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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
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
How well do you know your readers?—Impact of information consumption habits on product development choices
Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner recently released their report: “How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals”, the output of an extensive survey of 19,000 journal readers. This report updates their research from 2005 and 2008 and digs into user behaviour … 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
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
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
The Library of the Future is Mobile
After attending the recent MobileTechnology Executive briefing run by the Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) I’ve become really excited by the opportunities that developments in mobile technology are presenting to academic publishers, librarians and end users. This … Continue reading
UK students lead the world in digital reading
The most surprising thing we learned in the past week is that university students in the UK are world leaders when it comes to digital reading. In a global study of more than 6,300 students conducted by ebrary, 58% of … Continue reading
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