Tag Archives: copyright

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 12/31-1/4

­Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What’s driving the acceleration of publishing? Will Plan S change the landscape of open access? Can publishers design for responsibility?…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 10/22-10/26

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Are diverse books reaching their readers? How should a “good” translation be judged? What can Data Guy’s numbers really show us about…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 10/1-10/5

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What does it mean to write political fiction? Where are the prizes for older authors? How will NAFTA’s new copyright…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 11/28-12/2

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Does reading a book always have to mean completing the whole thing? Should publishing consider the digital revolution as a…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 10/24-10/28

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Publishers could learn from the film industry as they develop subscription services. Crime fiction is seeing more critical respect. Why is digital content…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 10/10-10/14

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Who are the stars of the audiobook world? Indie ebooks don’t often use ISBNs, but there are compelling reasons to consider…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 10/5-10/9

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Has ebook technology stopped evolving? Why do celebrity memoirs sell to publishers for so much? What’s the appropriate length of…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 7/27-7/31

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Should a publisher’s online presence focus on book promotions or on original content? Can fiction change the place women have…Continue Reading

The Kindle Swindle

Now that Google has gone after content farms, the next frontier for spammers is e-books. Mike Essex, a Search Specialist at UK digital marketing agency Koozai, believes that ebooks are the next frontier for content farmers and is already noticing an increasing number of spam e-books hitting ebookstores like the Kindle Store. He originally wrote…Continue Reading

Who Owns Creativity?

At yesterday’s panel discussion, “Who Owns Creativity? Copyright and Our Culture in a Digital Age,” hosted by CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College, panelists were more united in their opinions than the audience of students, media professionals, and self-proclaimed copyright geeks. (Click here to download a podcast of the discussion.) Bill Goldstein, Book Reviewer for Weekend Today…Continue Reading