Elsevier, Springer Nature, John Wiley & Sons and Informa have fended off the advent of preprint article repositories, open access journals, funder mandates, boycotts and big deal library subscription cancellations. Here are five reasons why these leading companies continue to endure...
July 11, 2018Reference management tools such as Mendeley and ReadCube only generate 1% to 2% of scientific and technical journal sales, but publishers are betting on them in a big way to build deeper relationships with customers - this according to the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information. The report, Global Scientific & Technical Publishing 2015-2019, found that the global scientific and technical publishing market saw very modest growth in 2014 with total sales...
September 21, 2015Houghton Mifflin Harcourt appointed new executives in October who will report directly to president and CEO Jack Lynch.
October 17, 2017Simba Information has introduced an updated version of our popular Knowledge Center, a one-stop platform that unifies Simba's authoritative content and revolutionizes the way clients access and use market research.
March 27, 2017The recent release of Simba Information’s report Global Legal Publishing 2016-2020 presents a very unique opportunity, one that I cannot let pass-the chance to publish a blog about law publishing and blogs. I know, take a breath, gather yourselves because we are about to boldly go where only Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer-he of the coffee table book about coffee tables-would go. The legal publishing industry is facing some of the same changes the science, technical and medical (STM) publishing face...
March 18, 2016K12 Inc., manager of virtual schools and provider of online learning resources, in August made a $9 million investment in STEM Premier to help grow the online community that links current and future workforce talent with organizational recruiting needs in a variety of career fields.
August 22, 2018Publishers are approaching changes in the PreK-12 instructional materials market in different ways
August 7, 2018From Electronic Education Report , Dec. 9, 2013 Knewton (New York) in December forged a partnership with the publishing platform Gutenberg Technology (Paris and New York) to develop and distribute interactive course materials for Apple, Android and Windows tablets and smartphones that include Knewton-powered personalization without additional technical work. “The significance of this deal is that we are now working with all of these new education companies that are playing integral and impor...
December 5, 2013By Jaewon Kang, excerpt from TheDeal.com, Dec. 31, 2014 Even as ALM Media Properties LLC nears completing its first deal under new private equity backer Wasserstein & Co. LP, the New York media house is evaluating more acquisitions in the professional services industry. In December, ALM Media acquired Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory from Bloomberg LP subsidiary Kennedy Information LLC. ALM and Kennedy did not disclose financial terms of the latest transaction. The deal includes Consul...
February 10, 2015Publishing for the PreK-12 Market 2016-2017 provides the most up-to-date business information not only on the impact of recent changes in education policy but on the emergence of new technologies and the new applications for traditional technology (print) in the school market. The updated annual report provides the most recent comprehensive overview of the U.S. school market and the instructional materials providers that serve it. Topics of relevance for emerging, developing and structurally c...
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