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Posts tagged: publishers
Breaking down boardroom barriers: one woman’s tales from the top
Jane Tappuni was recently appointed to Publishing Technology’s executive board. In this article, which first appeared in The Guardian on 2 May she reflects on her career, and discusses the challenges women face when they want to progress at work. … Continue reading
3 Predictions for the future of Chinese publishing
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
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
Do 50% of publishers really not care about sharing?
Unless you’ve been living on a desert island for the past five years, it can’t have escaped your notice that social media is extremely big business. Facebook is on track for gaining a billion members and launching one of the … Continue reading
3 Reasons to be Cheerful about Publishing in India
As the saying goes, when one door closes another door opens. Here in the west, with many of our major economies undergoing prolonged uncertainty or turbulence, it’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of publishing. Yet in developing markets … Continue reading
Where next for intermediaries – presentation to ASA
Last week Emilie Delquie of our sister company, PCG, presented at the ASA Conference on what she believed were the challenges facing publishers, libraries and intermediaries in the post-digital age. Using the conference’s tagline The Best Way To Predict The … Continue reading
In Defence of Trade Publishing
Publishing as collaboration, spam e-books and the publisher as risk taker I’ve read quite a few articles recently which have sought to call time on trade publishing. Many of them, written by evangelists for the self-publishing movement, argue from the … Continue reading
ALPSP Digital Strategy Seminar Presentations
On 9th Febuary 2012, scholarly publishing professionals from across the UK convened in central London for an ALPSP event exploring how they could successfully implement digital publishing strategies. The event was hosted by Publishing Technology’s Louise Russell, and featured a … Continue reading
Two ways scholarly publishers can make PDA work
I’ve been following the comment thread on this fascinating post on Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) on Scholarly Kitchen. It raises some really interesting arguments that I’d like to explore about how college librarians here in the US and scholarly publishers … Continue reading
The new breed of transmedia companies – and 6 factors for success
One of the things we do at Publishing Technology is help publishers realize the transition from print being based businesses to media businesses. Many book publishers are most of the way there, having made the leap from viewing themselves as … Continue reading
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