Likes vs. Views on LinkedIn
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...
Thinking of Sponsoring a Summer Intern from Abroad? Brace Yourself
A few years ago, an Italian friend of mine asked me if I would hire her son Luca as an intern for the summer. Carlotta ran an educational publishing company in Parma, just south of Milan, and Luca was attending a local business school and wanted to get experience in...
Lower Prices Is One Way to Identify Disruption, But Is It the Most Important One?
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...
Academics for the Pandemic
Some Ideas for Helping Parents and Teachers Make the Best Use of e-Learning Resources: This Fall and Beyond Since lockdown will likely remain in place for most of the country for the near future, and most schools will conduct classes virtually, “home...
Digital Publishing Ideas
- Paid and Free Website OptionsTypes 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 landscape continues to change. Netflix, for example, for years followed the HBO subscription model where for […]
- How Publishers Can Best Leverage Libraries in the Digital AgeFor 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 publishers and libraries. The two entities appear more interdependent than baseball bat manufacturers and […]
- Why Libraries are Critical to Our Cultural IdentityThere’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 libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed.[1] The title of […]
- Pricing Models for Online ProductsWhat Price Is Right? Pricing models for books and physical media (CDs, DVDs, audiocassettes) are straightforward, whereas the current pricing models for online content can be baffling—a mixed bag of sponsored content and motley subscription and licensing models, with little market consensus on what online access to various products should cost. Buyers favoring subscription models […]
- Preface excerpt from “Publishing in the Digital Age”(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 non-traditional markets; and to outline ways to leverage emerging digital technologies to generate additional revenue […]
- Salt of the EarthSaving Analog Film for Future Use Located about 50 miles northwest of Wichita on the Arkansas River, the city of Hutchinson, Kansas—known as “Salt City” for its extensive labyrinth of salt mines—is the home of Underground Vaults & Storage (UV&S), one of the largest and most secure storage facilities in the world. A 60-year-old […]