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Yearly Archives: 2010
Festive Greetings from Publishing Technology and PCG – 17 Dec 2010
Festive Greetings and Best Wishes for 2011 from all of us at Publishing Technology and PCG! Click here to watch our animated eCard
The Future of Publishing: interview with Randy Petway
Randy Petway, EVP, Strategy and Business Development at Publishing Technology, discusses how developing technologies will affect the future of publishing. Topics covered include the schools and libraries of the future, the new opportunities created by current innovation, and how academic … Continue reading
Digital Reading Part 2: Scroll or swipe?
Not all that long ago, we had a debate in the office about a Flash application we’d seen that allowed the user to scroll through a brochure on their desktop as if it were a paper brochure. Leaving aside the … Continue reading
Digital Reading Part 1: Print versus online
As most academic journal access is now done online, rather than through print, I thought it worthwhile to consider how the experience of reading webpages and eBooks differs from print. The study I mentioned in my last post suggested that academics were … Continue reading
Review of 2010 and Trends for 2011
With December here and a new year just round the corner, Publishing Technology’s CEO, George Lossius, looks back over 2010 at the major developments that have affected the publishing industry – in both the trade and scholarly sectors. Click on the image below … Continue reading
PubSub no more?
Rumour has it that blog search subscription service PubSub may be closing down following a round of recent redundancies. Interestingly, it has raised a number of grousing voices in the blogosphere — see some of the trackbacks and comments to … Continue reading
George Lossius reviews Charleston Conference 2010
In a new video interview, George Lossius, CEO of Publishing Technology, reviews the discussions and developments from the Charleston Conference 2010. Topics covered in this interview include the growing importance of e-content to libraries, how libraries will use their budgets … Continue reading
Digital Discussion in the Middle East
Publishing Technology’s Jane Tappuni speaks at the Sharjah International Book Fair. The Sharjah International Book Fair Digital Panel was a lively event, with talks from Emma House (Publishers’ Association), who introduced the panel with an opening discussion on “Why Go … Continue reading
User Behaviour on e-Journal Sites
The Journal of Information Science has published some interesting research into academic usage of e-journals (Note: subscription required). A reasonable nutshell summary of it would be that journal reading is now overwhelmingly conducted online, with the focus being on dealing … Continue reading
eBooks and eCommerce
In July 2005, the usability specialist Jakob Nielsen wrote a deliberately contrarian article, advising that Amazon should not be considered a model for eCommerce site development and listing a number of aspects of the site that he considered to have especially poor … Continue reading
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