Logo concept by Todd Goldstein. We don’t know how much Amazon has offered to acquire Goodreads but it probably was not a huge sum. In Silicon Valley, an exit valley between $10 million and $50 million is barely worth mentioning… Read More

Logo treatment by Todd Goldstein. Related: DBW Q&A With Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler | Goodreads Users React When it comes to which website’s pages come up first upon searching Google for a book, Amazon and Goodreads vie for dominance. Now,… Read More

One thing often forgotten by the business press when covering big corporate mergers is that so many little things at the companies need to change: – Email addresses – Naming protocols – Business cards and countless other printed materials –… Read More

By 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,… Read More

By 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,… Read More

By 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.… Read More

By 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.… Read More

Last week, we hosted a seminar with Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) about the emerging opportunities available with analytics & tablet publishing.  Michael Goldstein, Sr. Consultant for Omniture, explained to a group of publishers in New York how they can… Read More

Metadata is the single most important tool publishers can use to market and license products and generate sales in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Learn how to develop effective metadata strategies at this Frankfurt Academy Conference hosted by Ed Nawotka, editor-in-chief… Read More

The Supreme Court issued a ruling on the Omega vs. Costco case that I have covered a couple of times. As Doug Pardee noted, Omega essentially won. With Justice Kagan recusing herself (she had written a pro-Omega brief prior to… Read More

By 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 Semantic… Read More