BTB #324: A New Chief for Teleread

Oct 14, 2012 | News

A venerable blog site covering all aspects of digital publishing, Teleread posts on a host of topics from e-readers and other physical devices to innovative virtual libraries. A recent item documented the curious repercussions of Amazon’s return policy – for e-books....

The Week Ahead 10.12.12

Oct 12, 2012 | News

Even as the publishing industry converges in Frankfurt, Germany, for the world’s largest annual book fair, the news keeps breaking elsewhere. This week, in Stockholm, the Nobel committee awarded the Prize in Literature to Mo Yan of China. And in a New York courtroom,...

BTB #323: Books Get A Showcase From Ganxy

Oct 9, 2012 | News

Billed as the world’s biggest book and media trade exposition, Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 opens tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10. As much as the book business is now a technology business, so the Frankfurt Book Fair is also a technology fair. Numerous start-ups are on...

BTB #322: “Open Access,” The Book

Oct 7, 2012 | Podcasts

In scholarly publishing, the movement toward “Open Access” – essentially, making it possible to read and re-use published research without cost or permission – is often taken as a challenge to copyright. But according to OA evangelist Peter Suber, author of Open...

The Week Ahead: 10.05.12

Oct 5, 2012 | News

Trade book publisher Penguin sets to thaw out relations with libraries, but the move on e-book sales is seen as cold comfort by some. “The program is still very restrictive,” explains Andrew Alabanese, Publishers Weekly features editor. “For one, it windows new books...

BTB #321: Publishers, Google Settle “Books Case” Lawsuit

Oct 4, 2012 | Copyright, News

A pair of Frankfurt Book Fairs have made appropriate book-ends to the longstanding Google Books lawsuit. Brought in October 2005 against Google by the Association of American Publishers and, separately, the Authors Guild, the suit charged copyright infringement....

BTB #320: From Germany, A Report on Copyright

Oct 2, 2012 | International

With the Frankfurt Book Fair opening in a week, Mitja Linss of RightsDirect, the European subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center, turns his attention to the host country, Germany. To discuss that nation’s latest legal developments and new business models based on...

Aktuelles zum Urheberrecht aus Deutschland

Oct 2, 2012 | International

Mit der Eröffnung der Frankfurter Buchmesse in der kommenden Woche im Blick, hat Mitja Linss von RightsDirect, der europäischen Tochtergesellschaft des US-amerikanischen Copyright Clearance Center, den Fokus auf das Gastergeberland Deutschland gerichtet und mit Herrn...

The Week Ahead: 09.28.12

Sep 28, 2012 | News

In the weeks before the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published authors no longer find themselves on the outside looking in. Just ask E.L. James. “There is a significant uptick in the number of American agents taking books to this year’s Frankfurt that were originally...

BTB #318: The Power of Print

Sep 23, 2012 | News

The death toll continues to grow. The catastrophe is not one wrought by nature or inhumanity, but by technology. Month after month, another newspaper or magazine will cease to publish and print. Hard copy, ink on dead trees – whatever you call it, print seems ready to...