This post invites you to help us shape the agenda for Digital Book World 2015. It was five years ago this summer that David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of F+W Media took me out to lunch and said they thought the book business could have a more useful digital conference — one, in their words, […]
A debate across panels is coming at our London show on June 21
It looks like we’re going to have a bit of an unintended debate stretching across several of our panels at the Publishers Launch show in London. Since I’m the guy who put the show together, I can speak with authority to the fact that it was really unintended. But I consider it serendipitous and proof […]
Copyright Clearance Center could become more important in the digital future
One of the findings of our StartWithXML project was that book publishers can expect the market for pieces of their content and databases of their content to grow, even while the market for books themselves may not. In the context of our XML research, that is part of the reason publishers need to tag their […]
A serious issue for big publishers
The Google settlement brings into bold relief what has been a quiet issue for book publishers, particularly the biggest ones. They are largely in the dark about what rights they own. It is not really hard to understand why they’re in this position and it isn’t really anybody’s “fault”, but it sure is a mess. […]
Riffing on Tamblyn’s “6 Things”, Part 1
Michael Tamblyn, the smart and dynamic leader of Booknet Canada who has performed minor miracles with the Canadian supply chain, gave a talk at his company’s tech forum a fortnight ago that has gotten a lot of deserved attention. It’s 30 minutes long, but it flies by and the presentation is great fun: very much […]