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Transformative Models for Scholarly Publishing
Building a strategy to automate and manage “transformative agreements” for OA publishing.
Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO
The only mention of the book business in Amazon’s 2020 year-end results was tied to self-publishing.
Sharing Data, Sharing Science
The world’s largest funder of biomedical research seeks to ensure research data is open and discoverable.
Dr. Biden Boost US Libraries’ Role
The First Lady tells ALA the Biden Administration is ready to work with libraries.
COVID, Publishing and the Future
The surprises from COVID-19 aren’t always unwelcome ones. The arrival of effective vaccines is one such miracle. The good health of the publishing industry is yet another – at least for now.
Amazon Faces E-Book Price-Fixing Charges
Hagens Berman last filed an e-book price-fixing lawsuit against Apple and five of the then-Big Six publishers in August 2011.
The Human Touch for WFH
Think about AI not as artificial intelligence, but as augmented intelligence, says Dr. Tracy Brower.
Uncertainty For 2021 As Pandemic Lingers
The value of a bookstore is going to the bookstore. To change from that model to an online business model means staff and other business changes that place independent booksellers in direct competition with Amazon.
New Leadership For IPA
“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.”