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Cards are exchanged, and sometimes hugs; goodbyes are said and promises of future conversations are made. It's the last day of Yale Publishing Course and we're ready to all get out there and implement all the things we've learned.

As we wrap up our week here, it's appropriate that we're looking into the future. It's been a wild couple of years; and if we had all gone to sleep two years ago and woken up today we wouldn't recognize the scene. Brian Napack of Macmillan asks us to co

We're taking it up a notch at Yale Publishing Course with a day dedicated to creativity and innovation. No idea too strange, we're all friends now. And how can the experience of students from all over the world serve to cross pollinate our business?

Speaking of cross pollination, Professor Olav Sorenson of Yale School of Management brings in some insights from the film and music business to spur ideas and dialog. Are we still making most of our money from print because print is s

At Yale Publishing Course we're playing a game called "Would You Publish This Book?" A book from a hacker into government secrets, a book covering the making of a porn movie, an incendiary rant from a hate-monger: what are the decisions that drive publishing? Martin Levin's presentation elicits strong opinions and lively discussion that spills over into the corridors and dining room; he's really touched on some deep level the passions that have drawn people into this business and to the cou

The hot news this afternoon from Yale Publishing Course is...hot news. In fact, the misappropriation of hot news.

John Hart of Dow Lohnes PLLC walks us through the legal history which attempted to protect the publishers that spent money to collect the facts which create news--so necessary, we believe as a democracy, for an informed public. How to protect that content in the age of aggregators, and are the companies going to court to protect it asking the right question? Or should

Global village aside, for a lot of publishers it just doesn't seem worth it to publish overseas. The costs, the logistics, the ins, the outs..

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But consider China and India, the growth engines of the world with a 10% growth per year. With multi-trillion dollar economies, they are growing at such a rate that they add an economy the size of the UK's every five years. China is the third largest consumer of luxury goods in the world, after the US and Japan, and India, wit