The tech pioneer, CEO of publishing company O’Reilly Media, says his industry will fail unless the web giants start putting consumers ahead of shareholdersTim O’Reilly believes we need to have a reset. This means more coming from him than it does from most people. The 63-year-old CEO, born in Ireland and raised in San Francisco, is one of the most influential pioneers and thinkers of the internet age. His publishing company, O’Reilly Media, began producing computer manuals in the late 1970s and he has been early to spot many influential tech trends ever since: open-source software, web 2.0, wifi, the maker movement and big data among them.His new book, WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, looks at work and how jobs will change in a world shaped by technology. It is sometimes hard not to be pessimistic about what’s coming over the hill, but he is convinced that our destiny remains in human hands. Related: Robots 'could take 4m UK private sector jobs within 10 years' Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity, not at the end Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the forthcoming book Becoming Steve Jobs, we learn just how close Tim Cook and Steve Jobs really were. Here, an exclusive excerpt: Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli and co-author Brent Schlender's new book, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution Of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brands will still operate as two distinct entities. The post People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly Begin Merging Staffs appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Getting control of distribution, leveraging your strengths and keeping your team on target. The post 6 Things B2B Publishers Should Worry About In 2015 (Part 2) appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s and Foyles are both offering discounts to people who pre-order Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann). Go Set a Watchman, written by Lee before her bestselling novel To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring some of the same characters, will be released on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author is on tour following the release of his 18th book, 'Shark Skin Suite,' the latest in his comic series featuring the fictional Florida serial killer Serge Storms. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Securing recurring revenue, adjusting to a mobile audience and getting to know programatic. The post 6 Things B2B Publishers Should Worry About In 2015 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Atlantic Media introduced business-news publication Quartz in September 2012, it spent about $10 million on the launch, according to people familiar with the matter. That's a far cry from the more than $100 million Cond Nast dropped in 2007 rolling out its glossy business magazine,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a cost-cutting move, Randall-Reilly, a B2B publisher with footholds in several markets, is merging two of its brands and going digital-only with another. Road building magazine, Better Roads, will fold as a standalone title and become part of Equip Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Native advertising became a full-blown phenomenon in online publishing in 2014. Here's what we learned about it this year. The post 5 things we learned about native ads in 2014 appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You send a command from your smartphone and your house automatically decorates itself with a holographic Christmas tree complete with decorations and a suitably conifer-like smell. Sound like science fiction? Maybe, but this is among the predictions by the authors of a new book that looks at how... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A large magazine publisher is trying to stay on the digital cutting edge. On Tuesday, Time Inc. announced that it would accept payments in Bitcoin for certain subscriptions. Like many companies that have started accepting Bitcoin, Time Inc. ha ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bot fraud, digital advertising's albatross, will suck $6.3 billion from the industry next year, according to a much anticipated report highlighting the threat from the Association of National Advertisers and WhiteOps. Here is the scope of the problem, per analysts at SunTrust Robinson Humphreys:... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has revealed the look for the relaunch of its Thorsons mind, body and spirit list, 85 years after its creation. Thorsons will lead the relaunch with the reissue of eight classic titles in new livery (each priced at £12.99). The titles include iconic relationship book Men are From... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster had a busy few days last week: the two companies announced their quarterly earnings, received words of encouragement from their corporate owners, and made changes in their Canadian operations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dividing the digital publishing industry into legacy and new media falsely undermines newspapers capacity for innovation Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Magazine has just come out with an in-depth profile of the intensely private Honolulu resident Pierre Omidyar. It quickly gets beyond the basics—"the programmer who created eBay, is one of America's richest men, a 47-year-old philanthropist intent on giving away the fortune he made when... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Yancey’s books have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and include the 1997 bestseller as 'What’s So Amazing About Grace?' His new book continues Yancey's study of that favorite topic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday published a moving essay in Bloomberg Businessweek in which he publicly announced for the first time that he is gay. Cook is the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly come out.Cook is famously private and said he doesn’t think of himself as an activist,... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay."In an op-ed published Thursday in Bloomberg Businessweek, Apple CEO Tim Cook, the most powerful man in technology, wrote the following:Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adobe Systems said Thursday it is now encrypting data it collects about certain ebooks after facing criticism earlier this month for not protecting the data.The Digital Reader blog reported on Oct. 6 that Adobe’s Digital Editions 4 software, used for downloading and reading ebooks, sent detailed... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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