Showing posts with label Supply Chain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supply Chain. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Time for A Publisher ID?

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  In the 1870s R.R. Bowker began publishing The American Catalog which collected publisher titles into one compendium book. The first edi...
Monday, June 07, 2021

Some Book Returns are Good: Managing Returns an Upcoming BISG Webinar

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Book returns have long been the nemesis of warehouse and fulfillment managers and, sometimes conflict, when challenging the optimism of the ...
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 29, 2020

MediaWeek (Vol 13, No 5): Pandemic Books, Hate Publishing on Amazon, College Returns?

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I pulled together a quick list of pandemic books a few weeks ago and here is a CNN article about a rejected book (by publishers) which is n...
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...