Content and Digital Asset Management

For 'Harry Potter' fans, an era is ending
July 11, 2011

Friday marks the end of an era. Some, like Warner Bros. executive Dan Fellman, compare its finality to the breakup of the Beatles.

When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the eighth and presumably final film based on the phenom that has sold 450 million books and close to a billion movie tickets, opens this week in theaters from Lahore to Los Angeles, it will be twilight in the Potterverse.

Self Publishing: Friend or Foe?
July 1, 2011

As the self-publishing phenomenon has grown and matured, traditional book publishers have passed through something like the five stages of grief.

John Wiley & Sons … Lessons from a Publisher that Has Made the Digital Transition
May 5, 2011

We can all learn some valuable lessons about making the “transition to digital” from John Wiley & Sons, the $1.7 billion publisher of scientific, technical, medical (STMS), higher education, and professional trade books and journals.

... Wiley’s outgoing CEO, William Pesce and incoming CEO, Stephen Smith spoke yesterday in an excellent webinar hosted by Book Business Magazine’s editor-in-chief Noelle Skodzinski and sponsored by publishing technology vendor Aptara. I strongly encourage you to take some time to listen to Learn from Wiley’s Legacy and Leadership.

At Your Service
March 1, 2011

Strong interest exists among both publishers and consumers in a fundamentally different e-book model: content delivery through subscription-based services.

Really Strategies Announces RSuite Cloud
February 2, 2011

(Press Release) Audubon, Pa., February 1, 2011—Really Strategies announced today the availability of RSuite Cloud, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats.