I’ve written a lot about piracy and a fair amount about DRM, particularly how it…
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Thinking More Broadly About Digital Exports
In the last year-plus, Livres Canada Books commissioned us to research and write two research…
Copyright is Not a Business Model
Screenwriter David Simon, known for his work writing television series that include Homicide: Life on…
Copyright is Not a Business Model
Screenwriter David Simon, known for his work writing television series that includeHomicide: Life on the…
Fighting Scale with Something Other than Scale
Yesterday, I linked to Eric Hellman’s post about “Publishing’s Amazon-powered future“. In it, Hellman outlined…
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,…
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…
The Opportunity We Actually Have
For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading (and re-reading) a column by Frederic Filloux…
Teaching Readers to Devalue Content
Writing on the MediaWorks channel on the Advertising Age blog, Nat Ives recently compared single-copy…