New and powerful digital technologies are good for business in many ways. Going digital can certainly help organizations to market better their products and services. Yet digital is at its most transformative when organizations use it not to sell but t...

The Dept. of Justice lawsuit asks for a restraining order and preliminary injunction compelling Edward Snowden’s publisher Macmillan to “freeze all assets in Macmillan’s possession relating to Permanent Record that belong to Snowden or his agents,

As its stock price tumbles, the online publishing subsidiary of China’s Tencent Holdings is hitting the brakes on an ambitious program to purchase rights for foreign works.

On November 1, Macmillan will restrict libraries to purchasing a single e-book copy during the first eight weeks of a book’s publication.

Online access, competing digital formats, and open access publishing models have all contributed to the sales crash of print editions of academic monographs. But publishers, researchers, universities, and funders, however,

Publishers assert Audible’s Captions service creates a market that must be licensed into. They claim their agreements do not allow for text display, so any new program that goes beyond the scope of those agreements—even if that’s just a few words at a ...

Editors look for things like a high level of engagement – not just a lot of followers, but how many people are interacting and retweeting with an author.

The textbook is a very, very reliable medium to educate students and to facilitate the distribution of content to students.

On a week that leading publishers reported drops in book sales even while profits jumped, the forecast for fall is “wait and see.”

Twitter hashtags and individual tweets often make the leap from smartphone screens to print and cable news headlines. Some tweets even venture farther and land in unexpected territories.