A new study from disruptive economics guru Clayton Christensen's think tank gives more clarity into how online learning could shape the future of education.…
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Podcast: Why the digital age needs an effective content licensing strategy
Publishers must now focus on a strategy for effectively licensing digital content. In the latest GigaOM Research Podcast, analyst Paul Sweeting discusses why we need a strategy and how it will impact publishers and others.…
Read MorePodcast: Why the digital age needs an effective content licensing strategy
Publishers must now focus on a strategy for effectively licensing digital content. In the latest GigaOM Research Podcast, analyst Paul Sweeting discusses why we need a strategy and how it will impact publishers and others.…
Read MoreCan publishing giant Wiley take on lynda.com and others with new digital learning site?
Publishing giant Wiley has launched Digital Classroom, an online marketplace of software training videos and digital books.…
Read MoreDigital learning startup Benchprep expands into video-based software training courses
Benchprep, a digital learning startup based in Chicago, is rolling out video-based software training courses targeting college and high school students, not adults looking for professional development.…
Read MorePress+: Publishers are charging more for digital content and offering less free
According to Press+ data, the average price of a monthly digital subscription is now $9.26 -- up from $6.85 at the beginning of 2012. Publishers are also offering fewer articles for free before a user hits a paywall.…
Read MorePearson exec: we need to be an “Electronic Arts for education”
As Pearson - along with the entire textbook publishing industry - rethinks its role in education, one of the company's executives says it could look to build the core competencies of digital content creators like video game giant Electronic Arts.…
Read MorePaywall startup Tinypass adds metered subscriptions for small publishers
Paywall startup Tinypass, which is based in New York City and works with small digital publishers, is expanding metering options to its users.…
Read MoreMedia store wars: iTunes vs Amazon vs Google Play
Google now activates one million Android devices per day and has 400 million devices in the wild, but its media store efforts have lagged. Google Play now has more digital content types, so here's a look at how it compares to iTunes and Amazon's digital store.…
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
I’m at the paidContent 2012: At The Crossroads conference in New York today so posting will be light. You can follow the…
Read MoreNew solutions for the new era of TV interfaces
It will take more than a five-button remote control to efficiently navigate the new universe of video content now available. That means a new user interface for the video viewing experience is inevitable, and many companies are involved. Here are a few to watch.…
Read MoreThe paywall debate: monetizing news in the digital era
Free, digital content has shattered long-established ways of making money in the newspaper publishing industry, and publishers must now find new ways to subsidize content-creation costs directly. That includes everything from more-flexible paywalls to borrowing the business models of industries like online gaming and music.…
Read MoreHands on with Kindle Cloud Reader for iPad
Apple no longer allows e-book sellers to link out to their stores, which is likely why Amazon introduced a new web-based app that works outside of Apple's official software distribution channel on Wednesday. Here's a look at the new Kindle Cloud Reader, and its integrated store.…
Read MoreNYT Labs: Can a newspaper think like a startup?
The New York Times has rolled out a site called beta620, to provide a home for all of its experimental web projects and apps. But can the paper successfully adopt the kind of beta culture that drives startups, or is the new site just a sideshow?…
Read MoreCan Editions find a place in the iPad news aggregation crowd?
AOL's new Editions iPad app, billed as a "daily magazine that reads you," is now available in the App Store. It's actually remarkably smart and sexy, but can Editions hope to make a significant splash when similar apps like Flipboard already seem so firmly entrenched?…
Read MoreProject Runway brings fan voting to Twitter
Project Runway viewers are already big social media users, sharing thoughts about the show while watching it live. So why not use Twitter as a way for fans to vote for their favorite contestant. That was the thinking behind Project Runway's Fan Favorite contest.…
Read MoreWhy smart TV OEMs should pay consumers to “plug in”
If TV OEMS are going to embrace smart TVs, they need a business model that fits this new paradigm. Up-front, one-burst revenue…
Read MoreKey strategies for the future of smart TVs
Just a year or two ago, the world of TV manufacturers was focused on transitioning from the tired horse of HD to…
Read MoreHollywood wants British ISP to block Usenet site
Hollywood has set its eyes on Newzbin2, an indexing site that facilitates movie and TV show downloads from Usenet servers. However, it's not going after the site directly, but is instead suing British ISP BT to have Newzbin2 blocked on the IP address level.…
Read MoreMac RSS reader roundup: Reeder, NetNewsWire Lite, and Pulp
For all the talk of social media replacing RSS, I still find it to be the best way to get news efficiently. A quick look at the Mac App Store shows quite a few RSS reader options, so here's a look at three of the best.…
Read MoreWhat does the journalism of the future look like?
We've spent so long consuming the news in fairly predictable formats that the new forms of journalism we are seeing all around us can be confusing. But these new forms have the potential to broaden the field immensely, and that is a good thing.…
Read MoreTaboola updates recommendation tools for publishers
Taboola is giving its publishers more control over the automated video recommendations that are served up on their websites. To highlight these changes and to take advantage of them, Taboola just launched a revamped website and has added new members to its senior management team.…
Read MoreBreaking Down Facebook’s Entertainment Strategy
This week's rumors about a possible Facebook hookup with Spotify and Zuckerberg's recent comments at e-G8 illustrate that Facebook is a company thinking hard about its role in the world of entertainment. The company, which is already a recommendation and curation force (it already drives a significant number of pageviews for video content both inside and outside its own walls), is likely to see its entertainment strategy evolve significantly this year and next; music is only one part of it.…
Read MoreAmazon: The Book Industry “In a Box”?
While most thought the biggest news out of Amazon's e-book business this week was the revelation that e-books now eclipse print books, it was the launch of the company's second genre imprint in the span of two weeks (and fifth imprint overall) that's the bigger deal.…
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