy Pubs, ‘Strength In Numbers’

May 19, 2009 | Podcasts

A week before classes open at the 25th annual Publishing University, IBPA’s Terry Nathan tells Chris Kenneally, “When an economy gets this way, publishers need to be using their collective strength.” He outlines several new member programs, including a...

BTB #98: From the Gov’t and He Wants To Help

May 17, 2009 | International, Podcasts

Compliance by publishers with the NIH’s public access policies is what Dale Berkley calls “my day job. My afternoon job is reviewing publishing agreements. You can imagine, they all look alike after a while, and they all include provisions that the government...

BTB #97: Knowledge ‘Interoperability’

May 10, 2009 | Podcasts

As part of a program on “Copyright, Open Access, Subscriptions, and Permissions: What Editors Need to Know in the New Digital Publishing Environment,” presented to the recent annual conference of the Council of Science Editors, John Wilbanks, VP, Science,...

BTB #96: The Truth, Or Else

May 3, 2009 | Podcasts

“There really isn’t a lot of point in writing if I can’t be honest,” Lee Woodruff told the New York Round Table Writers Conference in her keynote address, “because when you tell people exactly where your weaknesses are, you really connect with...

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