Rebecca Smart

Here’s an interesting opinion post on The Bookseller by Rebecca Smart, CEO of the Osprey Group. Smart holds that, while DRM is damaging to the relationship between consumers on the one side and authors and publishers on the other, continuing to paint it as the source of Amazon’s dominance and, hence, a threat to the [...]

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The merger of Penguin and Random House is expected to close in July, creating—with sales of £2.5bn—the largest trade publishing business ever. Ahead of any announcements about its forthcoming plans, The Bookseller asked a range of industry insiders what the new management team should do:

Dennis Johnson, publisher and co-founder, Melville House

If I were the CEO of Random Penguins, I would...
1. Join those b******* at Apple in standing up to the American government's persecution of the publishing industry, and to its protection of Amazon's monopoly.

Reprinted from the Open Rights Group ORGZine under a Creative Commons license (blockquotes omitted): Bring Back the Magic Osprey, a UK-based publishing company, are selling their military history books DRM-free. This move to go against the grain of the publishing industry is explained by Rebecca Smart, CEO of the Osprey Group, in an informative and [...]