From the monthly archives:

May 2010

How Public Domain Publishing Can Grow Your Business

May 21, 2010 9 comments

One way self-publishers can increase their product line without having to write more books is by finding public domain books to reprint that are complementary to their topic and appeal to the same market.

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Fair Use, The Rights of Personality, and Unintended Consequences

May 20, 2010 12 comments

When dealing with a rights license, be careful you don’t give away more than you bargained for. And treat other people’s rights with equal zeal. We’re in this together. Two cases of rights issues show that rights can’t be taken lightly, or given easily.

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Bowker’s Andy Weissberg on ISBNs and the Future of the Book

May 19, 2010 6 comments

Today I’m pleased to have an interview with Andy Weissberg of R. R. Bowker. Bowker is a central player in the entire book industry due to the company’s status as the U.S. Agency of the International Standard Book Numbering Convention, as approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISBN was created in the early [...]

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Independence in The Era of the Aggregators

May 18, 2010 12 comments

Aggregators—people or companies who gather material into a whole for another purpose, or as representatives of all the parts of the whole—are in new prominence. Particularly with Apple’s iBookstore, a new retail location of incredible potential. But who will sell to the iBookstore? For independent publishers and small presses, Apple has anointed eight companies as [...]

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