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Virtual Reality and the Scholarly Publisher

This time, Virtual Reality is not a gimmick. This post summarises my investigations and thoughts on the possibilities for VR in the context of scholarly publishing. Plus there’s a quick primer to get you started.

  • By David Smith
  • Nov 18, 2015
  • 13 Comments

Amazon and the Future of Work

Amazon was recently criticized harshly in an article in the New York Times. The piece raises the question of whether the hard-charging culture of the tech industry is what we want.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 25, 2015
  • 11 Comments

Block that PC! Forcing Your Organization to Engage the Mobile User Experience

Publishers and libraries do not completely understand how changing information consumption patterns, especially in the transition to mobile, should affect their product, infrastructure, and acquisitions strategies. Consider enticing or forcing your organization to engage more deeply with the mobile user experience.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 14, 2015
  • 10 Comments

The Half-life of Print

Popular discussion of the enduring popularity of print often obfuscate the business issues of managing a company that is transitioning from print to digital.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 4, 2015
  • 14 Comments

Contemplating a Chart — How the Home Page Dominates Thinking . . . and Little Else

A quick analysis of data based on an insight from the New York Times’ “Innovation” Report suggests that the home page dominates thinking far too much, leading to blind spots about what really deserves our design attention.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 16, 2014
  • 11 Comments

Regret Salad with Aspiration Dressing — A Scholarly Publisher Delves Into the New York Times’ Innovation Report

The New York Times’ “Innovation” Report will hit a lot of nerves when it comes to strategy, long-term transformation, investment, digital operations, silos, print legacy, and organizational culture. And it will remind you how barely contained panic looks to others.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 29, 2014
  • 3 Comments

What Is A Photocopier?

A reenactment of a legal deposition transcript offers some absurdity for your Friday.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 9, 2014
  • 0 Comments

Privacy and the University Press

As university presses become more involved with D2C marketing, they are going to confront the need for clearly articulated privacy policies. The time to put those policies in place is now.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 11, 2014
  • 3 Comments

The Web-scale University Press

This is an essay on what it would mean to create a university press that operates at Web scale. It speculates about what such an endeavor would look like and probes some aspects of the financial model.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Nov 7, 2013
  • 16 Comments

Correcting the Record Is No Easy Task: The McDonald's Coffee Spill Case

More than twenty years later, confusion still reins over the McDonald’s coffee spill lawsuit, an example of how difficult it is to retroactively correct public perception.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 25, 2013
  • 5 Comments

SXSW Interactive — Where the Geeks (and Geek Watchers) Go

SXSW 2013 is heavy on hardware, invention, lessons about taking risks and exploring, usability, and discussions about how best to achieve authority and credibility.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Mar 14, 2013
  • 3 Comments

Taking Issue — A New York Times Editorial Mishandles the OSTP Memorandum

The OSTP memorandum is a reasonable step forward for everyone. However, a NYT editorial provides misleading interpretations of its scope and design.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 27, 2013
  • 7 Comments

Tesla, Journalism, and the Limits of Data — A Lesson in Context and Interpretation

An electric car’s data versus a journalist’s experiences — and neither proves sufficient for the task of telling us exactly what happened.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 26, 2013
  • 1 Comment

What Consumer Media Can Teach Us About Professional Publishing

Consumer media sets expectations for how professional media will develop. The new production of “House of Cards” is an example of this.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 4, 2013
  • 13 Comments

Intellectual Property Is a University’s Best Friend

Universities should seek to retain control of their copyrights and develop mechanisms to monetize them to ensure the financial health of the institutions. This is a proposal that sides neither with open access advocates nor with the interests of commercial organizations.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jan 7, 2013
  • 27 Comments
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