The Week Ahead: 09.21.12

Sep 21, 2012 | News

Leaders from the book industry and the American Library Association gather next week in New York City. The Association of American Publishers has invited them to share perspectives on a growing controversy over e-book pricing. For the moment, as the diplomats might...

BTB #317: Authors Take Charge

Sep 16, 2012 | Digital Transformation, News

In 2008, book industry veteran Kristen McLean began research for a book seeking to answer the question “How many decision-makers have to touch a book on its way to market?” Even within a major publishing house, she realized, most people didn’t know the answer to this...

The Week Ahead 09.14.12

Sep 14, 2012 | News

In many, remarkable ways, the book publishing business is unrecognizable from its form only two years ago. Kindles and iPads have seen to that, of course. Last week, court approval of the settlement in the e-book price-fixing case is quickly leading to a re-writing of...

BTB #316: Winning Publishing Strategies

Sep 9, 2012 | Events

There’s no business like show business to serve as a model for book publishing, according to industry veteran Bruce Harris, who spoke earlier this summer at the Yale Publishing Course. “When you’re doing a show, a group of talented people come together. They...

The Week Ahead 09.07.12

Sep 7, 2012 | News

A ruling in the e-book price-fixing case comes sooner than later, even as publishers tally up e-book sales and find hefty gains. But equally hefty legal bills and settlement costs cut deeply into the bottom line. “For all the public comments, and for all the filings...

Best of BTB: Not Sharing, Not Stealing – Infringement

Sep 2, 2012 | Best of VOC, Copyright

At the recent OnCopyright 2012 conference, Robert Levine explained for the audience in a keynote speech how the commonly used language of copyright shapes the debate and makes for confusion on the fundamentals “I don’t think copyright infringement is stealing,”...

Best of BTB: ‘Obama Book Club’ Meets At BookExpo

Aug 31, 2012 | Best of VOC

White House administrations generate books like leaves grow on trees. This video was recorded only 18 months into the Barack Obama presidency, and already the titles were flourishing in publishers’ catalogs. Two of the most anticipated such books – THE PROMISE:...

BTB #315: Google Grants For Non-Profits

Aug 26, 2012 | News

Too good to be true. That’s what you’re bound to think when you hear that $10,000 a month in free online advertising is available to any and every qualifying non-profit. If you’re among the growing number of publishing houses operating as...

Best of BTB: “50 Shades” and More of Self-Publishing

Aug 24, 2012 | Best of VOC

Recorded earlier this summer at uPublishU, the day-long self-publishing pre-conference program of BookExpo. Featuring Jenny Pedroza, co-founder of the Writers Coffee Shop; Mark Coker, Founder, Smashwords; Sandra (Sandy) Poirier-Diaz, President, Smith Publicity,...

The Week Ahead 08.17.12

Aug 17, 2012 | News

Crown Publishing Group gets a make-over, but how extreme? PW’s Rachel Deahl gets the inside story from the make-over artist herself. And in reviews, what’s wrong in America’s downtowns – and why these crimes are committed by architects and bureaucrats, not thugs and...