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Cross Media
Publishing
Steve Paxhia
Director- Publishing
Practice
The Gilbane Group
Bill Rosenblatt
Senior Analyst
The Gilbane Group
About Gilbane Group
• Consulting and market research firm
• New research initiatives on various aspects
of digital publishing
• Collaboration
• Beyond the E-Book - Cross-Media Publishing
Strategies
• Digital Magazine and Newspapers
• Enterprise Rights Management
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Outline
• Research Study Highlights
• Digital Magazines and Newspapers
• Collaboration
• Cross-Media Publishing
• Strategic Trends in Cross-Media Publishing
• Search and Discovery
• E-Books and Devices
• Content Infrastructure
• Conclusions
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Strong Growth in Digital
Periodicals Key Statistics
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Industry projecting significant growth
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Trends
• Digital editions and websites becoming
complementary
• Search becoming an important reason for
preferring digital environment
• Prediction- more publications will offer archiving
• Prediction- Publications will begin to work
together to allow their readers to find more
information on topics of keen interest
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Collaboration and Community in
Book Publishing
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Collaboration Data Summary
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Trends
• Collaboration and community technology
being deployed to connect customers with
the publication and with each other…
• Advertisers report being happy with the
creative avenues being provided by digital
advertising and also like the measurability
and rapid feedback
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Search & Discovery Trends
• The Discovery Paradox
• Professionally selected, edited, produced content
generally not findable online
• Leads users to “good enough” free alternatives
(Wikipedia)
• SEO
• Constant expense, black art
• Arms race with diminishing returns
• Limited impact anyway
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Search & Discovery: Rights
• Key obstacle in solving Discovery Paradox
• Not the same thing as “DRM”
• Hugely complex problem
• Solutions can be expensive, disruptive
• Many publishers still in denial
• Solutions
• Technical (ACAP, text fingerprinting)
• Ad hoc licensing
• Litigation
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Search & Discovery
Predictions
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E-Books
Lessons from Music Industry
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Cross-Media Infrastructure
• CMI 1.0
• Install centralized content management
system
• (that’s it… hope it works… usually fails)
• CMI 2.0
• Federated technology infrastructure
• 80/20 rule on enterprise-level functionality
• Investment in process, organization, and
skill changes
• Content creation treated independently
from output format (not just XML…)
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CMI Example:
• Before:
• Consumer Reports magazine editorial staff
• Ad hoc repurposing for books, website
• Very limited product set
• Media Neutral initiative
• Reorganization of editorial by subject matter
• Publication groups become “customers” of
editorial groups
• Cross-media content development the norm, not
the exception
• Technology mostly unchanged
• After:
• New product development much easier
• A thousand online flowers bloom
• Next up: technology, now that processes
and organization are in place!
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Cross-Media Infrastructure
Predictions
• Growing awareness of product
planning
• Product/feature plans drive requirements
• No more “build it and they will come”
• Editorial will lead the way
• Processes, organization, skills first
• Technology close second
• Metadata problem taken more
seriously
• “MLS” skill set
• Taxonomies
• Tools and processes
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Prediction
• Publishers will soon seek to be involved in
the reader’s complete information cycle
• Browse
• Search in context
• Link to related data
• Present new information based on algorithms
that analyze past information consumption
• Use Geography data to present more pertinent
info
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Giving Readers the Best Choices
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