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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
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
Are you for or against fixed book prices? Publishing Perspectives Survey
The recent end of the US Department of Justice’s anti-trust case against publishers and Apple has ensured that the issue of e-book price fixing and, by extension, the question of fixed book prices a regular spot in the headlines. The … 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
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Last week The Guardian published a very interesting article on e-book lending in the UK, Pay us for library ebook loans, say authors which highlighted how the growing use of e-books is shaking up some pretty fundamental assumptions about the … 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
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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