For more than a decade, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has hosted an annual…
Publishing Innovation
Perspectives On The Road Ahead For Publishers (And Publishing)
[The 2015 Publishers Forum featured four conference themes – strategy and goals, the role of information…
Forget Your Business Model. Meet Readers’ Needs.
A post by Scott Aughtmon, “5 Content Domination Lessons From A Furniture Maker Turned Publisher”,…
How A Database Of Publishing Startups Signals The New Competition
A database of publishing startups shows that the average launch is valued at $3.6 million….
You’ll Never Believe Where He Started: A Top Publisher Talks About His First Job
Mike Dukmejian is Group Publisher at Bloomberg Media and Publisher of Bloomberg Markets, an award-winning publication serving…
How To Make Digital Content Subscriptions ‘Worth It’
Subscription models are an opportunity to grow overall demand for content. In practice, these new models can provide an attractive gateway to testing different prices and offers. But before publishers can make digital content subscriptions ‘worth it’, they’ll need to see that the digital rights management (DRM) typically applied to “sold” books represents an unwelcome competitor. Growing Demand By selling components or charging
Is it time to start your own content-driven business?
People with good ideas already have access to the largest self-assembled audiences in the history…
Context First – A 2014 Revival
Four years ago last week, I presented “A Unified Field Theory of Publishing”, the first…
Why Publishers Should Listen to Clay Shirky
Toward the end of last week, Clay Shirky posted “Amazon, Publishers, and Readers“, an essay…
July 2014 Must-Read Content
The Pew Research Center has catalogued how many web pages we may look at in…