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Publishers’ commitment to online communities set to double by 2015
For some years we’ve been observing an upward trend in trade and academic publishers’ use of online communities as methods of marketing and selling their content to consumers. On both sides of the Atlantic this trend seemed to have been … Continue reading
What does the journal article of the future look like?
Last week we blogged about how publishers are beginning to re-engineer the textbook. In this blog we looked at how these publishers are using developments in publishing technology to turn the process of learning something from a book into a … Continue reading
Top 5 Academic Publishing Trends to look out for in 2013
2012 has certainly been an eventful, some would even say turbulent, year in the unpredictable world of academic publishing. A crescendo of calls for a complete re-imagination of traditional pay-for-access models, the ‘Academic Spring’ campaign, the high profile Cost of … 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
Consumerization, Gamification and 21st Century Skills – A vision of the future of Education
This guest blog post is by David Langridge, Senior Director Partner Development at Microsoft Education, who presented at last week’s Publishers’ Association Annual Conference on technology in education. Three key trends are currently defining the future of education. Here at … Continue reading
Why Publishers should embrace the B2B2C Marketplace
When the discovery of books migrates from physical browsing to web recommendations to social networks, as Facebook reader app Riffle is pioneering in the model of Pinterest or Spotify, an interesting change occurs in the publishing information supply chain. Publishers … Continue reading
The future of content delivery in Publishing
A minute is a long time on the internet – Google processes approximately two million searches and around 571 websites are launched. It is estimated that in 2011 there were around 555 million websites, more than doubling in size from … Continue reading
An Update on Top 10 Publishing Trends for 2012
At the beginning of this year we looked at the 10 key trends which we believed would define publishing in 2012 and beyond. In this post, we take another look at these predictions as 2012 enters its late stages, and … Continue reading
An App Happy Future for Academic Publishing?
To date, much of the discussion surrounding the future of academic publishing has focused on how publishers can repackage the idea of the journal for the post-digital world. But what if instead of paying for a subscription to a journal … Continue reading
ALPSP Usage Generation Seminar
Usage generation is one of the main focuses of many publishers to increase the value of their brands and ensure renewal of subscriptions. Looking at innovative ways to do this is key to generation of a continuing upward trend. ALPSP (the … Continue reading
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