by mnross | Jul 24, 2022 | Platforms, Pricing, Publishing
Types of education and consumer subscription models currently available The many ways that educators and consumers can obtain web-based content varies greatly depending on the market and the type of content. The choices can be bewildering, especially because the...
by mnross | Jul 15, 2022 | Algorithms, Collaboration, Copyright, Digital publishing, Education, Libraries, Publishing
For almost the entire history of the library ecosystem, publishing companies and libraries have been as tightly aligned in their missions as any other pair of mutually beneficial partnerships. It is hard to imagine a more symbiotic relationship than that between...
by mnross | Jul 5, 2022 | Digital publishing, Education, Publishing
There’s no use going to school unless your destination is the library—Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 In his book Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests that the future of democratic societies depends not only on shared values but on shared spaces: The...
by mnross | Sep 27, 2021 | Digital publishing, Education, Formats, Publishing
(From the Preface) In 2007 I wrote a book entitled Publishing without Boundaries: How to Think, Work, and Win in the Global Marketplace, which had two main objectives: to provide publishers with editorial strategies for creating culturally appropriate products for...
by mnross | Jul 27, 2020 | Engagement, Publishing
Most likely you are using LinkedIn and have a network of “connections” and “followers.” Connections are people whom you have invited into your network or who have invited you and you accepted. Although all connections are followers (unless, in...
by mnross | Jul 2, 2020 | Digital publishing, Formats, Publishing
When Amazon “disrupted” the book publishing business back in the late 20th Century, it solved two nagging problems: One was the availability of books, either popular titles that bookstores ran out of, or “long-tail” titles, which were slow-selling titles, or older...