As I write this article I’m surrounded by bookshelves loaded with books. Gazing at them looking for inspiration it becomes clear that there are two categories, those such as cookery books and reference books which get used many times, and those such as modern fiction which are really one time reads. With ‘real’ books we…
When we think of subscriptions we usually think of magazines and health clubs. From a business model perspective they both operate a similar model where we agree to commit to pay a periodic fee for a period of time in return for access to an often perishable service or product. When we dig beneath the…
Through the ages children the world over have used storytelling and game playing to learn and develop knowledge and judgement. Yet in everyday business we see so little focus on its use to help make sense of the increasingly complex and interlinked world that we live in. Latitude Research, who help clients create engaging content,…
Ideas for blog posts come from many sources. While I was travelling back from a recent meeting I happened to listen to the lunchtime current affairs programme which had a discussion on the plans of the Manchester Central Library to use the £60m refurbishment programme as an opportunity to review its collection of about 1m…
With the launch of the Google TV service in the UK imminent there are many views and opinions of the Google offering from a technology and functionality perspective. Many of them speculate how it’s rival, Apple, must now be racing to release its own TV offering. What is really interesting is that Apple has had its own Apple TV…
I just read ‘What’s The Future of the Sharing Economy‘ on Fast Company and it re-kindled some thinking about the business models that we’re seeing in the digital publishing world. Many of us are now used to receiving books, magazines and newspapers in a digital form, however, how is this impacting the sharing economy? Where…
It was interesting to hear today of the deal between Waterstones, one of the diminishing number of UK-wide book retailers, and Amazon, whereby Waterstones will have a digital section in their stores to help people try and buy Kindle devices and then select content. The two companies come at the same space, book retailing, from…
If you step back a moment and create an “if only …” list for you or your organisation and then look at its contents then it is likely that you’ll see an interesting trend and one which is important for our profession. You will likely see that your list is made up of offerings that…