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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
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
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
Publishing: It’s all about the Metadata
We all know good metadata is important on the web but the definition of metadata is confusing and off putting; it’s basically data about data or put simply more information about existing information. I’ve been thinking about metadata and its … 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
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
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