As analyst Thomas Husson, of Forrester Research, noted, "There will be for some time a chicken-and-egg issue: publishers and brands need reach to develop VR content and consumers want content to be ready (if they are going) to spend a premium on these new VR headsets".
Thomas Husson, an analyst at Forrester Research, says "There will be for some time a chicken-and-egg issue: publishers and brands need reach to develop VR content and consumers want content to be ready (if they are going) to spend a premium on these new VR headsets.
When oversupply is no longer an issue, publishers may be able to gain some (if limited) leverage in the conversation.
"We all need to take a position on these issues," publisher S. Anand, said during a panel on the literature of protest on Sunday.
Bill Grueskin, a former editor of mine, now at Columbia University, joined some colleagues in producing an excellent report on the economic issues publishers face.
The Silicon Alley Reporter, a magazine known for its unabashed boosterism of New York's new media entrepreneurs, has published its last issue, its publisher, Jason McCabe Calacanis, said last week.
MyPickList will take care of the accounting and issue the publisher a check.
[NYT] Publishers Weekly returned to the issue of publishers' withdrawing their e-books from library lending, off of the announcement by Penguin last week that "it was disabling library e-book lending on the Kindle and pulling its latest e-book titles from all library lending platforms".
A Swedish edition, titled Galaxy, appeared from September 1958 to June 1960 (19 issues); the publisher is unknown, though it is known to be the same company that published the Swedish edition of Mad.
E-books have made price an issue for publishers who are weighing the timing of a paperback.
