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May 24, 2016 at 2:12 pm
This year I was asked to moderate a panel for Society Day at the annual STM Association conference. We put together a highly informative panel: Angela Cochran, Journal Director for the American Society of Civil Engineers; Edith Holmes, Executive Director, JOSPT (Journal of Orthopaedics and Sports Physical Therapy); and David Gammel, Executive Director, Entomological Society…
May 11, 2016 at 2:24 pm
CHICAGO — May 10, 2016 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) announced today mutual interest in combining their respective organizations to more quickly advance publishing technologies on the Open Web Platform. Tim Berners-Lee, Web Inventor and W3C Director, and Bill McCoy, IDPF Executive Director, unveiled the plans…
February 24, 2016 at 1:59 pm
WASHINGTON — February 22, 2016 — The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced the creation of a Center for Innovation & Digital Learning, an initiative designed to promote new ideas in the digital learning space and to support the development of next-generation educational technologies. “Learning materials are no longer solely the printed textbooks of…
January 29, 2016 at 3:26 pm
This week the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released Q3 revenue numbers from more than 1,200 trade, K-12, higher education, university press, and professional publishers. The data spans January to September of 2015, and compared to the same period in 2014, publishers’ net revenue declined 2% from $12.1 billion to $11.9 billion. Driving much of…
January 18, 2016 at 2:33 pm
The American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Boston, has just closed with some impressive numbers to report. Gary Price at Library Journal reports that a total 11,716 people attended the five-day event—librarians, library workers and supporters including 3,622 exhibitors. This makes the 2016 event some 1,000 people larger than last year’s Chicago staging of…
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