I was listening to a podcast by the National Association of Independent Schools called the Trustee Table. A guest on one episode used the term “permanent wh...

I have created a yearly video for my video channel, Publishing Defined, about topics that will predominate in the upcoming year. I have been pleased to have ...

The tyranny of the urgent. Putting out fires. The daily grind. Getting it done. We have lots of names for what consumes most of our day. Rightly so, most of ...

Two Nobel Prizes in Literature were awarded today due to last year's controversies. Are awards, big or small, worth the money and effort to publishers and au...

I love to collect quotes. I have probably amassed about 1,500 from years of reading and web browsing. One of the quotes I love is, “All thing change and we m...

I have been pleased with the response to my monthly blog posts dealing with writing and publishing. I have gotten some great feedback. I am taking a detour t...

Metadata, I fear, is like talking about health insurance premiums or cable bills. People understand it is important to be informed but glaze over as the conv...

I am happy to say that this June will be a busy month for me. I am speaking four different times at three different conferences on the East Coast. I love spe...

Corporate and organizational mergers have been around as long as there have been companies. They have been a mainstay of my career in publishing, back to the...

I continue to be a huge fan of podcasting and audiobooks. Seems I am more an auditory leaner, or I have just been trained this way to maximize by free time o...

Johnny Cash would have likely not have had an opinion about Plan S, but everyone else seems to. If it Is not on your radar screen, Plan S is an initiative fo...

I realized 2019 is the 25th anniversary of the start of the Internet as people think of it today. It all started with Mozilla in early 1994 (Thank you Marc A...

As the year draws to an end, people look to turn a page. Resolutions are being prepared. Summations of 2018 are being written. I am preparing my Trends for 2...

I must admit I am not a big emoji person. Maybe I will do a :) everyone once in awhile to ensure my meaning cannot be misconstrued. I vaguely became aware of...

I spoke with a friend the other day. She is middle aged, works in a professional position, and seems media savvy during our conversations. I mentioned a pod...

Artificial Intelligence or AI is having a moment. Much like blockchain and metrics and… But the moment has been around for a decade and continues to heat up ...

In 2004, I read a great biography (pre-Hamilton) by Ron Chernow. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller is a great look at the man and his monopolies. Spoile...

If we used a time machine to go way back to 1985, there would be precious few content types in scholarly publishing. They would be dominated by journal artic...

There is an endless array of content forms in the scholarly publishing world. The classic peer reviewed original research journal article. But there is als...

I realized the other day that the discussion about subscription versus open access is still active with many people. I think, all in all, open has won, that ...