Publishing Perspectives

BooXtream on "Social DRM" as a Better Option for E-books To DRM or not to DRM? Holland's BooXtream advocates a third way: digital watermarking, or social DRM, which lets publishers to track a file back to a buyer. Read more »
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Why the E-book DRM Debate is Like Censorship in China Statements by the UK Publishers Association on DRM have an eerie echo of those made about censorship in China, where policing the mainstream is paramount. Read more »
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Should You Expose All Your Book’s Content to Search Engines? Craig Mod has made all the content in his book Art Space Tokyo available to search engines, arguing that this is likely to spur sales. Read more »	Video Interview with Rebecca Smart, CEO, Osprey Group Osprey Group CEO Rebecca Smart offers a preview of her talk on vertical publishing which she will deliver at this year's Publishers Launch Frankfurt conference. Read more »
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Spain’s Got a Digital Piracy Problem, says El País Journalist In 2011, 49% of e-book content online in Spain was distributed without the proper copyright holders’ permission, says El Pais’ Antonio Fraguas Garrido. Read more »