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Audiobooks Continue to Boom in 2020
As this podcast has done since 2017, CCC’s Beyond the Book takes a look again for 2020 at the latest developments and top achievements in audiobooks with two leaders in the field.
Lisa Lucas Joins Publishing’s Top Ranks
An important new hire at PRH and yet another award for Colson Whitehead
Are State Governments Copyright Pirates?
When the US Supreme Court ruled earlier this year in Allen v. Cooper, the outcome for an unusual copyright infringement case left many IP creators dismayed, though it may have pleased Blackbeard the pirate.
Hot Summer for Trump Books
This summer, things are heating up for Simon & Schuster—in courtrooms where President Trump has sought to block books, and in bookstores, too, where those same books have become bestsellers.
Best of BTB: The Fight Against COVID-19 Digs Into Drug Data
“There was a really important moment in my own battle against Castleman disease,” Dr. Fajgenbaum says. “I went from hoping that things would work out and hoping that someone else would figure out a drug, to wanting to turn my hope into action.”
Smart Users Demand Smart Information
A panel of scholarly publishing executives discussed TechTrends 2024, STM’s annual forecast of technology trends impacting scholarly communications, for the recent STM annual US conference.
Trump Family Seeks To Stop Niece’s Book
Lawyers for the Trump family argue that this confidentiality clause effectively gives them an ‘approval right’ over Mary Trump’s book manuscript.
More Global Strategies to Combat Counterfeiting
Over recent years, publishers have expanded and evolved strategies for combating content piracy in response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting techniques.
A Boost For Book Sales From Bolton?
One big book can go far to boost sales, and one such book came under a legal cloud this week when the Trump administration sued John Bolton over his tell-all memoir.
