Berkery Noyes just released its Information Industry report for Q3 2013, which covers merger and acquisition (M&A) trends over the past 21 months. Click here to view the industry’s median multiples, as well as transaction data from the two-page PDF.Using a database product from D&B they have also presented segment analyses: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Why writing for free is wrong (The Atlantic):But the fact that so many people write for free, all the time, sits uncomfortably with the fact that writing is also, occasionally, a profession. And we have, in this country, a fairly clear sense that work deserves compensation. This is, for example, why I consider unpaid internships morally repugnant, since we're essentially asking that entry-level...
Friday, October 25, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Open Access expert Peter Suber writes in the Guardian: Open access: six myths to put to rest Open access to academic research has never been a hotter topic. But it's still held back by myths and misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better. The good news is that open access has been successful...
Friday, October 18, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Last week at the Frankfurt bookfair sponsored Contec digital conference, John Wiley & Sons CEO Steve Smith made it clear that not only is Wiley moving aggressively into digital content but the company is also moving beyond traditional educational publishing into services and data products. Smith mentioned the recent Wiley acquisition of education services provider Daltek and, in the process,...
Monday, October 14, 2013
Publisher's Weekly round-up of some of the early educational sessions at Frankfurt last week including mine on responsive web design. (PW)Uncertainty is one big obstacle holding publishers back from outsourcing their distribution, observes CEO Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect. “As the marketplace shifts, margins are squeezed on print, and industry reports showing e-book prices for bestsellers continue...
Monday, October 7, 2013
Lots of discussion has been generated by the publication in Science magazine about journalist John Bohannon expose about open access journal publishing. Here commentary from The Chronicle:“The data from this sting operation reveal the contours of an emerging Wild West in academic publishing,” Mr. Bohannon wrote in Friday’s issue of Science.For now, however, allegations of flaws—at least in...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
News that publisher Debretts is to offer the socially inept life skills for surviving in the modern office had more than a few recalling the famous job interview scene from Trainspotting. How likely the average new hire is going to be able to scrape together £1,000 remains to be seen. From The Guardian. ...
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