It has been a busy week for the debate about free content. On Monday, Bloggasm…
Author: Brian O'Leary
Pontin’s prescription
A week ago, Technology Review editor Jason Pontin posted a comprehensive critique of the current…
Do the right(s) thing
A few weeks ago my colleague Mike Shatzkin talked about publishing as a rights business…
Just enough of a good thing
Dave Kellogg, Mark Logic’s CEO, recently reviewed a part of the StartWithXML research report. The…
Curation: the business case
Adam Hodgkin tweeted a link to Neil Schlager’s post about the challenges reference publishers face…
Establishing better practice
With the ad market in free-fall, publishers often judge their success against broad market measures….
Early bird, no worm
Two months ago, the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) canceled its annual conference and announced…
Think “read on demand”
The Telegraph just published an article on Britain’s first “book vending machine“, their moniker for…
Curation nation
For a while I’ve been wrestling with the simple question, “How does anyone manage to…
Two angles, one message
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve encouraged associations to take heed from successful business-to-business…