Let Us Now Praise Failed Experiments

[…] libraries, whether the accomplishment is the creation of a popular new service, a successful reorganization, the redesign of an important workflow, or even the elimination of a task formerly considered essential. Such presentations and articles are commonly referred to as […]

iOS: The Evolution of an Agile Business

[…] the take up of the iPhone changed all that. The experience was so good that smartphones went from a niche/ workflow/business task oriented product, to mass user/future of the Internet overnight. And Steve Jobs and Apple discovered the truth in […]

Creating a New University Press

[…] with an editorial impulse. Although much talk about publishing today is about technical matters and such things as “integrating the workflow,” no publisher ever started out by focusing on production or process engineering. Publishers begin by asserting what kind of […]

Why the Simple “Me” Beats the Royal “We”

[…] it is well nigh impossible to do that if the end purpose is to defend the rigid linear internal production workflow model of the publisher, who cannot conceive of relinquishing his containers or his pricing models, or the accident-waiting- to-happen […]

Sounding the Revolution

[…] news, trade book, or recording industries, for example). Our industry embraced these new technologies early and adopted them into our workflows and business models. Scholarly publishers have been very good at taking print containers and moving them to the Web. […]