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Webcast Video: Youth & Creativity -- Emerging Trends in Self-Expression and Publishing

Mac Slocum
February 2, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Listen

Below you'll find the full recording from the TOC webcast, "Youth & Creativity: Emerging Trends in Self-Expression and Publishing," with Julie Baher and Bill Westerman.

Penguin 2.0 Mashes Up Essays and Short Texts

Mac Slocum
December 8, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2) | Listen

Penguin's new project -- dubbed "Penguin 2.0" -- incorporates elements of customization and remixing found in Web content. Jeff Gomez, Penguin's senior director of online consumer sales and marketing, discusses the program with the New York Observer:

... in 2009 the company will introduce a program that allows customers to choose from a variety of short stories, essays, and other short standalone texts and combine them into custom-made collections. Mr. Gomez said the program is part of Penguin's effort to incorporate elements of so called 'Web 2.0' into publishing without abandoning print ...

... He cautioned, however, that he "would never want to break apart an entire book" and thereby render the full-length volume obsolete the way iTunes has done to the 74-minute LP.

Related Stories:

• Publishers Weekly: "Penguin Launches Penguin 2.0, iPhone App; Stanza Deal with Random House"
• Publishing Lessons from Web 2.0 Expo
• To Chunk or Not To Chunk?
• Commentary on Penguin's Missed Ebook Opportunity
• Tim O'Reilly: "What Is Web 2.0?"

Some Quotables from OnCopyright 2008

Andrew Savikas
May 8, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1) | Listen

I spent last Thursday at Copyright Clearance Center's OnCopyright 2008, and came away with some great lines from the panelists well worth sharing here.

On a meta-level, one of the recurring themes on the panels was the value of using the work of others as a starting point for creative experimentation, as in a pastiche. So it was fitting to learn from the organizers that they found inspiration at the February TOC Conference, both in terms of speakers and in staging. (The panel title "Technology: Confronting the Tools of Disruption" was another nice nod.)

I've enclosed direct quotes in quotation marks -- the remainder is generally faithful paraphrasing, but may suffer from some transcription abbreviation.

Chris Sprigman:

• "Copyright law is not in place to protect business models, it's in place to protect creativity."
• Who controls copyright law? According to a 5th-grade civics class: Congress. According to a cynic: People who care enough to spend money to get Congress to do what they want.
• Intellectual property has nothing to do with what craigslist does, and craigslist has significantly diminished newspapers' ability to create a return on what they do.