More Than Books For BookExpo

May 12, 2013 | News

What to expect at BookExpo America for 2013? Books, of course, from the Big 6 publishers to the growing ranks of the indies. Authors, too, naturally – often seated at the end of long lines of autograph-seekers, and this year, as part of UPublish U, they’re sharing...

Books Make Good Listening

May 10, 2013 | News

The idea is often advanced that the rise of video on the Web will undermine reading habits – and that in a contest of pictures over words, the words will come out the loser. The jury is still out, but the spoken word has long enjoyed a warm relationship with books,...

Copyright, Content & Congress

May 8, 2013 | Events, Podcasts

Video’s leap from the big screen and the living room onto office computers and tablets has been speedy. In training, sales, and marketing, businesses have taken fast to film and video, typically by including scenes and full-length motion pictures and TV programs...

Reaching Readers

May 5, 2013 | News

As online merchants displace brick and mortar bookstores, the move throws publishers out of a business-to-business environment and into the arms of consumers. That paradigm shift from B2B to B2C is likely to see emergence of consumer-focused verticals in publishing,...

Hot Books Start With ‘Hot House’

May 3, 2013 | News

With more books appearing every day, finding a book that’s worth the money and time it takes to read becomes a challenge. The publishing business worries over this as much as readers do, and they’ve taken to talking frantically at conferences about “discoverability.”...

Publish The Right Way

Apr 28, 2013 | Events

At the opening of the 2013 Publishing University, presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association, a panel of publishing trend-setters engaged in a lively and informative discussion with CCC’s Chris Kenneally on how to publish the right way. Recorded Friday,...

Who Will Save Our Books?

Apr 26, 2013 | News

A bestselling author has sent out an S-O-S for the book trade. Last week James Patterson took out ads on the cover of Publisher Weekly, in The New York Times Book Review, and in Kirkus asking the questions, “Who will save our books? Our bookstores? Our...

Yale Publishing Course Set for 2013

Apr 24, 2013 | News

From Abu Dhabi to Athens, Shanghai to Sao Paulo, and from all over the United States, The Yale Publishing Course – Leadership Strategies in Magazine and Digital Publishing, and Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing – brings mid-to senior level publishing...

Surviving As A Journalist

Apr 21, 2013 | Podcasts

Freelance journalism has never had it so… Well, how would you fill in that blank? Let’s start with the sunny side: Freelance journalism has never had it so good, as “smart” devices and digital distribution make it possible for more men and women than ever to...

Amazon: Friend or Foe?

Apr 18, 2013 | News

As the US celebrates National Library Week, there’s cause for celebration in the stacks. News from Simon & Schuster details a one-year, pilot e-book lending program with New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Library. Over at the London...