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Beyond the Book is changing its name to the Velocity of Content podcast. Produced by Copyright Clearance Center, the global leader in content workflow and rights integration, the Velocity of Content podcast will explore issues facing the information content industry and help creative professionals realize the full potential of their works, while encouraging respect for intellectual property and the principles of copyright.
In a publishing environment buffeted by digital disruption and calls for open access, university presses in 2024 must manage to remain relevant and sustainable even as their audiences grow.
The opening reception for the Public Library Association conference in Columbus was canceled for a tornado warning.
The publisher – one of the Big 5 – was founded in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
The next time you sit down to read a book, remember to thank the links in publishing’s supply chain.
While many books are removed from shelves after a lengthy and public review process, accounts are mounting where the titles were surreptitiously withdrawn from collections, says PW’s Andrew Albanese.
Without exaggeration, the entire London Book Fair stood on the intersection of publishing, copyright, and AI.
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking HB 900, the controversial “book rating” law from taking effect in Texas.
Writers in Hollywood are the latest to declare concerns that technology based in powerful artificial intelligence tools may jeopardize their livelihoods.
“Good name in man and woman,” wrote Shakespeare, “is the immediate jewel of their souls.”
In July, according to BookScan, sales for roughly 180 BookTok authors fell 4.5 percent over 2022.
With new AI services introduced on an almost daily basis, adoption of FAIR Data Principles in research-intensive organizations is more important than ever.
A stipulated permanent injunction prevents the Internet Archive from offering unauthorized copies of books to the global public.
Printed books engendered a culture of communication that endured for centuries. In his new book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, media analyst Jeff Jarvis places us outside the era of print and beyond the world that print created.
Three years since the tumultuous summer of 2020, how have we changed? In publishing especially, what is different about our jobs, our professional relationships, and our attitudes?
When it comes to successful Open Access initiatives, a critical element is high-quality metadata.
While AI isn't a new concept in copyright or technology, it's the top draw for the 2023 Copyright and Technology conference.
The Texas “Reader Act” requires book vendors to review any book that could be sold into a school.
Mark Gottlieb with Trident Media Group explores what authors and publishers should know about TikTok’s move into publishing, and how they may want to respond.
PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya said that any growth the industry has seen has been offset by increased costs.
It’s difficult to imagine more challenging circumstances for a book festival than to be held during war.
Copyright infringement lawsuits from authors and artists against creators of Generative AI software are mounting.
Creating effective plain-language summaries requires looking beyond the language, says Dr. Catherine Richards Golini.
According to PW’s Andrew Albanese, the ALA conference highlighted an organized response from the library and publishing communities to politicized attacks on the freedom to read.
Publishing industry analyst Rüdiger Wischenbart wants your help to map the new uncharted territories of the book business.
The war in Ukraine grinds on one year after the Russian invasion. Ukrainians have so far deterred President Vladimir Putin’s special operation with help from friends and allies around the world.
“The hope is the risk of losing critical state funds will dissuade cities and towns from the kind of bans we’ve seen,” says PW’s Andrew Albanese.
Trade book publishing industry as we know it will soon be obsolete, asserts Thad McIlroy.
A May 10, 2023, CCC Town Hall panel shared best practices for developing research data that is FAIR through culture, training, and technology.
Across all sectors, US publishing sales in 2022 totaled $28.1 billion, according to the Association of American Publishers.
Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT-3 received its language training from 300 billion words on the internet, all written in books, journal articles, and Wikipedia.
As an author, publisher, and organizer of festivals and reading, the late Volodymyr Vakulenko had many roles in Ukrainian publishing, Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina explains.
Data scientists often work closely with librarians. The two roles are complementary, and organizations can benefit from aligning the positions strategically, says Mary Ellen Bates.
Writers in Hollywood are the latest to declare concerns that technology based in powerful artificial intelligence tools may jeopardize their livelihoods.
This week, the possible impact of AI, and ChatGPT in particular, on publishing and related educational businesses came into sharper focus.
A watch is handy for meeting trains and catching planes, but a compass will get you where you’re going.
The traditional reliance of media on advertising revenue is a broken business model that needs a re-boot, says Prof. Victor Pickard.
As chatbots rise, US Authors Guild lobbies for incentives for human creators to continue working.
Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT-3 received its language training from 300 billion words on the internet, all written in books, journal articles, and Wikipedia.
After three years of contentious legal wrangling by publishers and the Internet Archive, the copyright infringement case wasn’t even close, reports Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly.
Publishing industry analyst Rüdiger Wischenbart wants your help to map the new uncharted territories of the book business.
The London Book Fair returns in April with Ukrainian authors and publishers in a special role.
The war in Ukraine grinds on one year after the Russian invasion. Ukrainians have so far deterred President Vladimir Putin’s special operation with help from friends and allies around the world.
The Wikipedia gender gap arises not only from the predominance of male contributors but also from the challenge presented by Wikipedia’s principle of notability.
For publishers, the perfect data party is where you can remember everyone’s name – what they do, what they like, and what content they engage with.
PRH officials say the addition of a new adult publishing group is intended to revive competition among its imprints.
Justice’s decision to make an antitrust example of Google may release the tech company’s tight grip on ad spend and give publishers, especially news publishers, a chance at online survival.
HC and UAW Local 2110 tentatively agreed to unspecified increases to the minimum entry-level salary from a $45k baseline.
Over a generation, Calvin Reid covered the artists and their audiences, the comic books, and the comics business.
While PRH is resetting after its merger plans failed, the trade book publisher is not alone among the Big 5 in facing stormy times.
At Oxford University Press, Niko Pfund faces challenges from the marketplace of ideas and from colleagues keen to redefine publishing and publishers.
The US and other countries should consider developing innovative AI policies and intellectual property laws, says Prof. Ryan Abbott.
In the US election this month, books bans and public school teaching restrictions remained hot button issues, according to Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly senior writer.
For a close reading of Judge Florence Pan’s ruling to block Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster, CCC’s Chris Kenneally spoke with Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch.
With one especially dominant firm in the market, there would be fewer bidders for book rights with negative impact on negotiations for those rights.
The trick to making ebooks accessible and even beautiful is to think of them as software, says Jens Tröger, Bookalope founder.
Upon review of the extensive record and careful consideration of the parties’ arguments’, the government successfully showed that the effect of the proposed merger, ‘may be to substantially to lessen competition' in the market for the U.S. publishing rights to anticipated top-selling books.
Publishers and universities are developing innovative business models for publishing and selling textbooks to help more students afford college in their chosen fields of study.
Supply chain issues have troubled book publishers since the pandemic began over two and a half years ago. As 2022 nears its end, the logistics gremlins are dramatically showing up in the bottom line.
The world’s largest publishing conference returned to the famous Frankfurter Messe this week.
Publishing is sharing information and data on climate change while taking steps to drive systematic change within its own sector.
The National Book Awards ceremony is planned as “in-person” event in NYC for the first time in three years.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an ongoing and escalating attack on science that is much more than a philosophical debate. It is an attack on scientists, too.
For the book world and for readers, proprietary editions of a freely available public report will likely prove quite successful, says Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly senior writer.
A NewsGuard investigation reveals that TikTok searches consistently feed false and misleading claims.
Through the first eight months of 2022, ALA has recorded 681 attempts to ban or restrict library resources in schools, universities, and public libraries.
“The very big trade publishing houses have done their homework,” says the author of Global 50: The Ranking of the Publishing Industry.
No matter what the discipline, fake papers published in unsuspecting scholarly journals are damaging to the trust that researchers and other readers have in what they read.
The daily grind of life in the book publishing industry has come under close inspection this week in a much-discussed Publishers Weekly feature.
The digital revolution has given a rocket boost to how we communicate, says Gen Z Explained co-author Roberta Katz.
Elsevier has launched a global collaboration to understand the impact of the pandemic on confidence in research and to learn how researchers may better maneuver in a rapidly changing scientific landscape.
Efforts to label the case as the “trial of the century in publishing” are misplaced, Andrew Albanese asserts.
The university library holds first a central role as a study space. With enrollment increasingly diverse, librarians and administrators see responsibility for making that study space into a welcoming place, too.
How a 2021 French literary accolade has helped revive interest in an African novelist of the 1960s.
Government witness HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray expressed amazement at the $2.18 billion offer by Penguin Random House for Simon & Schuster.
The conference keynote speaker is Kris Ahrend, CEO, the Mechanical Licensing Collective.
The court heard on Tuesday from “a freelance writer” – bestselling horror novelist Stephen King. As a witness for the government, King, in effect, was taking the stand against his own publisher.
In 2013, in the so-called “Apple e-books case,” Amazon was the alleged victim of a conspiracy by the major publishers. Now, Amazon and the Big Five are named as co-conspirators in a suit brought by Hagens Berman, the same firm that first sued Apple.
“Readers really weren’t sensitive to the identities of the authors. They were welcoming of this diversity of voices, especially ones that had been underrepresented,” says Prof. Dana Weinberg.
Witness lists include bestselling author Stephen King as well as all Big Five CEOS and a host of agents and editors.
New frontiers. Challenging the status quo. These are lifelong career ambitions for Vitek Tracz.
The union is looking for higher pay, improved family leave benefits, a greater commitment to diversifying staff, and stronger union protection.
Important, groundbreaking research happens across Africa. Yet African scientists and institutions rarely see credit in the world’s most recognized scholarly journals, according to Dr. Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Collaborations, Springer Nature.
“We’ve seen public libraries that have turned into shelters, including some at the cities that are being shelled. And we’ve seen the Ukrainian library community mobilize to combat disinformation,” says Nick Poole.
Librarians arrived last weekend in Washington for a wide-ranging professional education program that reflected ongoing political and cultural issues.
Over the same period that Dr. Berk has researched and written her body of work, not only publishing and related technology have changed dramatically but also society and culture.
“The pandemic took a toll on the library community and library workers,” PW’s Andrew Albanese notes. “The profession needs to consider the future of working conditions for librarians and library workers.”
A smart contract isn’t really a contract – it is simply a bit of self-executing code, according to Paul Sweeting. “It’s not the equivalent of a contract of sale or a license contract that is written down by lawyers and signed by both parties and notarized,” he says.
Feeling nostalgic for the days of BookExpo? No one else in the US book world is either.
Alexia Bedat advises podcast creators to learn the lessons of Hollywood contracts and to seek deals that build on the unique strengths of the new medium.
74,000 audiobooks were published in 2021— a 6% increase in output over 2020, according to the Audio Publishers Association’s Sales Survey.
Take a world tour of book publishing with journalists and analysts who cover Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America.