It’s been more than a year since I updated our list of the Top Ten Publishers in America. Because of some changes in the available point-of-sale data, we were not able...

This week, we ask Dr Dave Chaffey, author of the new E-consultancy Best Practice Guide to Managing Digital Channels (published today) to� run us through� the results...

David Eaves has taken a look at the linking policies of major US and UK news websites, and� found a correlation between the number of outbound links and...

Want to read a wealth of magazines without spending a dime on subscriptions or one-time transactions? A website by the name of Mygazines is promising just that. I for...

By no means this is a usual thing, but since there’s very little information (in fact only one link that gives no real answers) on what to do when you see the error...

I love publisher success stories. I think it’s part of the core of what I love about the business aspects of the web, and why I ended up building advertising tools...

As promised last month, O'Reilly has released 30 titles as DRM-free downloadable ebook bundles. The bundles include three ebook formats (EPUB, PDF, and Kindle-compatible...

Mygazines.com is an interesting idea. Currently in beta, it’s designed to let anyone upload any magazine or magazine article, and then share the content, using the...

As I have said before, we don’t need more books. Instead, we need better books. Specifically, we need books that “wow.” But what is wow and how can we develop it? ...

This post is a 20-minute guide to Twitter for non-techies. (If you don’t know what Twitter is, you can start with my first post on the topic, Twitter-dee, Twitter-dum....

Is the true open source revolution finally coming to college campuses this fall? Many universities are big users of open source, and Internet resources. But when it comes...

Instant messaging service Meebo announced a new product tonight called community Instant Messaging that will effectively provide “instant messaging in a box”...

Yesterday, I spoke at Podcamp Boston 3 up at Harvard Medical School in the beautiful Joesph B Martin Conference Center. The topic of my presentation was titled,...

If Apple irons out the kinks, MobileMe could be worthwhile for iLife and iPhone users who want to keep data on their Macs, handset, iPod Touch, as well as Outlook mail...

The iTunes model has hit publishing. Our publisher, Random House, is selling� individual chapters out of books. And Made to Stick is the guinea pig for this noble...

Last summer, Roger asked me to read the manuscript for the 25th anniversary updated edition of A WHACK. The book, which was just released, is a must read for anyone...

Niall's book, Enterprise 2.0 How social software will change the future of work, finally was made available and I must admit I am a fan !!! Finally, we have in...

Kudos to Tim and O'Reilly for the launch of their "Tools of Change for Publishing" conference which we will definitely find a way to attend... but I have to believe that...

I was a guest on a webcast about social software this week (you can watch it here; it’s free) and the question came up about what publications can do to build...

In 2006, Canada's book publishing revenue was Can $2.1 billion, down 1.2% from the 2005 revenues. [Source]The operating expenses went up by 0.9% because of increased...