IFRRO aims to help publishers and authors recoup some €300 million annually from lost revenue due to unlicensed content reproduction.
BEA Video Interview: Mike Shatzkin on Publishing’s Priorities for 2011
By Edward Nawotka Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin discusses the erosion of shelf space in bookstores, publishing innovation, English as a disruptive force overseas, and the two priorities publishers should be focused on over the next 6-12 months: price experimentation and improving rights databases. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wxfzHKd0M
The Future of Rights: Standards and Shared Metadata
By Emily Williams The paper book is an object of beauty and simplicity. This neat package has allowed books to conceal for many years the increasingly complex tangle of copyrights they each comprise: rights to text and images, limitations by territory and term of contract, restrictions on the reader. Then came the digital transition, books stripped off their paper packages, …