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Wars of Words: The story behind the stories about Webster’s Third
Anyone interested the history of American English and the reference works that have helped transform it will be glad to see this review of David Skinner’s new book The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever [...]
Read More... →Top Ten Digital Publishing Stories of 2012
In this article Jeremy Greenfield of Digital Book World offers a good year end summation and review of key issues and developments in the world of digital publishing by highlighting the ten most popular articles appearing in DBW during the past year. Included are pieces that cover [...]
Read More... →University Presses Face the Future
Book Business helped celebrate University Press Week by asking the directors of six university presses What do you feel is the best way to steer a university press successfully into the future in this age of rapid technological change? The resulting report offers opinions about the future [...]
Read More... →Right and Wrong: The Copy-right Infringement
This post from John Bloom appeared in National Review and starts with the wry observation that “whoever turned “copy right” into one word had to be a lawyer.” He supports his comment by noting the vast majority of Americans think that copyright is some form of [...]
Read More... →Open access: why academic publishers still add value
Flying in the face of open access advocates, Alexander Brown (Springer) defends publishers as he points to their continuing costs, discusses the services they provide and explains their role in helping move science forward. Although he admits the cost of printing and distributing [...]
Read More... →How Dead Is the Book Business?
In this article from the New York Times, Adam Davidson discusses the implications of the Random House and Penguin merger. He draws on the lessons drawn from a similar industry consolidation that occurred at the turn of the 20th century as outlined in the book [...]
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