Publishing, Information Industry, and Information Management
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Publishing Technology plc: One-Stop Shopping for Print and Digital PublishingPublishing Technology plc (PT) was formed by the 2007 merger of VISTA International: long a key technology provider to the publishing community: and Ingenta plc, a provider of online services for Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) publishers. PT’s resulting digital platform and services offer interesting opportunities for publishers who wish to implement digital operations and build a better return on the investment in their content. Indeed, in today’s cost-conscious and digitally challenging climate, STM publishers give serious consideration to outsourcing digital operations in much the same way that they have done for print. With clients that include the BBC, and products that include semantic search engines, e-commerce, and strategic marketing services, PT is a market leader for the growing digital publishing services market.
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The Bureau of National Affairs: Life in the Shadow of the Major Legal PublishersThe Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) holds a unique position in the legal publishing industry. With total revenues of $352.2 million, $289 million (82%) of which comes from its core publishing operations, it is the largest legal publisher that hasn’t been gobbled up by one of the Big Three legal information players: Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters), Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis, and Wolters Kluwer. It provides analytical and practice-oriented information to lawyers, accountants, and compliance officers via over 350 separate products. Known more for its editorial prowess than its technological innovation, the company has recently turned a corner with a new delivery platform and new product models that are worth watching. BNA’s unique status as an employee-owned business complicates the long-standing question of whether it can and will remain independent in years to come.
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K-12 Education Market 2007: Key Trends and DynamicsThis report provides a snapshot view of the US K-12 Education segment. It examines the leading issues affecting suppliers in each market within K-12 Education and the factors influencing future market and supplier growth. Outsell’s coverage in this report includes sales to US states, school districts, and schools, and excludes the business-to-consumer K-12 education sector. Businesses serving the K-12 Education segment, investors, policymakers, education institutions, and other industry participants can use this publication to compare current activity and growth with historical performance.
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Global Intelligence Alliance Group Provides Complete Market Intelligence SystemsGlobal Intelligence Alliance (GIA) Group is a good example of a company providing an integrated approach to general market intelligence (MI). The company has a strong backbone in MI process consulting (its roots) and also offers ongoing MI training. Its integrated system combines software, content, analysis, and analyst hours in a subscription model. What differentiates it from other integrated MI systems is that it blends different content types, both internal and external, on a hosted software platform for a full turnkey MI system. GIA demonstrates rapid growth in the emerging integrated MI market.
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Document Delivery - Best Practices and Vendor ScorecardEven as information management (IM) faces fundamental changes and challenges resulting from new technologies and the phasing out of traditional library functions, classic questions persist. One topic we still get questions about at Outsell is document delivery. Who are the players? What’s new on the scene? What are others doing to fulfill the need for articles, patents, and other documents? How must information managers respond in a changing technological and user environment (“enterprise 2.0”) that persistently challenges how they handle copyright, distribution, integration, and process management? Outsell published reports in 2000 and 2003 canvassing the document delivery landscape. In response to our clients’ inquiries, this report refreshes our coverage of the topic.
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Mainstreaming K-12 Special Needs Students: Impact on Products and ServicesMainstreaming can be broadly defined as integrating students with language and/or learning disabilities into general education classes with non-disabled students, in order to benefit the children with disabilities. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 requires that all students be evaluated uniformly, rather than using different standards as in the past, and many districts have turned to mainstreaming in hopes of better preparing special needs students for annual progress evaluations. With an increase in the number of special needs students in general education classrooms, districts are looking for the best instructional strategies and methods for working with these students. Outsell developed this report to examine the trends and analyze the barriers impacting districts’ mainstreaming efforts, and to clarify for suppliers of special needs instruction and professional development how mainstreaming has affected the types of instructional materials and technology teachers use for these students in the classroom. The report also examines the impact of mainstreaming on teacher professional development.
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WashingtonPost.com Builds on Impressive StartWashingtonPost.com has long been a gold standard of US newspaper websites. It has won numerous awards, and it ranks highest in local penetration of its market among newspaper websites, having fought the good fight with Yahoo!, Google, and others for “local” readers. Still, the Post struggles, like all newspaper companies. While it is growing significantly online, its ad revenue growth has slowed and its audience doesn’t spend as much time on the site as the Post would like or as its ad revenue needs require. WashingtonPost.com is an example of a relatively successful news site in the throes of continual change. In Outsell’s opinion, all news publishers can learn from its initiatives.
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2008 Library Market Size, Share & Forecast ReportThis report focuses on libraries’ buying power and the trends affecting content spending by this $22.5 billion market. It is the first report of its kind to analyze the global library market for all types of libraries and information centers: traditional physical libraries as well as non-traditional centralized digital information centers and other kinds of centralized content management functions. This analysis provides useful total available market (TAM) information for publishers and information providers who sell into this marketplace, and is an essential tool for publishers and information providers that target the dynamic and changing library market and seek to understand its key trends and issues.
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Corporate Executive Board: Banking on Best PracticesCorporate Executive Board (CEB) has been the industry’s darling for many years, growing 20%-30% every quarter. It created a syndicated, replicable business model to harness corporate best practice information, and it has been a leader in demonstrating the value of targeting professionals’ roles in the corporate marketplace. The company was an early pioneer in harnessing peer-to-peer content creation as a precursor to what we now see in social networking markets. At 2007 revenues of $533 million, CEB is nearly half the size of Gartner. It saw record growth over a number of years; recently its growth rate has become more even and comparable to the overall market's. This report looks in detail at Corporate Executive Board as the company and product lines mature, and forecasts where Outsell expects the company to go from here.
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Legal Research Market Disruptors: Open Law Initiatives Join Earlier Generation of US Case Law AlternativesA flurry of activity among new and existing providers of US case law is raising anew the question of whether bigger change is afoot in the legal research space. This new level of activity is worth examining, not just for the effect these players will have on commercial legal research giants Thomson West, LexisNexis, and Wolters Kluwer, but also for identifying potential growth in end-user markets outside traditional legal research markets in the legal industry. This report takes an in-depth look at six companies: AltLaw.org, Collexis, Fastcase, Justia.com, PreCYdent, and VersusLaw.
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