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Thelisha Woods

Publishers praise Obama's FOI memo | Book Blog | STLtoday - 0 views

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    American Association of Publishers (AAP) praise President Obama for his support of the Freedom of Information Act.
Kristen Iovino

Springer Announces Deal to Purchase Marketing and Publishing Services from Wolters Kluw... - 0 views

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    My workplace, AAPS, uses Springer for publishing one of our journals. 
arnie Grossblatt

Markets Declare Truce in Copyright Wars - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • But content owners also belatedly realize that simply suing consumers who find new, convenient ways to access content online is not as good as finding new business models to profit from customer interest that technology makes possible.
  • his shift by Google led Peter Osnos, founder of PublicAffairs books, to wonder if the book settlement could have lessons for other owners of content. "Google has now conceded, with a very large payment, that information is not free," Mr. Osnos wrote for the Century Foundation. "This leads to an obvious, critical question: Why aren't newspapers and news magazines demanding payment for use of their stories on Google and other search engines? Why are they not getting a significant slice of the advertising revenues generated by use of their stories via Google?"
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    More on the Google-AAP settlement. Key take-away ""But content owners also belatedly realize that simply suing consumers who find new, convenient ways to access content online is not as good as finding new business models to profit from customer interest that technology makes possible."
arnie Grossblatt

Internet Archive Objects to the Google Books Settlement - 0 views

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    The Internet Archive asks the ruling judge to intervene in the settlement between Google and the AAP, claiming that Google will gain a monopoly on the use of orphan works.
arnie Grossblatt

Google Claims Orphan Books, Raising Alarm in Academia - 0 views

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    Concern the the Google-AAP settlement gives Google an unfair advantage wrt to orphan books and may inhibit scholarly access to these out-of-print works.
arnie Grossblatt

A Digital Library Better Than Google's - 0 views

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    Robert Darnton on the opportunity presented by the rejection of the Google Books settlement.
arnie Grossblatt

Google's Next Stop May Be in Congress - 0 views

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    Options for Google in light of the decision to reject the settlement over Google Book Search.
Allison Begezda

eBook Sales Up 160% This Year - eBookNewser - 0 views

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    By Jason Boog on July 21, 2011 3:27 PM According to Association of American Publishers (AAP) sales figures for the first half of 2011, eBook sales were up 160 percent compared to the same period last year. At the same time, both paperback and hardcover sales have sagged.
arnie Grossblatt

AAP Reports 2.8% Decrease in Book Sales in 2008 - 0 views

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    No industry is recession proof, but a decline of 2.8% looks fairly modest by comparison to other industries. Caveats for this report - it's based on 81 publishers, and includes segments that had solid growth (paperbacks).
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