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“Becoming Profitable” – Penguin Random House Celebrates 2018 Sales
With 7 million copies of her memoir sold worldwide, Michelle Obama has made it big as an author for Penguin Random House – but PRH has an even bigger author on their list — Dr. Seuss
Minimum Viable Metadata
As publishers, we need to think about our users, and what is it that metadata allows them to do?
ABA CEO Teicher To Retire
The ABA under Oren Teicher’s watch grew from1,401 member with 1,651 stores in 2009, to 1,835 companies with 2,470 stores in 2018.
Supporting A Better Media Environment
What do we want our national discourse to sound like? What do we want to have conversations with our friends and family about?
Authors at London Book Fair Vote on Brexit
The “psychological effect” of Brexit on researchers, said Tim Britton “is impossible to measure” and could potentially have a far bigger impact than any of the actual policies Brexit may eventually settle on.
Scholarly Publishing Through a Brexit Lens
If the nature and even timing of Brexit remain unclear, one may yet predict that Brexit will mean important changes for the UK’s scholarly publishing community.
Best of BTB: The Web at 25
Today, March 12, marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. CERN, where in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee drafted his proposal for a way to link documents and data across the Internet, is celebrating the occasion, along with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the World Wide Web Foundation.
The Race to the Streamers
Porter Anderson, Publishing Perspectives editor-in-chief, notes important ways that the exchange between page and screen is evolving.
Books, Brexit, and Brinksmanship
The countdown to London Book Fair – and Brexit – is approaching an end.
