At The Hollywood Reporter, Pamela McClintock recently got to interview “Hollywood’s top lobbyist“, MPAA chairman…
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A Disease Less Onerous than the Cure
Toward the end of 2011, I wrote a post about “the new choke points“. It…
Revisiting “A Netflix for X”
Writing at Folio:, Bill Mickey reports that Next Issue Media (NIM) has announced an “all…
If Only We Could Limit All of Our Editions
On March 13, 2012, Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that it would no longer print its 32-volume encyclopedia,…
Two-Track Strategies on Lawyers and Libraries
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the North Atlantic Treated Organization (NATO) pursued a…
Libraries: Publishing’s First and Best Defense Against Piracy
At yesterday’s On Copyright 2012, sponsored by the Copyright Clearance Center, competing claims about book…
Advancing the Creative Economy
Today, the Copyright Clearance Center is hosting On Copyright 2012, whose theme this year is…
Tapping into Markets that Don’t Yet Exist
Toward the end of “Context first”, I listed four implications of content abundance for publishers….
“Using Cellphone Technology to Change Lives”
Over the weekend, the Toronto Star published “How the developing world is take that access away.
The Opportunity We Actually Have
For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading (and re-reading) a column by Frederic Filloux…