Editors for Hire — Providing Assistance or Exploiting Hopes?
Should publishers endorse commercial editing services?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Business Models: A Bestiary of Revenue Streams
Business models for publishers fall into four broad categories, defined by how revenue is generated. Some classes of content lend themselves to one model over another.
The Bigger Deal: One Scenario for How the Library Funding Crisis Will Play Out
Maligned though it often is, the Big Deal for journals is likely to get bigger, marginalizing the offerings of smaller publishers.
Aftermarketing: What Publishers Now Must Do After the Sale
A report on book circulation at the Cornell library invites speculation as to how book publishers will have to continue to market their books even after they are sold: aftermarketing.
Darnton, Coppola, and the Impossibility of Free Information
“Free” is an illusion and an insult. All information we want costs money, and we as creators want it to cost money.
Vestron's Law: The Propensity for Rights to Revert to the Original Publisher
Vestron’s Law refers to the propensity for the rights to content to revert to the original publisher. The Law applies to all media types and accounts for some of the industry’s structural changes.
Low-Hanging Fruit and the Re-Ordering of the Value Chain
As new business models emerge and funding sources change, can professional societies and not-for-profits respond? Or will they keep their heads buried in the sand?
Nature's Foray Into Full Open Access Journals
When Nature goes head-to-head with PLoS, will non-profit society publishers take the hit?
10 New Business Models in 2010 — A Primer on Innovation
Want to see the business models behind PatientsLikeMe.com, Groupon, and Spotify? Here they are, along with 7 others from 2010.
Prediction for 2011 — The Individual Rules!
In 2011, the power of the individual consumer will set your strategies.
How the New York Times Bestseller List Is Created
A short video explaining how the list is made.
The Nature Network Implosion — Hmmm, This All Seems Awfully Familiar . . .
Another science blogging network implodes, a sign that the age of exuberance is giving way to the business realities.
Is the Cloud Too Weak to Support What Paper Can?
The Wikileaks scandal shows that commercial cloud providers aren’t ready for the realities of publishing and information hosting.
Privacy, Google, and the Reading Public
Privacy is something we trade in all the time. The questions are about the best trades to make.
Breaking the Silence Around Premature Quantification
Improper use of financial analysis can obscure problems in strategy, a problem faced by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations alike.