Velocity of Content

Velocity of Content


Latest Episodes

In DC, Copyright Gets A Reboot From Trump White House
June 01, 2018

Publishing still faces serious challenges in protecting the current retail ecosystem amid changing consumer habits

Publishing’s Gender Pay Gap
May 27, 2018

The digital revolution that gave rise to independent publishing in the last decade has even replicated the traditional segregation and discrimination.

An Indie Author Moves Away From Books
May 20, 2018

“I’ve always been sort of a practical person. I thought, what’s the best thing for my career and my direction? At one point it was traditional publishing, and then it shifted to self-publishing, now it’s shifted to something else.”

Textbook Business Model Shift Angers Authors
May 18, 2018

Publisher Cengage is seeking to pay authors a portion of subscription revenue instead of a contractual royalty based on a per-unit sale, according to plaintiffs Knox and Schact

Publishers Getting into OER Game
May 16, 2018

Developments advancing Open Educational Resources (OER) can and will impact many publishing programs

Entering the AI Era
May 13, 2018

Resistance to adopting technology in publishing has reduced significantly over the past few years as people have gotten used to the idea, and as people have learned more about it

New York Rights Fair Preview
May 11, 2018

The center of the US publishing industry and one of the world's largest communities of literary agents and scouts, New York City is also home to a growing number of film production companies – all of whom are always on the lookout to license intellectu...

Exploring Baltic Books
May 06, 2018

The rarity of the languages and the remoteness of the region make for exotic reading

Author Payments Arrive For Copyright Class Action
May 04, 2018

More than 3,000 writers initially filed claims pertaining to more than 600,000 articles. After all the challenges and delays, 2494 writers received checks totaling $9,456,000.

Aspirations & Anxieties – How Authors Consider Copyright
April 29, 2018

How do authors consider the threats to their livelihoods, and how are they managing the opportunities? What, in other words, do the actual copyright holders think about copyright?