There's something exciting - and reassuring - about publishers using terms such as ‘hackathon' and ‘open-source': everyone knows they have the content but releasing it wild into a environment they may not be able to fully control can be difficult. It seems to be in this spirit that Pearson has embraced an open-source approach to digital content, making its proprietary content available to third-party dig Read more »

The book publishing trade has passed the digital tipping point - no, the majority of trade publishing may not yet be electronic, but as an industry, th Read more »

Few can argue with the proposition in the government’s response to the Hargreaves Report that enabling medical and scientific research is a good thing, both for social and economic reasons. What is more controversial, however, is how this should be achieved, and what the implications will actually be in practice. Read more »

I think all creative businesses should be asking themselves: should my core medium be the focus of my business, or should I be developing and exploiting my creative content in several media? And assuming the answer is yes, they should then ask how do I go about taking my content and brand into a new medium? It is a question being asked by TV production companies, magazine publishers and record labels as much as by book publishers. Read more »