Velocity of Content

Velocity of Content


Latest Episodes

Ranking & Rebooting Publishing
February 14, 2021

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
February 12, 2021

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
February 07, 2021

Building a strategy to automate and manage “transformative agreements” for OA publishing.

Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO
February 05, 2021

The only mention of the book business in Amazon’s 2020 year-end results was tied to self-publishing.

Sharing Data, Sharing Science
January 31, 2021

The world’s largest funder of biomedical research seeks to ensure research data is open and discoverable.

Dr. Biden Boost US Libraries’ Role
January 29, 2021

The First Lady tells ALA the Biden Administration is ready to work with libraries.

COVID, Publishing and the Future
January 24, 2021

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.

Amazon Faces E-Book Price-Fixing Charges
January 22, 2021

Hagens Berman last filed an e-book price-fixing lawsuit against Apple and five of the then-Big Six publishers in August 2011.

The Human Touch for WFH
January 17, 2021

Think about AI not as artificial intelligence, but as augmented intelligence, says Dr. Tracy Brower.

Uncertainty For 2021 As Pandemic Lingers
January 15, 2021

The value of a bookstore is going to the bookstore. To change from that model to an online business model means staff and other business changes that place independent booksellers in direct competition with Amazon.