Amazon was already a vertically integrated company in many ways: It publishes books itself and provides a publishing platform for independent writers, for example. It also owns its own ...

But “celebrities are not some financial saving grace of traditional publishers,” Friedman told me. They can be meaningful contributors to a company’s bottom line, she said, but “they ...

The scientific community has begun to protest against the aggressive commercial practices of the major publishers, said Larivière, citing the example of the "Cost of Knowledge" campaign ...

Here is an overview of how publishers are re-evaluating their approach to apps, followed by three examples of the new ... there are a growing number of companies offering off-the-shelf app ...

Publishers are now challenged to establish online pay-per-view subscription fees to increase revenue. The New York Times Company, for example, as of March 28, 2011, launched a metered pricing system.

The negotiations mark one of the earliest examples of how Apple ... off-again commercial deals with tech companies like Meta, the owner of Facebook, publishers have grown wary of jumping into ...

The number of bankruptcies was nearly twice as high in 2013 as in 2012. The recession and the introduction of e-books have had a negative impact on publishing companies. Magazine and newspaper ...