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Look beyond your niche, says symposium on publishing for mobile

Report from the Semantico Online Publishing Symposium on Mobile and Cross-platform Delivery – Part Two

Publishers must widen their frame of reference in order fully to understand the change in business models that taking their content online might necessitate – looking beyond traditional pricing models and text formats within their particular field of publishing.
This was one [...]

S3UG 2010 – Project management with a mobile twist

This year’s Semantico User Group Event in Oxford was a practical and forward-looking day, with presentations from Semantico’s staff and clients.
Originally held as a means for informing customers about the technical development of Semantico’s products, the event has since grown to become a forum for knowledge sharing and debate about a wide range of issues [...]

ALPSP Seminar – Richard Padley speaks on The Future of Academic Publishing

The Future of Academic Book Publishing was a one-day seminar which provided a unique opportunity for those attending to consider both the present situation facing academic and scholarly publishers of all shapes and sizes, and the likely direction for the business of academic book publishing in the immediate future.
For those who [...]

Searching for the upturn: notes from Online Information ‘09

It’s always suspicious (to a jaundiced marketing person’s eye) when a show organiser chooses to place a large seated cafe area at the centre of the exhibition floor.
There were some noticeable absences at this year’s Online Information exhibition at Olympia – no doubt the result of crunch-inspired budget caution – and the air of an industry bracing [...]

Optimism on e-books at Online Information 2008

If there was a dominant theme out on the floor of this year’s Online Information 2008 show at Olympia, it had to be the continuing rise of e-books. I conducted a brief survey of opinions from the stands and, even discounting for the tendency of suppliers to talk up their own market, it was an [...]


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