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Fast Company November 2005 Lucas Conley |
Getting on the Same Page Book publishing is a difficult and contentious business. Upstart Berrett-Koehler has a more collaborative -- and profitable -- model. |
Financial Advisor September 2011 Ben Mattlin |
Author! Author! What adding a book to your resume can do. |
Salon.com June 12, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Feeding off rejection Calling all unpublished writers: For a fee, Penguin Putnam will tell you how bad your manuscript is. |
Salon.com September 16, 2002 Christopher Dreher |
Bribes, threats and naked readings In a world where more and more new books get less and less attention, authors will do anything to promote their work. |
Inc. February 2006 Dan McGinn |
Written Any Good Books Lately? More CEOs are putting pen to paper, turning the book into a new kind of business card. |
Salon.com August 8, 2000 Janelle Brown |
E-book 'em! AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books. |
Salon.com July 25, 2000 Laura Miller |
Slush, slush, sweet Stephen King doesn't realize the real-life horror he's unleashed on the public. |
AskMen.com February 18, 2015 Ian Taylor |
How To Write A Book The rise of the e-book means the traditional publishing model is increasingly outdated. If you have a story to tell, you don't need an agent or a deal with a publishing house. |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
Searcher January 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Final Hours: Tasini Goes to the Supreme Court The United States Supreme Court has announced it will hear the appeal New York Times v. Tasini. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court will decide the rights of freelance authors and perhaps the future of digital content... |
Salon.com June 13, 2000 Janelle Brown |
Stephen King's horrifying proposal The bestselling author creates a writer's worst nightmare: pay-per-chapter downloadable e-books. |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
PC Magazine May 29, 2009 Dan Costa |
It's a Great Time to Be in Publishing! There are plenty of reasons to be bullish on the publishing industry -- you just have to read between the lines. |
Inc. September 2006 Donna Fenn |
How I Did It: Clint Greenleaf, Chairman and CEO, Greenleaf Book Group Clint Greenleaf helps authors get self-published. |
Information Today January 10, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The Transformation Accelerates In the past year, the "if" and "when" questions for ebooks were answered -- electronic media are now clearly in the mainstream and even driving changes in all aspects of publication/distribution/use of information and literature. |
Investment Advisor June 2007 James J. Green |
Doing it Right There's no doubt that financial advisor Ken Fisher is a control freak, but it allows his firm to deliver personalized service in a machine-like format to 18,000 satisfied clients. |
D-Lib February 2001 William Y. Arms |
Internet Publishing and Beyond The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property... |
Information Today November 8, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Random House and Penguin Merge to Meet the Digital Imperative "The merger will create the largest consumer book publisher in the world," noted The New York Times, "with a global market share of more than 25 percent and a book list that includes contemporary best-sellers. |
Investment Advisor June 2007 |
What Does He Like? Ken Fisher has more than an intellectual curiosity about smaller advisory firms: He's also interested in buying them. So what are the kinds of firms he's interested in? |
Fast Company June 2004 Paul B. Brown |
The Ultimate Calling Card Want to stand out from the crowd and increase your worth in the marketplace? Join the ranks of Peter Drucker, Faith Popcorn, and Dr. Seuss: Write a book. Self-publishing as a way to raise your profile. |
Information Today February 2001 Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
Information Today December 6, 2012 George H. Pike |
`Window' for Terminating a Copyright Transfer Agreement Opens in 2013 A little-known provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 could wreak further havoc on a publishing industry already struggling to deal with the transition from traditional print formats to digital content. |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2007 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Another Digital Divide Looms Districts want digitally based content-publishers say obstacles stand in the way. Can we work to bring the two sides together? |
Salon.com June 28, 2000 Sean Elder |
Can't anyone around here edit? As long-form narrative pieces go the way of Diogenes, magazines search for that rarity: An editor who knows how to edit. |
D-Lib October 2003 Geneva Henry |
On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways. |
Information Today July 2, 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Ingram Digital and Microsoft Join in an Alliance Microsoft Corp. and Ingram Digital Group have signed an agreement whereby Microsoft's Live Search Books program will outsource high-volume scanning and digital management services to the Ingram Digital Group. |
Investment Advisor March 2008 James J. Green |
One Down, How Many to Go? Ken Fisher's the biggest RIA out there, but his firm just got a little bigger by acquiring a much smaller RIA. It's likely the first of many. |
Information Today June 28, 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Tasini Case Final Decision: Authors Win The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of freelance writers' rights to separate compensation for electronic copies of their work... |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 Cheryl Winokur Munk |
The Heretic Kenneth Fisher, a global money manager and longtime Forbes columnist, is a proponent of the closed shop: He runs discretionary separate accounts for institutions and high-net-worth retail investors. Fisher farms out nothing. |
PHONE+ December 30, 2009 |
Channel 101 -- PHONE+ Fact Book 2010 An updated primer of telecom industry basics. |
Information Today February 21, 2013 |
Net Minds Launches Disruptive Team Publishing Platform The platform aims to offer authors and the entire publishing development process a smarter alternative to both traditional and "self" publishing methods. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Job Journal February 1, 2004 Julia Hollister |
Printing & Publishing: An Industry Transformed by Technology Digital technology creates new challenges and opportunities. |
Information Today October 11, 2012 George H. Pike |
Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google. |
Information Today September 18, 2008 Corilee Christou |
Perseus Book Group Introduces Constellation Service for Independent Publishers Constellation is a one-stop service offering digital conversion technologies and new distribution channels to small, independent publishers. |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Wiley Books a Profit The book publisher reports slightly lower earnings as revenues rise. Investors, take note. |
Inc. February 2006 |
How to Become an Author in Five Easy Steps Find your way onto the nonfiction bestsellers list with these handy guidelines. |
Information Today February 13, 2006 Paula Berinstein |
Ad-Supported Free Books Arrive Citing the desire to create new revenue streams for authors, mega-publisher HarperCollins has announced the first free Web-based, ad-supported, full-text business book. |
Information Today August 2000 |
Bookface.com Launches with Ad-Based Business Model Bookface, Inc. has announced the launch of Bookface.com, a fully functional beta Web site that is the first to use its new proprietary technology. The site delivers whole books and excerpts to readers directly over standard Web browsers. |
AskMen.com Michael Hirsch |
How To: Get Yourself An Agent Agents are necessary because they understand the industry they specialize in, know the big players and, more importantly, will know how to sell you and your talents, better than you can sell yourself. |
Information Today April 4, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Post-Tasini Class Action Case Settling for Up to $18 Million The finding by the Supreme Court established that publishers and the information industry had to get approval from authors to electronically publish reports. The amount to be paid to writers under the settlement plan depends on a number of factors. |
Information Today January 17, 2012 Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
Information Today January 2006 Richard Poynder |
To Have and to Hold - Viewpoint: Association of American Publishers The Association of American Publishers has taken a stand on Google Book Search, previously called the Google Print Library Project. Here is its viewpoint. |
Inc. September 2004 Bo Burlingham |
Don't Call Her an Entrepreneur Why did Ani DiFranco reject offers from major record labels and start her own business? "I didn't want to participate in what big corporations are doing to society," she says. |
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement. |
The Motley Fool April 15, 2004 Bill Mann |
Thanks, Philip Fisher An investing legend passes away. |
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |