Enjoy our article on the front page of today’s Publishing Perspectives at http://publishingperspectives.com/2012/12/best-advice-for-publishing-start-ups-invest-in-systems/
The future wasn’t meant to look like this. According to e-book evangelists, freeing the book from its paper format was going to herald a new era of reading. Physical book sales would wither and e-book sales soar as a new generation of reader, converted by the convenience of digital reading, thumbed through Twilight on their […]
The founder of the Jesuit movement, St Ignatius de Loyola, is principally famous nowadays for his maxim on the formative power of education “give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man”. Well, it seems that Jeff Bezos has taken the saint at his word with Amazon’s latest announcement. […]
Another week, another publishing takeover. Yesterday McGraw Hill announced that it was offloading its education publishing business, though this time not to another publisher. The Private equity arm of investment firm Apollo Global Management will take control of the textbook publisher, which has undershot its revenue targets in 7 of the last 8 quarters and […]
A few months ago I was invited to speak on BBC Radio 4’s flagship consumer affairs show, You and Yours, alongside Professor Nigel Shadbolt, to discuss the government’s Midata scheme proposals The initiative is gaining significant momentum as consumer affairs minister, Jo Swinson, waded in on the debate by threatening to take legal action against […]
The news is full of stories about mergers and acquisitions at the moment. The ‘Random Penguin’ merger has been followed in the publishing market by speculation that Harper Collins is in talks to buy Simon & Schuster. Elsewhere the commentariat of the publishing world are debating whether a new era of industry consolidation will be […]
To celebrate the attainment of IBM Business Analytics advanced business partner status along with achieving many and varied Cognos/Big Data sales and technical certifications, Influential are pleased to offer a number of attractive financing options for all new Cognos licences acquired for the remainder of 2012 All credit applications are processed within 15 minutes via […]
Why publishing start-ups should invest in their systems to guarantee long-term success 2012 may well go down in the publishing annals as the year of the start-up. Barely a week passes without another ingenious method of supplying consumers with content. The force of innovation, creativity and above all optimism, is a breath of fresh air […]
Pew Research Center has just released a new research study – Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits. It provides a fascinating look at the behaviours of young adults and their attitudes towards reading and libraries. On the face of it, this research may seem to be of little relevance to the UK publishing market, but […]
See our article in Publishing Perspectives about the dangers of running the eBook business like a commodity, entitled “Have we already reached Peak E-book?”, at http://publishingperspectives.com/2012/10/have-we-already-reached-peak-e-book/