BTB #70: Not My Father’s Ingram

Nov 17, 2008 | Events, Podcasts

In a keynote address to the annual conference of PubWest in Portland, Ore., this Friday (November 14), John Ingram, Vice Chairman of Ingram Industries Inc., who also serves as Chairman of Ingram Book Group, Lightning Source Inc., and Ingram Digital Group, laid out the...

Best of BTB: Rights Dissolution or Rights Resolution?

Nov 2, 2008 | Best of VOC, Podcasts

By special arrangement with the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), “Beyond the Book” presents excerpts from an address by IFRRO’s Honorary President Tarja Koskinen-Olsson to the 2007 Annual General Meeting in...

Greetings from the Caribbean!

Oct 28, 2008 | Podcasts

While attending the annual meeting of IFRRO, I turned the “Beyond the Book” microphone over to my Spanish-speaking colleague Sue Kesner, who heard from several representatives of authors and publishers from across Latin America about the importance of...

BTB #69: KISS: Making the Complex Comprehensible

Oct 26, 2008 | Podcasts

The Text and Academic Authors Association presented KISS (Keeping It Simple Isn’t Stupid): Making the Complex Comprehensible with Brenda Berube, Professor, Medical Laboratory Science, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Janet Belsky, Professor, Psychology,...

Best of BTB: Reporting Iraq

Oct 19, 2008 | Best of VOC, Podcasts

On Sunday, Nov. 16, “Beyond the Book” returns to the Miami Book Fair for “Uncovering Race Coverage: What We Mean When We Write on Race, Politics and the American Scene” featuring Keith Woods, Dean of Faculty of the Poynter Institute, along with special guests. A...

BTB #68: Breaking Writers Block

Oct 12, 2008 | Podcasts

The Text and Academic Authors Association presented Breaking Writer’s Block: How to overcome the psychological inhibitions that keep you from writing with Dr. Erin Oksol at their annual meeting in June. This podcast focuses on both the possible causes of...

BTB #67: Going Global Part II

Oct 5, 2008 | International, Podcasts

If you’re planning to travel to the Frankfurt Book Fair, check out the second installment of “Going Global” featuring Dawn Bruno, Global Publishing Team Leader and International Trade Specialist for the New York City branch of the U.S. Commercial Service (an export...

BTB #66: Scott Karp at SSP Roundtable

Sep 29, 2008 | Podcasts

Scott Karp, founder and CEO of Publish2 Inc.was the keynote speaker at this year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable, held in Philadelphia on September 3-5, 2008 The Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable is an annual...

BTB #65: Maximizing a Book’s Impact

Sep 21, 2008 | Podcasts

At this year’s Text and Academic Authors Association Annual Meeting, David Brake presented “Leveraging the Wisdom of Your Crowd: Five Things Every Author Can Do to Maximize a Book’s Impact.” This program offers authors and publishers unprecedented ways to reach...

BTB #64: Going Global?

Sep 14, 2008 | International, Podcasts

If you dream of taking your book business to the world, it helps to pack plenty of market research and some international diplomatic savvy. This podcast episode, Going Global?, is the first of two installments featuring the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Global...