Toward the end of 2011, I wrote a post about “the new choke points“. It…
Author: Brian O'Leary
Revisiting “A Netflix for X”
Writing at Folio:, Bill Mickey reports that Next Issue Media (NIM) has announced an “all…
If Only We Could Limit All of Our Editions
On March 13, 2012, Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that it would no longer print its 32-volume encyclopedia,…
Figuring Out What Consumers Will Pay For
In the current issue of Adweek, Lucia Moses describes Bloomberg LP and Thomson Reuters as…
Two-Track Strategies on Lawyers and Libraries
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the North Atlantic Treated Organization (NATO) pursued a…
Libraries: Publishing’s First and Best Defense Against Piracy
At yesterday’s On Copyright 2012, sponsored by the Copyright Clearance Center, competing claims about book…
Advancing the Creative Economy
Today, the Copyright Clearance Center is hosting On Copyright 2012, whose theme this year is…
Empowering Authors with Marketing and Sales Data
Earlier this month, Dennis Abrams of Publishing Perspectives posted a profile of previewed the talk she…
Tapping into Markets that Don’t Yet Exist
Toward the end of “Context first”, I listed four implications of content abundance for publishers….
Effective Experience Trumps Beautiful Design
At Mashable, Lauren Indvik wrote a really perceptive review of a wholly predictable problem: “Zeke…