Another Missed Opportunity for Bookstores — Hardware Lessons from the E-Reader Space
Traditional bookstores are missing a huge e-reader opportunity, proving that, sadly, they are not the customer-focused retailers they once were.
CrossDress: A New Fashion-Forward Service Where Social Media Meets Glamor
CrossRef announces a new system in conjunction with New York’s Fashion Week.
Privatizing Peer Review — The PubCred Proposal
When authors are unwilling to peer review and incentives are not enough, is it time to privatize the system?
Starting From the Mobile Web — An Argument for Rethinking Deployments to Reach People
We’ve been building with the assumption that Web sites should flow to the desktop. But if everything is mobile, and people are mobile, and we want to reach people, shouldn’t we think differently?
The “Me at the Center” Expectation — A New Consumer Mindset and What It Might Portend
The world should present itself relative to me = the emerging expectation. What that means for broadcasters and publishers? Get ready to be shared.
Why the Open Access Financial Model Will Continue to Transmogrify
The OA financial model has morphed, and will continue to do so. The same realities will reveal the manufacturing biases of the initial model, and require new funding choices — just like it will for traditional publishers.
The Portfolio Strategy: Developing a Financially Sound Plan for Not-for-profit Publishers
In order to ensure the financial viability of their organizations, not-for-profit publishers have to adopt a portfolio-management strategy or they run the risk of compromising their core editorial values.
Sounding the Revolution
How do we gain a better vantage amidst the dust and din of an ongoing information revolution the likes of which the world has never seen before?
The Editorial Fallacy
In a disruptive publishing environment, publishers cannot rely on a purely editorial strategy, as many of the issues now facing them are not editorial in nature.
Let the Adaptations Begin!
The infrastructure for change is in place and largely working. What might that mean for publishing and academic cultures? (The first of a four-part series.)
Is Amazon Still Man’s Best Friend?
Peter Brantley has written an insightful piece on some of the implications of Amazon’s much-vaunted high royalty payments to authors who publish directly with them (that is, with Amazon).
Is CAPTCHA Vulnerable to Economics?
CAPTCHA is viewed as a technology solution to bolster access controls. But by involving humans as solvers, it’s been opened up to a labor market solution.
It’s the End of the Book As We Know It — and I Feel Fine
As bookstores and books in general meet the fate of physical media everywhere, maybe we should celebrate.
Letting The Inmates Run the Asylum: Are Blogging Networks Compatible with Publishing Business Plans?
Open blogging networks may be impossible to commercialize, for a host of reasons.
Pubget Continues to Puzzle and Diversify
Pubget still seems like a technology in search of a problem or a solution in search of a viable business model.