This article was originally published on our parent site for the book publishing industry, Publishing Trends. * * * The ongoing and increasingly heated debate over the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in digital publishing has recently received more press attention because of the EU ruling to charge VAT (value-added tax) on ebooks. For those in need of a reminder, Digital Rights Management refers to the protections that are in place on many copyrighted digital products like video games, smartphone apps and ebooks that make illegal downloading more difficult. In […]
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A DRM Primer for a VAT World
0 Comments | Category: Industry Insight | Tags: Amazon, Apollo 1201 Project, Apple, Ars Technica, Barnes & Noble, Cory Doctorow, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Rights Management, digital watermark, DRM, EPUB, Good e-Reader, Hachette UK, Isabelle Attard, Julie Crisp, Kindle, Macmillan, MOBI, Nintendo, Nook, PC Box, Reuters, Rightscorp, The Digital Reader, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tor, Ursula MacKenzie, VAT, Verso Books
Top 5 Publishing News Stories 4/14-4/18
Every week we recommend 5 publishing news stories that young book professionals should read to feel more connected to what’s going on in the industry. There are only 5, so even if you weren’t able to read a thing all week, these should help keep you in the know. Barnes & Noble Founder and Chairman of the Board, Len Riggio sells off 3.7 million shares of stock. Amazon announces it will retire Kindle Cloud Storage, moving users’ files to Amazon Cloud Drive. Verso uses innovative discounting strategies to drive a successful launch of their […]
0 Comments | Category: Book Biz Now | Tags: Amazon Cloud Drive, Barnes & Noble, Ecco, HarperCollins, Kindle, Lee Boudreaux, Len Riggio, Little Brown, Random House Children's Books, Riggio, Verso, Verso Books
The Joys of Being an Intern: A Roundtable Discussion Based on Ross Perlin’s Intern Nation
For anyone looking to start a career in publishing, the first step is getting a foot in the door. While entry level jobs usually represent the threshold, internships have almost become essential precursors to gain entry. Yet despite the importance of having an internship on your resume, internships can often be frustrating exercises, either consisting of coffee-fetching and paper-copying or exploiting young talent with high job demands and little to no pay. Internships have come under fire a lot in recent media, with some very prominent lawsuits even forcing major […]
1 Comment | Category: Industry Insight | Tags: Condé Nast, Disney, Eshani Agrawal, Hartlyn Kids Publishing, Indo-American Arts Council, Intern Nation, internships, Joy Harris Literary Agency, Kaplan Publishing, Kimberly Lew, lawsuit, Market Partners International, minimum wage, New York Times, NYU, publishing, Ross Perlin, Samantha Howard, Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, Verso Books, W. W. Norton & Company
