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  Hachette Digital’s Maja Thomas on Digital Revenue, Bookish and the Leaked Manifesto

  2252 readersDigital Book world has an interesting interview with Maja Thomas, senior VP of Hachette Digital and head of strategy at Bookish.  Here is one of the many questions he asked her: Jeremy Greenfield: In 2011, Hachette is expected to derive 20% of its revenues from digital. How will the company accomplish this? What will this number

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  Hachette Digital’s Maja Thomas on Digital Revenue, Bookish and the Leaked Manifesto

  1404 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid In 2008, digital revenues at New York-based book publisher Hachette represented about 1% of the total for the company. This year, about 20% of Hachette’s revenue will come from digital. Managing this explosive growth is Maja Thomas, senior vice president of Hachette Digital. Thomas is responsible for Hachette’s

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  Hachette Ranked No. 1 Ebook Publisher in 2013 So Far

  77 readersIn the first quarter of 2013, Hachette managed to have 88 titles on the DBW Ebook Best-Seller list – that’s about 27% of all ebooks to hit the list.   When it comes to generating best-selling ebooks in 2013, Hachette’s nearest competition comes from the Random-Penguin duo and then, notably, from self-published authors.   That

• Hachette Poaches Bloomsbury’s Schnittman for Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Role

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  Billboard’s former executive editor, Robert Levine, speaks on copyright

  526 readersLooks interesting.  From Beyond the Book: At the recent OnCopyright 2012 conference, Robert Levine explained for the audience in a keynote speech how the commonly used language of copyright shapes the debate and makes for confusion on the fundamentals “I don’t think copyright infringement is stealing,” he told the Columbia Law School audience. “The idea that this is

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  What the Creative Rights Caucus Means for App Developers

  180 readersAt the Digital Hollywood conference in Los Angeles last week, the nonprofit Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)  held a panel discussion about “Copyright, Content & Congress.” Amelia Wang, the chief of staff for U.S. Representative Judy Chu, talked about the Creative Rights Caucus initiative that Congresswoman Chu helped create. CCC’s Chris Kenneally asked how the caucus would help creators, and received an app-specific

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  AcademicPub to create digital textbooks built by faculty

  2005 readersFrom Campus Technology: A company with technology for creating digital-to-print books is getting into the textbook market. AcademicPub, a division of SharedBook, has introduced a service that enables instructors to create digital and print texts by compiling materials from multiple sources: copyrighted works, faculty-created material, and resources the company has in its own library. The service also

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  Copyright Clearance Center interviews Mark Coker of Smashwords

  941 readers The Copyright Clearance Center’s “Beyond the Book” podcast features an interview with CEO and founder of Smashwords, Mark Coker. In the interview, Coker discusses how self-publishing has become a first option for many authors because of the economic incentive, the immediacy and the control of distribution. He explains how the future of traditional print publishing

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  Podcast about 2012 Publishing Innovation Awards

  1595 readers From the press release: Copyright Clearance Center’s new “Beyond the Book” podcast, features an interview with Matt Mullin from Digital Book World and Anne Kostick from Foxpath IND. The podcast discusses how entrants in the 2012 Publishing Innovation Awards, which identifies the best digital publications, including ebooks, enhanced ebooks, and book apps,