The Architect of Innovative Publishing
Often, however, the company doesn’t just spread the knowledge, it also plays an integral role in creating it.
The Future Looks Bright
Tim O’Reilly thinks of his company, which he founded in 1978, not just as a publishing company, but as a kind of technology-transfer company.
“We do that through books, magazines, conferences and online. The fastest-growing areas of our business are conferences —face-to-face knowledge distribution, online publishing initiatives like Safari, and our new magazine publishing division, which includes two quarterly magazines called Make: and Craft. These divisions are all growing 30 percent a year or more, and we actually expect that to accelerate,” he says. “Our computer book publishing divisions are relatively slow-growth, 10 percent—but that’s pretty good in a market that is itself growing only about 2 percent a year, if that.”
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