How publishers are re-imagining the Textbook in 2013
In our CEO George Lossius’s Top 5 trends for academic publishing in 2013, he predicted a shake-up of the textbooks market. Less than a month into the new year and we’re already seeing some developments in the electronic textbook and … 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
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
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
Will Blog for Tenure – The Importance of Blogging to the Scholarly Record
We all know that blogs are increasingly important to academic journals, as we recently explored how web-savvy publishers were using social media as a means of attracting and engaging new readers. But how important is blogging to academic researchers themselves? … Continue reading
5 Top Tips for doing business with the BRICs
The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations pose something of a quandary to business owners today. Whilst these growing economies are invariably touted as a real opportunity for British business, they also pose serious linguistic, geographical and cultural barriers … 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
