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By Jabin White
About Jabin
Jabin White is Director of Strategic Content for Wolters Kluwer (WK) Health's Professional & Education (P&E) Division. He is responsible for advising WK's publishing teams on relevant technologies, collaboratively helping to determine product opportunities, and spearheading P&E's digital content initiatives.
With a heavy background in XML theory and practice, White has spent most of his career evangelizing the benefits of markup languages and related technologies, including content management, workflow enhancements, and authoring tools. Prior to joining WK, White served as Vice President, STM Sales for Scope eKnowledge Center, and VP of Product Development at Silverchair, Inc., a leading developer of information solutions for health care publishers.
He also spent five years as Executive Director of Electronic Production at Elsevier, serving the Health Sciences Division. White started in health sciences publishing as an editorial assistant at Current Medicine and has held electronic publishing positions at Mosby, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and Unbound Medicine. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a BA in history and has a Masters in Business Administration at Pennsylvania State University.
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Publishers Want to Charge More for E-books ... But Will Consumers Pay It?
Mar 12, 2010I just returned from an incredible vacation to Colorado. It was the first time I traveled with my Nook,...
Free? Really?
I like to think I'm a pretty easy-going guy. I don't usually get mad at too many things, and try to take a reasoned, fact-based approach to issues. But I have to admit, nothing gets my blood boiling quite like the debate over pricing of digital content.
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This Just In: Hype Cycles are Overdone
If you believe the hype, everyone on the planet either has or soon will have a Kindle, and if they don't, they will have one of the many competitors coming to market. No one will ever buy a print book again.
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