"The fact that they didn't act more quickly is mind-boggling, " says Bob L. Scherman, publisher of Satellite Business News.
"Fox is really in need of some good solid drama and comedy development, " says Jack Myers, publisher of Media Business Reports, an industry newsletter.
"It would be a mistake for NBC to try to be all things to all people, " says Jack Myers, publisher of Media Business Reports, an industry newsletter.
Fans also know that any kind of reboot is, in part, a business decision for the comic book publisher.
Kleinfelds success was primarily due to a little old lady working the sales floor and running the business, says Peter Grimes, publisher of the bridal industry trade magazine Vows.
Under the plan approved in principle by the board Wednesday night, publishing assets such as the Journal, the Times of London, the New York Post and scores of other papers along with the HarperCollins book publisher and the education business, will be spun off as a separately traded company that is yet to be named.
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His briefcase bulges with the incessant output of the business-books division that every struggling publisher has now set up.
"His '7 Habits' was the first of the megaselling personal-organization books, " said Adrian Zackheim, publisher of Portfolio, a business imprint owned by Pearson PLC's Penguin Group (USA).
These conditions -- including restrictions on collaboration with fellow publishers and increased federal auditing and reporting requirements -- will increase publisher expenses and slow their business decisions at the very time when publishers need to become faster, nimbler competitors.
"Reading between the lines, it appears the IRS doesn't want people to file this form, " observes Mark Luscombe, principal federal tax analyst for tax publisher CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business.
The publisher of the world's top business magazine leapt off a 55-foot cliff into water after his fourth Red Stripe.
Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp business owns the News of the World's publisher News International, is due to arrive in the UK to take charge of handling the phone-hacking crisis.
Maybe because he is in the business of storytelling, Richard Desmond, a British publisher who owns Express Newspapers and other media properties, believes in promoting philanthropy.
Does every software publisher really want to get into the data center business?
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The LEGO Group is the latest video game publisher to venture into this free-to-play business with its LEGO Universe massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
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But this obliges publishers to essentially run two businesses at once: a traditional publisher that sells bound books to stores and an electronic business that sells e-books online.
The largest publisher of romance titles has seen more of its paperback business disappear than it has been able to replace with a rise in ebook sales so far.
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Companies that have achieved critical mass in terms of advertiser, publisher and consumer base, product portfolio, technology and business teams, are going to be able to ride the wave.
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The shrinkage of the printed book business - particularly in non-fiction - has also led the publisher setting up ad-funded websites Honest John - for car enthusiasts, the Complete University Guide and home-grown veg site Allotments.
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David Robinson, publisher of the Nilson Report, says there may be a business opportunity for banks in short-term, low-balance loans, which often carry higher interest rates.
The publishing company will include newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, the HarperCollins book publisher, Australian TV assets and its fledgling for-profit education business, Amplify.
But it set off jitters among those in the search business who worry that it represents another step by Google to become a Web publisher as well as a search engine.
By the time he was named publisher in 1979, he had held a variety of jobs on both the business and the editorial sides.
's MySpace and Time Warner 's AOL could theoretically take their business away from DoubleClick as well, given that Google has begun transforming into a rival publisher via sites like YouTube and its Blogger network.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace and Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) AOL could theoretically take their business away from DoubleClick as well, given that Google has begun transforming into a rival publisher via sites like YouTube and its Blogger network.
Most recently, he was vice president of Google's worldwide Partner Business Solutions group, where he was responsible for advertising platforms and services for Google's publisher and commerce partners.
The game publisher recently laid off about 240 employees and completely exited the kids videogame market (a business that the company was originally built upon) as part of a restructuring.
"Ultimately, it is a matter for the court to decide on the definition of a relevant publisher based on assessment of the facts, in accordance with the three interlocking tests - course of business, range of authors and editorial control, " said a DCMS spokeswoman.
As for business model, Edmodo is not charging for teachers or students to use the service, but sees potential revenue in publisher promotions of classroom textbooks or materials.
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