Also at the Miami Book Fair on Sunday, November 15, Kenneally interviews NPR’s Bob Garfield on his latest book, The Chaos Scenario, describing the business dilemma confronting all forms of advertising-supported media, from newspapers to broadcast TV. “We’re not at the beginning of the collapse, we’re in sort of the middle of the collapse,” he says.

Starting with two shelves and two computers, they and others are working together to supply that remote library with online resources, and to raise funds to bring Kizza to New Orleans for the 2010 SLA conference. “It will be a dream-come-true for Stephen to go to the conference, visit some international libraries and meet with international colleagues,” Heye tells Chris Kenneally.

For more information about Dennie Heye and Stephen Kizza, please download their bios (PDF). Email us at Beyond the Book if you want to help!

If you are in the Washington metro area, take advantage of this great opportunity. You must register online to attend (the event last year SOLD OUT!). For more information about this event, download this pdf.

Earlier this year, CCC joined ASPP and PACA to present Nancy Wolff, of counsel to PACA and an expert in the area of image licensing and the law. In this pre-program interview with Chris Kenneally, Wolff examines actual case studies on the complexities of copyright.

A week ago, Chris Kenneally caught up with Allen in Oslo where both attended the annual IFRRO meeting that also marked the organization’s 25th anniversary. Allen provided the latest news on developments in the Google Book Settlement and admitted he finds himself “spokesman for an industry that used to be mature, but is no longer. Digital transforms everything and so every publishing company is trying to find new business models.”

“There is a yin and yang between my creative and professional sides,” Anderson admits. “I’m always dabbling with both areas of pursuit.” The emotional and imaginative act of writing the novels, he says, has reminded the usually-factually-based Anderson of a sometimes overlooked aspect to his day job. “Business is about relationships as much as it’s about products and services, and relationships inevitably have an emotional aspect to them.”

The Green Monster Trailer:

Newly-formed Bookstofilm.tv knows what Hollywood wants because it lives there. As company founder Rocky Lang explains, “in today’s post-MTV generation, people are looking for immediate gratification, [something] that stimulates their fantasies of the characters and the development of the project.”

Hot business tips were served, too: “I’m a huge fan of subscription models and think they’ve been untested in trade book publishing. Many small presses are starting to see subscriptions as a lifeline because their whole audience is very small, and oftentimes, it’s the same customer or likely to be the same customer more than once. So if they can get buy-in from that customer, they can support a whole season. They can support a whole list. They can plan a minimum print run that’s sustainable for their activity.”

The pair offers valuable insights on what to at the world’s largest publishing event. Tip: Wear comfortable shoes!

Featured speakers include “Media Nation” blogger Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University; Zach Seward of the Nieman Journalism Lab; and Rob Watson of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Tickets for the full weekend (including lunch, Sat.) are $50; $30 students/low-income. $10 discount for members of the NWU and co-sponsoring organizations (PEN New England, Grub Street, Open Media Boston, Organizers’ Collaborative, & John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute at Northeastern University).

This summer, media guru, NPR personality, and Advertising Age critic Bob Garfield told Chris Kenneally why he had to invent a publishing company after some 50 publishers declined to put out his latest book, The Chaos Scenario, according to the principles of “Listenomics” – “not talking to the crowd from atop the mount, but by dealing with [the] audience as participants, stakeholders, fellow travelers.”

“Basically, publishing hasn’t changed dramatically in the last century,” Garfield explains, “and what I’m proposing is a dramatic change, and who doesn’t resist dramatic change?” For most of the book, Garfield focuses his attention on the “chaos scenario” that he sees now engulfing all forms of advertising-supported media, from newspapers to broadcast TV.

“We’re not at the beginning of the collapse, we’re in sort of the middle of the collapse,” he says.

The “old” form of the poster, Wert says, was reinvigorated not only by enthusiasm for the candidate but also by online technologies that help to create and share art in ways not possible before. Still, some things never change for an indefatigable collector: “The artists were putting them up, and I was right behind them, taking them down.”

A selection of notable posters from the book includes work by Ray Noland, Matt Dye, and The Date Farmers.

Renowned copyright lawyer and policy attorney Lois Wasoff returns to Copyright Clearance Center to sort out in clear and concise terms the complex issues involved in this historic case.

Co-author of the new Facebook Marketing for Dummies, Dunay even sees Facebook moving beyond traditional online giants like Google and other search engines. “Who cares what an anonymous person says about a movie that you can dig up on Google? I want to know what my friend said about it.” He tells Chris Kenneally that Facebook isn’t just a community, it’s a marketplace.

For more on this subject, listen to TAA Executive Director Richard Hull discuss textbook costs on radio station WHYY in Philadelphia, PA. Download MP3 here.

Copyright Clearance Center knows that protecting and managing your copyright is fundamental to your success, and this session will give you essential copyright concepts in easy-to-digest language. The one-hour presentation incorporates analysis of real-world scenarios, as well as Q&A. As technology changes the way everyone creates, sells and consumes content, understanding copyright law is more important than ever. Registration is easy. We look forward to having you join us.

Questions? Email education@copyright.com or check out this one-page rundown (PDF) of CCC’s Education Services.

Later this week, Blossom heads to Oxford for appearance as a keynote speaker at the 2009 ALPSP International Conference which will take place from 9-11 September 2009 at the Oxford Belfry Hotel and Conference Centre. Later this month, he addresses a youth conference in Gijón,Spain.

Michael Healy, who is currently executive director of the non-profit Book Industry Study Group (BISG), spoke for the first time about his work in an exclusive interview at the offices of Copyright Clearance Center. He cited as benefits of participating in the settlement for US authors and publishers,”an unprecedented degree of control to authors, publishers and other rightsholders on how their copyrights are exploited and distributed in this new digital world.”

For more information, download this news article (PDF) and the GBS Benefits Outline (PDF).

“Explaining the settlement agreement, and indeed, explaining the lawsuit that the agreement grew out of, has been virtually a full-time job,” he admits.

SharedBook has created
a community platform to facilitate
an independent discussion of the
proposed Google Books Settlement.