The Rise of the Researchers

Mar 19, 2017 | Events

For so many reasons – including the establishment of Open Access business models, ready access to digital publishing tools, and the nearly limitless power of cloud computing – scholarly publishing in 2017 is innovative and dynamic. Much of the energy comes from the...

London Welcomes Crowds and Chaos

Mar 17, 2017 | News

The political world – or at least the part of it that includes the United States and Europe – may be roiling with chaos. But at the London Book Fair this week, publishers welcomed the pandemonium. Attendance was up for LBF 2017, organizers announced cheerily. Local...

Coming to London – Open Access Forum

Mar 12, 2017 | Events

At London Book Fair throughout the week of March 13, Copyright Clearance Center is presenting a variety of programs on publishing, rights and technology. On Wednesday, March 15, CCC returns with an annual London Book Fair community forum on Open Access trends in...

Friedman Steps Away From Open Road

Mar 10, 2017 | News

One of the industry’s pioneering e-book publishers has announced that she is stepping down as chairman and executive publisher of the company she co-founded in 2009. While Jane Friedman – previously, CEO at Harper Collins – steps away from Open Road Integrated Media,...

London Book Fair 2017 Preview

Mar 5, 2017 | Best of VOC, Events

At London Book Fair throughout the week of March 13, Copyright Clearance Center is presenting a variety of programs on publishing, rights and technology. On Monday, March 13, Carl Robinson of UK-based Ixxus, a CCC subsidiary, will urge publishers to promote a positive...

Obama Memoirs Coming

Mar 3, 2017 | News

US presidents appear on coins and currency, from pennies to fifties. And when they leave office, presidents often become coin collectors too. This week, Penguin Random House announced that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama have signed deals for memoirs, with...

From ACS, How To Be An OA Hero

Mar 1, 2017 | Podcasts

Several recent posts on the well-respected Scholarly Kitchen blog ruminated on the definition of “Open Access” in journal publishing – as in, “What do we mean by Open? And, “What do we mean by Access? After 15 years of OA publishing, the author noted, consensus around...

On Cuban Mission, US Publisher Confronts Censorship

Feb 26, 2017 | News

A 55-year-long trade embargo still stands, but as US-Cuban relations have warmed in recent years, American businesses have moved into position to seize the day should the ban ever become history. Earlier this month, the second US Publishing Mission to Cuba visited the...

Year of Publishing Dangerously

Feb 24, 2017 | News

So far in 2017, the biggest book of the year is one that hasn’t yet been published. The political memoir “Dangerous” crashed into a wall on Monday when Simon & Schuster announced it was pulling away from its deal with the Breitbart firebrand Milo Yiannopolous. If...

Behind the Scenes At WaPo’s Book World

Feb 19, 2017 | Events

In a keynote interview with author Kevin Smokler at last weekend’s PubWest 2017 Conference, critic Ron Charles offers an insider’s tour of one of the last remaining newspaper book sections in the U.S. As editor of the Washington Post Book World, Ron Charles is...