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Copyright Takes on the Coronavirus
Copyright may not save your life in an emergency, yet sustenance from fiction and nonfiction is welcome during life in lockdown.
Reidy Death Jolts Publishing
Carolyn Reidy rose to the top job at S&S in 2008 – at the outset of the Great Recession and as the arrival of e-books threatened longstanding business models based in print.
Building Digital Resiliency
On May 5, 2020, CCC hosted a virtual town hall for publishers around the world.
Frankfurt Book Fair Will Happen, Boos Insists
Frankfurt Book Fair organizers are looking at ways of combining real world and virtual experiences to provide an event that will be valuable, “not only to those who have come to the fair in the past, but even those who have never been to Frankfurt before.”
COVID19 By The Numbers
Has there ever been a time when academic research received more attention?
SCOTUS Ruling: “No One Can Own The Law”
No one can own the law, explained US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Publishing & The Pandemic: Rescuing Writers, Supporting Research
In nature, the coronavirus is smaller than a dust particle but its effect on both individual health and society at large is massive. The abrupt halt to all but essential businesses that has shuttered bookstores and libraries is leading to catastrophe for authors and others creators in book publishing.
In Pandemic, Healthy Leadership Needed
“Nobody was ready for [the pandemic]. It’s almost impossible to be ready for something of this nature. But if you have a really healthy organization, and you have caring leadership at the top, usually you get through it,” says Bill Baker, president emeritus of Channel Thirteen in New York and co-author with Michael O’Malley of “Organizations for People.”
In Pandemic, Libraries Cannot Pause For Long
The value of public libraries is rarely questioned in times of crisis, but this crisis is different because it strikes at the very foundation on which the modern public library rests.
