by mnross | Jun 21, 2024 | Branding, Collaboration, Digital publishing, Partnering, Product development, Publishing
The following announcement dropped today by Stellar Business and I thought I’d share it with my community. “In the fast-paced world of business, it can be hard to keep up with, and easy to overlook, all the new and innovative ideas and startups that are...
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 | Jan 13, 2022 | Digital publishing, Education, Formats
What 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...
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 | Apr 25, 2021 | Digital publishing, Education, Formats
Saving 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...