Investors can offer (and obtain) significant value by identifying promising solutions and funding them through…
Author: Brian O'Leary
Where investors can make a difference for publishing startups
Publishing startups can die on the vine looking for enough funding to prove out a…
What Top-Line Numbers Don’t Reveal
Annual assessments of the book publishing business usually focus on top-line results: how total revenue compares…
Time to Revise Your Publishing Workflow? 6 Warning Signs it Won’t Scale
Why do digital media startups attract investor capital at a time when traditional publishers are…
3 strategies for publishing content across social-media platforms
Whether you’re marketing a product, a service or your own ideas, there are three strategies you…
How to capitalize on the growing value of user-generated content
A recent article in Ad Age illustrates the growing value of user-generated content and the…
Context First – A 2014 Revival
Four years ago last week, I presented “A Unified Field Theory of Publishing”, the first…
Raise The Bar On Your Responsiveness: Examine Your Workflow
Pressures on revenues and margins have made many publishers ask themselves if their content workflows…
Is Service Delivery The Future Of Education Publishing?
Last week, I briefed a visiting delegation of Chinese publishers on recent U.S. trends in…
Expanding Our Efforts: A New Platform To Prompt Publishing Conversations
Welcome to our update of the Magellan Media website! We’re making a number of changes…