Showing posts with label Business Strategy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business Strategy. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Mediaweek (Vol 14, No 5): B&N and Paper Source, Modern Econ, Wiley Annual Report, McGraw Hill Sells +More

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Efforts to modernize the teaching of economics ( The Economist - subscription) Students say that inequality is the most pressing economic pr...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Clarivate Report Proquest Financials: Raise $1Billion in Equity

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On May 17, Clarivate announce a proposed deal to acquire Ann Arbor based Proquest.  ( See here ).  In the last few days, Clarivate has repor...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Taking the Temperature - How Publishing Technology Firms View the Future after COVID

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I spent the last several weeks interviewing companies for the next edition of my third annual Publishing Technology report and it was inter...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Adobe Summit - Evangelists For Publishing

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There were some interesting take-always from Monday's Adobe Summit .  The Adobe $1.5B acquisition of Workfront was one of largest Adobe ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Pearson 1Q Report and Other Higher Ed Publishers show Positive Results

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Pearson plc under new CEO Andy Bird posted 'encouraging' results for the 1Q with revenue up 5% versus last year. The company notes t...

Thinking About Selling your Publishing Business?

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  A re-post originally from June 29, 2010. There are various approaches to selling a business and selling a publishing business is no dif...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

NOT SO SUPER – How out of touch owners have badly miscalculated their fans gullibility.

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There’s going to be a super league for UK and European that no one asked for. As astounding an example of hubris you are likely to see even ...
Friday, April 16, 2021

How streaming is changing the music business | FT Film

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Interesting news video from the Financial Times about how streaming is changing business models and options for recording artists: How do yo...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Ingram Sell VitalSource to Francisco Partners

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Big news in education publishing: From their press release: Ingram Content Group® (“Ingram”) today announced it has signed a definitive agr...
Monday, April 05, 2021

PersonaNonData Magazine: Amazon++, Copyright, Shakespeare + Other Articles

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More articles of interest from my flipboard magazine: Articles: New Statesman: Should Books be Free? Billboard: Bandcamp changes the discuss...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Non-fungible Transactions, What Are They? This Solves It.

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Friday, March 26, 2021

New Price Fixing Suit Goes After Publishers and Amazon for Print Prices

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Earlier this year, the law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro (Hagens) filed suit alleging the price fixing and collusion among Amazon.com an...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Barnes & Noble Education: 3Q Results Show COVID Impact

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Barnes & Noble Education reported their third quarter results on March 9th, showing a predictable decrease in revenues due to Covid.  T...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

McKinsey Report on Diversity in Film and Television

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Interesting set of research from McKinsey into the economic impact of diversity in the film and television industries: Today, Black America...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Newsletter: Media News Update

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