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Publishing’s Gender Pay Gap
The digital revolution that gave rise to independent publishing in the last decade has even replicated the traditional segregation and discrimination.
An Indie Author Moves Away From Books
“I’ve always been sort of a practical person. I thought, what’s the best thing for my career and my direction? At one point it was traditional publishing, and then it shifted to self-publishing, now it’s shifted to something else.”
Textbook Business Model Shift Angers Authors
Publisher Cengage is seeking to pay authors a portion of subscription revenue instead of a contractual royalty based on a per-unit sale, according to plaintiffs Knox and Schact
Publishers Getting into OER Game
Developments advancing Open Educational Resources (OER) can and will impact many publishing programs
Entering the AI Era
Resistance to adopting technology in publishing has reduced significantly over the past few years as people have gotten used to the idea, and as people have learned more about it
New York Rights Fair Preview
The center of the US publishing industry and one of the world’s largest communities of literary agents and scouts, New York City is also home to a growing number of film production companies – all of whom are always on the lookout to license intellectual property and to purchase film rights.
Exploring Baltic Books
The rarity of the languages and the remoteness of the region make for exotic reading
Author Payments Arrive For Copyright Class Action
More than 3,000 writers initially filed claims pertaining to more than 600,000 articles. After all the challenges and delays, 2494 writers received checks totaling $9,456,000.
Aspirations & Anxieties – How Authors Consider Copyright
How do authors consider the threats to their livelihoods, and how are they managing the opportunities? What, in other words, do the actual copyright holders think about copyright?