Showing posts with label Trade publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trade publishing. Show all posts
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Media Report (Vol 14, No 2): Pell Grants, Black Literature, Cancelling Shakespeare, American Dirt

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Raising Pell: How Industry Support and Federal Grants Improve Prison Education ( PND ) The Obama Administration recognized that a coordinate...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

MediaWeek Report (Vol 13, No 2): ViaNOT - Simon & Schuster Nolonger a Fit at ViacomCBS

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Almost apologetically, ViacomCBS Chief Executive Bob Bakish announced that Simon and Schuster (S&S) wasn’t a real fit for his med...
Tuesday, February 02, 2016

The Giant List of Publishing Predictions for 2016

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Here is a listing of some interesting predictions for 2016 across the publishing and media sector: Trade and Self-Publishing Mark Coker ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 42): Writing for Free, Comic Sutra, Autobiographies + More

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Why writing for free is wrong ( The Atlantic ): But the fact that so many people write for free, all the time, sits uncomfortably with t...
Monday, October 21, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 42): Open Access Myths, eBooks and Tablets, China's Fake Research Industry, Brit Trade Invasion, + More

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Open Access expert Peter Suber writes in the Guardian:  Open access : six myths to put to rest Open access to academic research has neve...
Monday, October 07, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 40): Open Access Publishing Scam?, US Panorama, Political Biographies, Expensive Journalism, 50 Shades +More

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Lots of discussion has been generated by the publication in Science magazine about journalist John Bohannon expose about open access journ...
Monday, August 05, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 32): Detective Fiction, Barnes & Noble + More

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Why detective fiction works from New Statesman: This may or may not be a good thing. These days, you can comfortably inhabit the world of ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Baked Beans Are Off - Ideas on What Scale Means (And reference to Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House)

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One of the themes at BookExpo 2013 is about scale in publishing and how this concept has and is changing within our industry.  I was remin...
Monday, May 20, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 21) Online College?, Society Publishing, Georgia Tech Online, Copyright Revision + More

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Nathan Heller in The New Yorker : Is College moving Online? When people refer to “higher education” in this country, they are talking about...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 20) Dan Brown's Inferno, a Parody, Coursera, + More

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The Telegraph reviews the new Dan Brown book (in a way): The Inspector reluctantly passed a laptop to Langdon who could now sit up in bed...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Croudsourcing Investments in Books: It will happen.

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Eric Hellman over at the eponymously named Go To Hellman has an interesting idea that chips away at one of the last foundations of big publ...