Velocity of Content

Velocity of Content


Latest Episodes

S&S Q1 Sales Soar
May 06, 2022

S&S CEO Jonathan Karp said that refinements made to its metadata have improved sell-through, boosting the bottom line.

150 Years of Books With PW
May 01, 2022

Although PW began as a publication for the trade, with the arrival of the web, its audience has grown to include avid book readers and the public.

At BISG, Pietsch Sees “Best of Times, Worst of Times”
April 29, 2022

We learned we were more adaptable than we knew, Michael Pietsch told the annual meeting of the Book Industry Study Group, the first such gathering in three years.

Latest STM “Tech Trends” Launches
April 24, 2022

A key problem with open access information is that we require a new locus of trust, says STMs Eefke Smit. We need to know which information can be trusted or cannot be trusted.

Texas Librarians “Recover, Rebalance, Reconnect”
April 22, 2022

The nations largest state library association meeting returns to Fort Worth.

Data Directions
April 17, 2022

Data can be the key to open new doors to innovation. But if youre using numbers to find answers, you should ask yourself some questions, too.

Soaring Book Sales Take A Fall
April 15, 2022

The party hats publishers have sported since the pandemic began two years ago may now have to come off.

Ethics in Publishing Gets Its Own Journal
April 10, 2022

Fresh air and sunlight are said to be the best disinfectants. The recently launched GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing offers plenty of both.

Warm Welcome Back at London Book Fair
April 08, 2022

Book fair attendees debated whether a blanket ban on all Russian publishing in the face of that countrys February invasion of neighboring Ukraine was appropriate.

Africa Is Reading: The SDG Book Club
April 03, 2022

I love the way the SDGs undergird the human rights, says Olatoun Gabi-Williams. Children should grow up knowing their rights, and human rights undergird what were trying to do with the SDGs to mak