Online giant operates a rapacious near monopoly, the Observer columnist and Peep Show star tells Booksellers conferencePeep Show star David Mitchell blasted the monopolistic, cynical and frankly life-crushing way that Amazon operates to a roomful of booksellers.The comedian was giving the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spain's Pentian crowdfunding platform for books offers a new business model: paying 50% of profits from book sales to backers of the book and 40% to the author. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Inkling, a multimedia publishing platform, has laid off about 25% of its workforce after refocusing its business model from consumer ebook sales to a business enterprise model. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
How positioning your business model around your most engaged customers will reap beaucoup returns.As a long-time comic book artist, fan, and professional, I have experienced firsthand how comics collectors travelled long distances to meet up with others who shared these passions. In the 1990s,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Coker of Smashwords, which recently inked a major content deal with Scribd, weighs in on how the all-you-can-read model changes the way we read, how authors make creative choices, and how everyone gets paid.Is a "Netflix for ebooks" nearing viability? Yesterday, Smashwords, the largest... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Its second bankruptcy now behind it, RDA Holding Co. is entering a new phase. CEO Robert Guth is putting his stamp on the company's flagship brand, Reader's Digest, with a redesign and changes to the business model. The new magazine—which went on sale last week—has updated its logo, invested $1... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
BlackBerry has abandoned plans to sell itself and has instead found about $1 billion in new funds that it will use to try to turn its business around. The company is also planning far–reaching changes to management and will remove both its CEO Thorsten Heins and some directors. Heins is replaced... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Magazine publishers have found new fans for their content on tablets and e-readers, but will they ever be able to get advertisers to give them the same commitment? In the three years since consumers got their hands on Apple’s first iPads, magazines have been preparing their content for the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The digital transformation of publishing—kicked into high gear by devices like the iPad, the Kindle, and the Nook—is one of the top business stories of the turn of the millennium. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
As print continues to decline and digital often struggles to live up to the hype, events are offering higher profits than print and, for many publishers, far higher revenues than digital. Luxury consumer magazine and media company Dwell, however, is leveraging all of these different groups and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
In early summer 2011, Nature Publishing Group's Educational branch debuted its "born digital" textbook Principles of Biology, which would cost the student only $49 and contribute to the movement to democratize higher education with technology. Nature's approach was so different that it basically... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ozzie Winner: Best Redesign, Consumer For 32 years, Working Mother has served as a guide for an audience walking the personal and professional line. In that time, it has seen its readership, and its business model, evolve. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the e-commerce craze gets hotter, publishers looking to get into the game are faced with many questions. Some of these include how the business model of the e-commerce operation will operate; how it integrates seamlessly into editorial while avoiding advertising influence; and perhaps most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
With print media in decline, magazine companies are working feverishly to get a foothold in TV and video. Two that have been especially aggressive on this front are Condé Nast, which just started an entertainment division and hired cable vet Dawn Ostroff to run it; and Hearst Corp., which... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Glam Media has just acquired Ning, the build-your-own-social-network startup co-founded by Netscape creator Marc Andreessen. Glam is best known for building Web properties and an ad network targeting women, and it says it now reaches more than 200 million monthly users. Last month, it announced... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Tim Conneally, Betanews The business model behind textbooks is completely out of step with what the market today wants, according to the head of Nature Publishing's digital textbook initiatives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 17/05/2011 - 08:29 There are opportunities for genuine growth and a renewed vitality in bricks and mortar bookselling if the business model is reinvented, Oren Teicher, c.e.o. of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), told the Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a white paper titled The Media Company of the Future: The Revolution Goes On, consulting firm AMR International Consulting Inc. outlines the steps it says traditional companies must take to incorporate technological advances into their business model and stay competitive against New world... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]