Last year, I wrote a post that expressed concern about a plan by the Book…
Author: Brian O'Leary
Lightning crashes
Today can be the day that this blog became mostly about publishing. Yesterday, my mother-in-law,…
Not so simply adjusting
Toward the end of a presentation I made last week at the Internet Archive’s “Books…
A Unified Field Theory Of Publishing
(This post, which is significantly longer than most others here, covers my prepared remarks for…
Ten rules for radicals
Recently Hugh McGuire sent me a link to Carl Malamud’s talk, “10 Rules for Radicals”….
Know your rights
Writing last week at Digital Book World, Emily Williams posted a thoughtful piece about “Copyright,…
Useless desires
I recently attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), an…
Shame on us
A few months ago, The Atlantic changed its policy to require that interns get paid,…
Challenges and opportunities
Marny Smith, PR manager for Ryland Peters & Small (Cico Books) and a student in…
Moral panics
I’ve recently finished William Patry’s 2009 book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. The book…