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Latest Episodes
Cicilline Sees Amazon In Antitrust Focus
Times have changed, Rep. Cicilline said, and ‘we must level the playing field.’
Spreading The Word – Rights and Royalties For Podcasts And Spoken Word
Podcasts and other types of spoken word content are an especially rapidly growing category of streaming and downloadable audio.
Outside US, Book World Has Mixed 2020
In Germany, a boom in book sales for the first half of December was followed by a stringent lockdown that crushed the holiday market.
Ranking & Rebooting Publishing
A ranking of top players in publishing isn’t only a numbers game. Assessing the current state of the market in the middle of a pandemic and in the throes of digital transformation requires complex calculations far beyond spreadsheets.
Big Five Now Defendants in E-Book Price Fixing Case
Attorneys for the plaintiffs have said only that they look forward to proving what they see as a major e-boom price-fixing scam
Transformative Models for Scholarly Publishing
Building a strategy to automate and manage “transformative agreements” for OA publishing.
Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO
The only mention of the book business in Amazon’s 2020 year-end results was tied to self-publishing.
Sharing Data, Sharing Science
The world’s largest funder of biomedical research seeks to ensure research data is open and discoverable.
Dr. Biden Boost US Libraries’ Role
The First Lady tells ALA the Biden Administration is ready to work with libraries.
COVID, Publishing and the Future
The surprises from COVID-19 aren’t always unwelcome ones. The arrival of effective vaccines is one such miracle. The good health of the publishing industry is yet another – at least for now.