Jason Pontin, editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review, last week posted “Why publishers…
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Permissions-Based Subscription Models
With a colleague, I’ve been working with a client who values its “net promoter score”…
On the Privatization of Censorship
A couple of days ago, Kat Meyer sent me a link to a Mashable post…
Techdirt Challenges Piracy Orthodoxy
You may be wondering why I didn’t jump all over the announcement that Macmillan was…
Publishing in the Big Data Era
‘Big data’, one of the themes at last week’s “Making Information Pay” conference, has been…
Interns Should Be Paid for Their Work
In the past, I’ve written (and ranted) about the use of unpaid interns in publishing….
The Risk of Sticking with What You Know
Last month Little Pickle Press, a start-up children’s book publisher based in California, asked me…
An Overview of a Metadata Assessment
I posted on Wednesday that, as part of the Book Industry Study Group’s “Making Information…
Making a Business Case for Context
Last week I was able to join a two-day Klopotek Publishers’ Forum, held for the…
Big Data, ‘Little’ Data and Metadata
Last month, I described a project we have been doing to examine how physical and…