Best of BTB: Arab Spring Update

As popular uprisings have spread across the Middle East and North Africa, media pundits have credited Twitter and Facebook. But one Egyptian-born journalist based in New York says the acclaim for social media is misplaced, even though she admits to a Twitter addiction...

Best of BTB: Just My Type

Typefaces, like superheroes, all have origin stories. From Garamond to Georgia, Palatino to Proforma, the look of letters tracks back in time to a single fascinating moment of origination. Joining CCC’s Chris Kenneally to go beyond the book – diving down to the level...

PW’s Week Ahead 12.16.11

The Google Books Case has moved forward – now sans settlement – as the Authors Guild recently met an important deadline set forth by Judge Denny Chin in the six-year-old litigation and filed their motion for class certification. “The case is now on a path where the...

‘Copyright & Commerce’ returns to DC’s Newseum

CCC’s CEO Tracey Armstrong (right) congratulates (from left) Cecilia Kang of the Washington Post, ASMP’s General Counsel Victor Perlman, and Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante, immediately after Monday’s Newseum panel discussion in Washington, DC...

PW’s Week Ahead 12.09.11

Amazon.com announces KDP Select, designed to woo publishers and authors to participate in the Kindle store and the controversial Amazon Prime e-book Lending program. Earlier this week, PW’s Andrew Albanese notes, the university libraries that form the...

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