BTB #278: Going Mobile in 2012 – Five Things To Know

Feb 5, 2012 | Podcasts

The infiltration of mobile technology into every nook and cranny of our professional and personal lives is irrefutable and irreversible. Very likely, you are hearing this podcast as played through a mobile device, even while you stay current with e-mail and check the...

PW’s Week Ahead: 02.03.12

Feb 3, 2012 | News

They sell books, don’t they? This week, Amazon and Barnes & Noble make news over which books they sell – and which ones they won’t. And a new entry in the fantasy genre, Rose Fox tells us, finds Hurricane Katrina unleashing magical forces as well as...

PW’s Week Ahead 01.27.12

Jan 27, 2012 | News

Returning from ALA’s midwinter meeting, which included the annual presentations of the Caldecott and Newbery prizes, PW’s Features Editor Andrew Albanese notes the number of issues facing libraries these days —from budget stress and complex technology, to copyright...

BTB #276: Publishers Face Future With Growing Concern

Jan 24, 2012 | Digital Transformation, Events, News

This morning, on opening day of the 2012 Digital Book World Conference + Expo, James L. McQuivey, Ph.D., Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, detailed a survey of publishing executives that sees declining enthusiasm about their business chances...

BTB #275: Copyright On the Continent

Jan 23, 2012 | International

It’s a decade since the European Commission set out to create a uniform regime in Europe for intellectual property rights. For the tenth anniversary of that important effort – the 2001 InfoSoc Directive – the Commission presented in 2011 a new strategic approach,...

PW’s Week Ahead 01.20.12

Jan 20, 2012 | News

In a week that saw Apple go to school, lawmakers on Capitol Hill watched Wikipedia go dark in opposition to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act. When the lights came back up, there was a new gunslinger in town. “The tech business has shown that its lobbying machine...

BTB #273: Mike Shatzkin Previews DBW Conference

Jan 16, 2012 | News

As the third annual Digital Book World Conference prepares to open in New York City on January 23, Digital Book World organizer Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company, tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally that attendees should expect news and insights...

PW’s Week Ahead: 01.13.12

Jan 13, 2012 | News

The rallying cry from Republican presidential candidates this winter is an echo of Ronald Reagan’s famous line that “government is not a solution to our problem – government is the problem.” That’s also a sentiment some publishers subscribe to, and they are taking the...

BTB #271: Now At CCC, Michael Healy Looks To Future

Jan 8, 2012 | Copyright, News

As Copyright Clearance Center expands its business models to address a broader set of licensing issues facing its customers, Michael Healy, the newly-appointed Executive Director of Author & Publisher Relations is expected to be instrumental. In September 2011,...

PW’s Week Ahead 01.06.12

Jan 6, 2012 | News

New calendars hang on walls in cubes and offices around the country. It’s 2012, and the only safe prediction for the publishing industry is that twelve months from now, the world won’t look anything like it did in January. For the first program of the New Year, PW’s...