Online services have taken over as the lead revenue generating medium in the tax, accounting and business publishing market, supplanting books for the first time ever, according to the latest report from Simba Information, a leading media industry forecast and analysis firm. Global Tax, Accounting & Business Publishing 2013-2014 revealed that online services grew to 5.1% to $3 billion in 2012, representing 43% of the entire market, pushing the book category into second place for the first time...
February 13, 2014Faced with a changing media landscape, newspaper publishers have struggled to remain relevant over the years. As distrust in the news media grows, it seems like the worst possible time to place tariffs on the very paper used to print newspapers – newsprint – and publishers have taken it upon themselves to roll them back.
August 15, 2018No lunch is free, but OA’s price tag has some losing their appetite
December 10, 2020As the start of the 2021-2022 school year approached in August, school superintendents were focused on active learning, engagement and building deep connections, but found that COVID-19 continued to impact schools.
September 13, 2021Enjoy this fast fact from Simba Information’s report, "Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024"
January 5, 2021By: Michael Norris As I write this, Simba Information is preparing to move offices. For any subscriber, at any organization of any size, you know exactly what kind of headache this is causing. We’ve been where we are in the city of Stamford, Connecticut since President Bush’s first term. Without the same generous amount of storage space in our new quarters, we have been spending a lot of time sorting through paper. In one drawer I found handwritten notes I jotted down during a 2010 AAP mee...
November 27, 2013Simba Information examines trends surrounding college course materials publishers.
October 2, 2019Higher education publishers and distributors are ramping up their efforts to change the way college students acquire and access course materials, increasingly with the support of institutions and faculty.
March 19, 2018Digital education company BoomWriter Media, launched its first writing platform, StoryWriter in 2011, led by its co-founders Ken Haynes, Chris Twyman, and Ian Garland. The software allows students to write chapters of a book using an avatar, then vote anonymously on which chapter they like best, and at the end of the process, they have a finished book. Additionally, each task that a student completes earns them Boomer Bucks, which students can use to customize their avatar. Boomwriter’s software...
May 6, 2016Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have thrown a curve ball into publishers’ plans for success in the Florida math adoption in 2018, but he also may have done the industry a favor by smoothing out the adoption opportunity over more years, disrupting the peaks and valleys cycle that has plagued the industry for decades.
May 14, 2019