Posts tagged: digital publishing

Top 5 Trade Publishing Trends for 2013

Publishing Technology CEO George Lossius

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

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

The First 10 Years of Digital Publishing – Frankfurt Book Fair 2012

This week we’re reporting from Frankfurt Book Fair, where the largest single event in world publishing is well underway. Publishing Technology’s CEO, George Lossius, appeared in one of the 2012 fair’s opening events in a panel discussion alongside Bloomsbury executive … 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

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

Read How You Want wins Australia’s Digital Publishing Innovation Award

Australian Book Industry Awards 2012, 18th May 2012, Sydney Australia has traditionally been an innovator. We only have to look at the last 100 years and we see that there are those expected stereotypical inventions – a surf lifesaving reel … Continue reading

3 Predictions for the future of Chinese publishing

Chinese flag

Last week, London Book Fair threw a fascinating spotlight on the publishing industry in China, with China Market Focus bringing 150 Chinese publishers to the UK, many for the first time. The last time I blogged here on Publishing Technology … Continue reading

The Digital Gateway to China

Publishing in China

On 17th April, our CEO George Lossius announced the launch of the Digital Gateway project at London Book Fair. The project provides Chinese libraries with their most significant digital publishing platform to date. In this article (first published by Bookbrunch … Continue reading