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  Why Publishers Need a Content Strategy Today

  1455 readersBy Ingrid Goldstein During the past few years there has been much talk about the changes in publishing. There is now no doubt that publishers – especially specialist publishers – are being seen as, and seeing themselves as, content providers. In addition to traditional print books, publishers are increasingly offering digital products, either online, as e-books,

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  SURVEY: How Sophisticated is Your Publishing Content Strategy?

  1418 readersBy Edward Nawotka Today’s feature story by Ingrid Goldstein argues that publishers — should they want to compete with Amazon, Apple, Google and other tech companies — need to implement a content strategy, and fast. The main advantages, she argues, are “reduced ‘time to market’ for new products and services, and a drastic reduction in the creation,

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  SURVEY: How Sophisticated is Your Publishing Content Strategy?

  1737 readersBy Edward Nawotka Today’s feature story by Ingrid Goldstein argues that publishers — should they want to compete with Amazon, Apple, Google and other tech companies — need to implement a content strategy, and fast. The main advantages, she argues, are “reduced ‘time to market’ for new products and services, and a drastic reduction in the creation,

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  Gnashing of teeth: publishers vs readers

  1148 readers That’s the title of an article by Peter Brantley in Publishers Weekly.  Here’s an excerpt. Publishers argue that one of the benefits of agency pricing was that ebook retailers had to compete on the value of their services, which was (oddly) presumed by publishers to be of higher value to consumers than pricing.

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  Ebooks are actually not books—schools among first to realize

  90 readersPart 1 in a series on e-book distribution to schools. Digital books are triggering tectonic shifts in education. One of the most fundamental, yet seemingly invisible, shifts is happening in the back rooms of district offices—not in the classrooms, not among teachers and students, and definitely not in the board rooms of most big-name publishers and

• Why Publishers Need Agile Content: XML, Semantics and RDF

  2583 readersBy Ingrid S. Goldstein We live in a networked society. The Internet, digitization, and globalization have turned our world into a complex system, a tangled web of relationships. Web 2.0 is already being replaced by Web 3.0, the Social...

• The eBook and eBook Reader Wars

  1716 readersAt this moment, the eBook market giants are at loggerheads with each other for digital content they provide through their stores. Major companies like Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble along with some other major publishers are battling online and in courtrooms for their digital business. At first there wasn’t any competition, when Amazon introduced their Kindle

• B&N Desperately Needs To Become a Technology Company

  657 readers Competition is always a good thing, right? In today's marketplace B&N is the company best positioned  to compete with Amazon for #1 in ebook sales. The problem is B&N still operates like a brick-and-mortar retailer while Amazon is a technology company to the very core. Some have suggested that Microsoft's investment in B&N will help them

• B&N Desperately Needs To Become a Technology Company

  Array readers Competition is always a good thing, right? In today's marketplace B&N is the company best positioned  to compete with Amazon for #1 in ebook sales. The problem is B&N still operates like a brick-and-mortar retailer while Amazon is a technology company to the very core. Some have suggested that Microsoft's investment in B&N will help them

• Amazon: Kindle Books Now Outselling Hardcovers

  1118 readersE-books have hit a significant milestone. In each of the last three months, Amazon reports that sales of books for Kindle have outpaced the sale of hardcover books, and that growth is only accelerating.In a statement, Amazon says, “over…