Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2019

MediaWeek Report (Vol 12, No 1): Flipboard Magazine - America's Test Kitchen, NYPL & Instagram, Textbooks, Blockchain in Publishing

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Check out more interesting articles from my flipboard magazine for publishing and media. Here is an excerpt from one of the articles I...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 11): Merger News, Mega-Journals, Bookstores and Alexa.

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Opposition to the McGrawHill Cengage merger is taking form with the DOJ: In its section titled “The Textbook Market is Broken,” SPARC e...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 10): Flipboard Magazine, Trump Book Slump, Textbook Transformation, Mind the Gap + Others

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View my Flipboard Magazine. Articles: Book Publishing's Trump Slump The Radical Transformation of the Textbook Amazon's Plan...
Monday, August 19, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 9): Amazon Juggernaut & Dilemma, Open Source Publishing, Digital Textbooks, Elsevier

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The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut: What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your ev...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 8): Wiley, Indian Tariffs, UK Textbooks + More

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Wiley buys Zyante Books for $56MM in cash ( press release ) Zyante was founded in 2012 and its zyBooks platform has served over 500,00...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 7): Universal Music archive in flames, No law in the Amazon, Bad data, Faber&Faber

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From the NY Times magazine a cautionary tale about managing archives via the experience of Universal music which saw an entire warehouse...
Friday, June 14, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 6): Publishing News - B&N bidding, EBSCO, Follett, Axel Springer, Paper Shortages, University Presses

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Seoul, Korea: Book store My email newsletter is here. Investors believe the recent bid of $476mm for Barnes & Noble by Elliot Mana...
Monday, June 03, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 5): BookExpo, Elsevier, Viral Books, Bennington College, Magazines and Print.

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From this past weeks BookExpo conference, the Washington Post reflects on publishers concerns about the future.  (What would the business...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 4): The Week In Publishing - Vanity Fair Archive, LA Bookstores, Big Deal Subscriptions

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Bondi Digital a NY based digital publishing company announced the launch of the full Vanity Fair magazine archive: We are thrilled to sha...
Monday, May 13, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 3): The Week in Publishing - UVA Open Access Aperio, University Press, Danielle Steel

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From the FT Why novelist Mark Haddon has lost faith in twitter.  It's academic to some but The Atlantic suggests that university...
Thursday, May 09, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 2): Baker & Taylor, Wiley, Comics, Translations

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In a blow to competition, although not without cause, Baker&Taylor announced they were calling it quits on the retail distribution ma...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

MediaWeek (Vol 12, No 1): Cengage, McGrawHill, Jet

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On Wednesday, Cengage and McGrawHill announced what may be the last mega merger in the educational publishing market place.  Valued at ju...