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Five Contenders for the ‘Netflix for Books’ Crown Line Up
In just a few short years, subscription-based streaming services like Spotify and Netflix have gone from being tiny start-ups to companies that many believe hold the future of entertainment business in their hands. According to recent forecasts Netflix is on … Continue reading
Top 5 Trade Publishing Trends for 2013
There is every chance that, in the not too distant future, 2012 will be referred to as the start of a new era in trade publishing, when the industry fully accepted that it is no longer serving a market of … Continue reading
The Future of Publishing at the Executive Exchange
Last week, Publishing Technology hosted its annual Executive Exchange customer event in New York, where 20 publishers, industry consultants, press representatives and Publishing Technology executives gathered together to interact, network and exchange information on ways to “move your content forward … Continue reading
Four Top Tips for Businesses Expanding into China
China is certainly a mouth-watering prospect to the SME business. The engine house of the world with a population of 1.3 billion, China seems to offer an opportunity for everyone and a market for everything. Within publishing this is especially … Continue reading
The AAA on the future of Scholarly Publishing
These are interesting times for the academic and scholarly publishing markets. As their businesses increasingly migrate online, many publishers are presently exploring how this affects their business models. Much of this exploration is happening behind closed doors, but there is … Continue reading
Macmillan funds disruptive technology within the publishing industry
Macmillan has made an interesting move to hedge against disruptive technologies to cope with future proofing its business. It has opened a new division, New Ventures, that acts as an investor and innovation hot house focused on digital publishing but … Continue reading
This Week on the Semantic Web – 30 March 2012
This week on the Semantic Web Barak Obama backs “big data”, Wiki gets wiser and Kevin Lee delves deeper into Google’s semantic transformation. We also report on the launch of the Semantic University which aims to be the most accessible and complete place … Continue reading
This Week on the Semantic Web – 27 Jan 2012
We round up the last week of January continuing as we began, with a selection of the finest 2012 countdowns and predictions for the year ahead. This week Dion Hinchcliffe takes a retrospective look at Big Data, Steve Hamby gets sentimental about … Continue reading
10 Publishing Trends to Look Out for in 2012 – (Part 2)
By George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology Welcome back to our 10 Publishing Trends to Look Out for in 2012 countdown. In our previous post, we hailed some of the worlds fastest growing academic publishing markets, took a glimpse at … Continue reading
10 Publishing Trends to Look Out for in 2012 (Part 1)
By George Lossius, CEO of Publishing Technology As predicted by many, last year saw further dramatic changes in publishing across all sectors; trade, educational and academic. We saw more chain and independent book shops closing and consumers further embracing … Continue reading
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