Mr. Thompson was involved in expanding the BBC's digital and global presence, areas that have become more crucial to the Times Company's strategy in the face of significant challenges to the print newspaper.
From a manufacturing perspective, the size of the 0201 package poses significant challenges to the printed circuit board (PCB) assembly process.
E-books now account for more than 15 percent of publishers' revenue, posing a challenge to the dominance of print in the long run and leaving the future of brick-and-mortar bookstores in doubt.
Most of the discussion of the book crisis focuses on the challenge to print from new technologies – blogs, the Kindle, Google Books Search – and from the ease with which one can buy used, remaindered and hugely discounted books online (sales for which the writer gets no royalties, by the way).
As the former is cost-intensive [1] and the latter may involve machine-based media analysis (e.g., text indexing for search or semantic clustering of texts) next to usability considerations [2], content owners face the challenge to safeguard the information contained within the print assets during transference from the analog to the digital domain.
The e-book may be confined to a narrow market like the last innovation to try, and fail, to challenge the potency of print: the audiobook.
The company also holds contests, such as the Art Print Challenge, to help give designers more exposure.
"For anyone in the media who would like to say that we should not prosecute this, I challenge them to print or cite what was written there word for word.
But the second quarter also showed how challenged the print advertising market remained.
(It has been a while since a business magazine has raised its rate base amid the challenges the print media are facing).
