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10 Underrated Business Books
They are hardly traditional, but by challenging conventional wisdom, these books explain the big ideas that are essential to business success. Economics ...
Tags: Public Relations, Entrepreneurship, Blurb, Books, Publisher, BNET Feature, Business, resources, career, management, Finance, Financial Accounting, Criticism, Geoffrey James, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Marketing Research
Articles 2007-08-24
10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)
Don't believe the hype. These "classic" books attract all the attention, but for real business wisdom, read our preferred suggestions instead. Management Consulting...
Tags: Peripherals, management, career, resources, BNET Feature, Hardware, Mice, Geoffrey James, Finance, Human Resources, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Organizational Structure, Blurb, Books, Publisher
Articles 2007-08-22
SubHub Lands Equity Funding To Boost Its Paid Content Platform
SubHub, a platform whose system helps niche publishers sell subscription content online, has secured first-round venture funding, partly from former Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Europe MD Simon Murdoch, who joins as chairman, paidContent:UK has learned.The round, of an undisclosed amount, goes in to the Cardiff-based company, founded by ex Excite...
Tags: Publisher, Equity, Sales Force Management, Digital Media, Personal Finance, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Features, Exclusive, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-10-14
The End of Publishing, or Its Rebirth?
This week's issue of New York Magazine is ruffling feathers with its cover story on the supposedly imminent death of the book publishing industry, titled simply "The End." (Not even a hedging question mark. Ouch.) But the irony of Boris Kachka's gloomy prognosis is that it leads -- in the...
Tags: Author, Boris Kachka, Karen Steen, Management, Publisher, Strategy
Blog posts 2008-09-16
Wanna Write a "How To Sell" Book?
If you're a sales star and are sick of selling for other people, one upward career path is to become a sales guru and sell your own training. If so, you'll need to write a "how to sell" book. While you can self-publish, there are plenty...
Tags: Publisher, Book Publisher, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2008-05-22
Publishers rush into online payments
More than two thirds of British online publications will be charging for access to their websites within a year, a survey published on Thursday finds.In an annual poll of its members, the UK's Association of Online Publishers found that 50 per cent were already charging for some or all...
Tags: Aspect-oriented Programming, Publisher, Online Payment, Financial Times
External links 2009-09-30
A Guide To The Infighting Between Premium Publishers And Ad Networks
Michael Zimbalist is vice president of research and development operations at The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). Previously, he was president of the Online Publishers Association. A fissure opened within the online advertising community last month following the release of new research by the Online Publishers Association. Drawing...
Tags: Advertisement, Network, Publisher, Sales, Michael Zimbalist, OPA, Advertising, Features, Leading Voices, Media & Publishing
External links 2009-09-18
Glass Half Full? 51 Percent Believe Charging For Online Content Can Succeed
As newspapers increasingly mull methods of building paywalls, an American Press Institute study via Reflections of a Newsosaur suggests there’s not much confidence that doing so will work. In a poll of publishers from 118 U.S. papers and 4,000 consumers in an online survey, only 51 percent think getting...
Tags: Publisher, Construction, Marketing Research, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Research & Metrics, Research, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-14
Interview: Google News' Josh Cohen: Can The Aggregator Ever Win Over Publishers?
There’s no shortage of publishers who are eager to criticize Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—and specifically Google News. They accuse the company alternatively of building a business on the back of their content and not giving their original content sufficient visibility in search results. Despite high-profile efforts to reach out to...
Tags: Google Inc., Google News, Publisher, Internet, Construction, Search, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Google, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-09
How Widgets Fit into the New Physics of News
One of our readers raised some salient points about our recent post "Google: A New Physics for the News." The gist was that he likes to embed widgets from the Washington Post that dynamically update subjects that interest him on a web page or in his bookmarks. This yields the...
Tags: Web, Digital-rights Management, Publisher, Reporter, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Channel Management, Digital Media, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Weir
Blog posts 2008-09-18
The Publishers and The Posers
It's Friday, and rather than digg into specific companies, just this once I feel like stepping back and taking a long view of the media industry we monitor here so closely. Think about it. What now qualifies as "media" -- in one form or another -- theoretically...
Tags: Web, Publisher, Web Site, Web-publishing, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, David Weir
Blog posts 2008-09-26
Google Fast Flip Becomes the News Stand, Pressure on Publishers
If news publishers and broadcasters already had a love/hate relationship with Google, they must be tearing their hair out in frustration at the company's new Fast Flip offering. It's one of those seemingly tiny changes that represents a leap in how people perceive they can do things. The "thing" in...
Tags: Google Inc., Publisher, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-09-15
How to make $28 million using EQ
I belong to the Emotional Intelligence group on LinkedIn and someone recently asked members if they could supply a story where they had used emotional intelligence successfully. I offered this example: The story begins in 1988. John Iremonger, then a leading publisher with Allen &...
Tags: Author, Publisher, Wine, Lunch, Emotional Intelligence, Venture Capital, Tools & Techniques, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Chris Golis
Blog posts 2009-07-25
Has Entrepreneur Media Just Put Its Foot In It?
The news of the continuing editorial bloodbath at Entrepreneur Media, publisher of Entrepreneur Magazine, have been making extensive rounds of the media circles. Even after a round of lay-outs earlier this year, editorial folk have continued pulling their ripcords to parachute out at a time when media staff jobs are...
Tags: Round, Entrepreneur Media, Publisher, Entrepreneurship, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-07-22
Smashwords Broadens its Reach to Publishers
Over its first year of operations, the eBook publishing platform and online book store Smashwords has catered mainly to authors, publishing some 1,200 titles from about 600 authors. As is fitting on its first-year anniversary, Smashwords announced today that it is broadening its services to add support for book publishers....
Tags: Adobe PDF, Publisher, Amazon.com Inc., Smashwords, Smashwords Service, Mobipocket, E-books, Personal Technology, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-05-05
Google May Save Papers, Not Kill Them
Google didn't force the New York Times to buy the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion, nor whisper to Sam Zell that what a newspaper like the Chicago Tribune really needs is billions of dollars in debt. Google never told reporters to resist writing for the Web because their papers' Internet...
Tags: Google Inc., Publisher, Search, Strategy, Management, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-05-03
The IAB's "Long Tail" Video Needs a Sequel
Late yesterday, Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, emailed out a link the video above entitled, "I Am the Long Tail," which is aimed at humanizing all of those small publishers that make up the hackneyed â€" but vital â€" long tail. It certainly...
Tags: Long Tail, Publisher, Video, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Catharine P. Taylor
Blog posts 2009-03-24
Quillp: "Where Books Find Friends"
Another intriguing experiment about how to exploit the web's search, networking, and publishing technologies to help authors, readers and publishers all find each other is on the scene. Quillp Beta, a Berlin-based startup, aims to circumvent the "traditional limitations" of the publishing industry by providing  "an integrated platform for readers...
Tags: Author, Publisher, Books, Quillp, Strategy, Management, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-02-16
Google Wades into E-Mud with E-Books; Settlement with Publishers May Not Be Valid
It was news at the end of October that Google came to terms with publishers and authors regarding its scanning of copyrighted books and making them available for electronic search. However, a new twist has emerged: Google will be able to sell electronic versions of books that have gone out...
Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Publisher, E-books, Litigation, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Erik Sherman, Author, Chances
Blog posts 2008-11-10
Bloomsbury pins hopes on Blumenthal
Bloomsbury Publishing, publisher of the Harry Potter series, is pinning its hopes on the Canadian author Margaret Atwood and celebrity chefs such as Heston Blumenthal to boost sales in the second half of the year, after reporting a steep decline in first-half profits.Pre-tax profit dropped from £5.37m ($8.69m) to...
Tags: Publisher, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Company News, Interim Results, Marketing, Results, Financial Times
External links 2009-08-27
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