Forget what you learned about the origin of printing. Movable type using Chinese porcelain pegs was invented by Bi Sheng in 1040, four centuries before Gutenberg and his press. And where there is printing, there is copyright, too. So, yes, you can also forget that other myth, the one that says China and copyright are incompatible.
Podcasts and other types of spoken word content are an especially rapidly growing category of streaming and downloadable audio.
“The global publishing sector has suffered enormously from the ramifications of this pandemic,” says Bodour Al Qasimi.“This sudden disruption forced the publishing community worldwide to do some serious soul-searching.”
The world has changed in a decade and a half – and now, Beyond the Book is changing too, CCC’s Chris Kenneally announces. Beginning in January 2021, CCC’s podcast name becomes “Velocity of Content.”
The recently launched Policy Commons hopes to fireproof the online library of the Internet, at least where it comes to policy documents and research papers.