Recently Garrett Kiely, director of the University of Chicago Press, recently tweeted a link to…
Author: Brian O'Leary
Frame of mind
A week ago Sunday, Scott Turow published "The slow death of the American author" as…
The goal of copyright
Over the weekend, author Joe Konrath posted his views of what constitutes "fair use" of…
Data points
Last month I wrote about an assessment of LinkedIn that Josh Sternberg had posted on…
Signal or noise?
Last week, American Business Media (ABM), the association representing business-to-business publishers, announced plans to merge…
Welcome benefits
Last Friday I wrote a post about ways that booksellers, notably Barnes & Noble, might…
Recognize the difference
From time to time I write, directly or tangentially, about the views offered by Scott…
Technological solutionism
At the end of March, I read a New York Times op-ed piece, “Machines of…
“The future at hand”
Richard Nash has contributed a substantial (8,000-word) essay, “What is the business of literature”, to…
The super-threat
In writing “The opportunity in abundance”, I characterized “people not reading” as the publishing manifestation…