business models
Robert Andrews highlights the political dangers to the traditional Reed Elsevier [http://www.reedelsevier.com/] business model, by quoting a research note from Berstein Researchās Claudio Aspesi [http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/10/open-access-research-catastrophic-for-reed-elsevier/] : > We think the risk posed to the Elsevier business model is substantial. We believe
comments
Good stuff Iāve read recently, havenāt linked to yet, but donāt have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] ā an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media
rbi
Journalism.co.uk is keeping a timeline of the (still proposed) RBIĀ divestment [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/12/08/timeline-of-rbi-sale/], using the rather neat Dippty [http://www.dipity.com/].
divestment watch
Divestment Watch, the now defunct blog maintained by an RBI employee about our divestment by Reed Elsevier refuses to go quietly into the night.The latest blogger to mention its abrupt curtailment is Adrian Monck, professor of journalism at City University, and one of my favourite journalism bloggers. He explains
Blogging
Online, we have the ability to see directly what overall contribution journalists are playing to theĀ successĀ of a publication. Itās fairly logical that any company would seek to give greater rewards to its best performers, and encourage others to respond more closely to user needs. The āone shotā
rbi
One of my colleagues (in the most broad sense of āworks for the same employer in a distant sub-division of the businessā) has started blogging about the RBI Divestment [http://divestmentwatch.blogspot.com/] as it happens. Heās actually using it as much as a springboard for discussions about company
advertising
PSFK suggest that this marks a big retreat from advertising and a failure to get magazines online [http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/reed-to-leave-publishing-because-of-ad-market-risk.html] : > The story could suggest two things: an Adsense-fueled digital era has made old fashioned print ads irrelevant and therefore broken the business model for
Publishing
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/02/RBI_WEB_2L.jpg] Well, a rather interesting mood in the office this morning. As Press Gazette is reporting, Reed Business Information is officially for sale [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40353&
Publishing
Good news from other parts of the vast Reed Empire [http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2007/09/reeds-rx-conver.html]. Reed Elsevier, which does all that pricey scientific publishing, is starting to make some of its titles free on the web. Good stuff.
defence
Happy news in my work e-mail this morning: Reed Elsevier to exit the defence exhibitions sector [http://www.reedelsevier.com/index.cfm?articleid=2084] > Reed Elsevier announced today that it is to exit the defence exhibitions sector. This portfolio of five shows is part of Reed Elsevierās global
IDKee
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/05/pip_logo_beta.gif] I see part of the wide-ranging Reed Elsevier [http://www.reed-elsevier.com/] organisation (full disclosure: my employers) has decided that OpenID [http://openid.net/] is a Good Idea and done something about it. IDKee [http:
Blogging
Last Friday was not a good day to be milling around at a conference with a badge saying āReed Businessā on it. Why? Because people kept asking me about this hard hitting post by Seth Godin [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/spammers_and_pr.html]. Iād
