Surging sales of these three videogame franchises have helped insulate Activision Blizzard (ATVI, 12) from the effects of the recession, and driven shares of this publisher of online, PC, console and handheld games 40% higher from lows hit in early January.
What is currently unclear, and also plays into the financial viability of this for both publisher and author, is whether authors will be offered an advance for their novels.
FORBES: Harper Voyager Opens The Door To Authors Without Agents, But Just A Crack
Twenty-five years ago this month, publisher Michael Tchong, and a few others, launched MacWeek, a newsweekly magazine focused on all things Apple and the developer community around the Macintosh computer.
Konami Digital Entertainment stepped in as a co-publisher of this game and has worked with inXile to release it to the masses.
FORBES: Game Veteran Brian Fargo Gives Arcade Classic Choplifter An HD Upgrade
As a former book store owner (my first entrepreneurial venture which I later sold) and a custom publisher, this news is bittersweet.
However he did not received this money from a publisher but an unknown printer in his hometown of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
Earlier this month, British publisher Gollancz secured the rights to three Elite: Dangerous tie-in novels via their Kickstarter project, without having to go through months of tedious negotiations.
FORBES: Gollancz Buys Tie-In Novel Rights To Elite: Dangerous
Did his publisher think this would put off ordinary readers?
This means that the publisher wholly owns the data.
FORBES: In Brave New World of Ad Sales, It's About Deep Audience Learning
We recently announced that Elevation Partners, a private equity firm, has become a minority shareholder in a newly formed company, Forbes Media, now the publisher of this magazine, Forbes.com and our other media properties.
Video game publisher Activision Blizzard this afternoon reported better-than-expected results for the third quarter.
FORBES: Activision Q3 Tops Guidance; Boosts Full Year Outlook
Map publisher Rand MacNally this week previewed a road atlas software product for the Palm m500 series of handheld.
Earlier this year the struggling newspaper publisher fought a proxy battle from a hedge fund pushing for big changes at the company.
"Their attitude is that we don't get it, we are flat-earth people, and they are in a hurry without time for all this, " says the publisher group's president, former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder.
On the publisher side, and this is contrarian, but I think portals have an advantage.
FORBES: The New Normal For Digital Marketing: Automated Ad Buying Hits Tipping Point
The game publisher hopes to ride this recent wave of attention when WCS Korea GSL begins April 4.
FORBES: Blizzard Establishes First Ever Global StarCraft II ESports Ranking System
Earlier this week, Stratfor, a publisher of intelligence analysis, was hacked by people claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous.
FORBES: Stratfor Offers Customers Identity Theft Protection After Hack
In this role I am focused on publisher relations, fundraising, marketing, product strategy, talent development and back of house management.
FORBES: The Rise of Female Chief Operating Officers: Meet Mashable's Sharon Feder
The publisher is so confident this strategy will resonate with readers, that it touts it at the end of each of its books.
FORBES: Forget Apple's iPad, Publishers Need To Worry About Tigers
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.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
HarperCollins is not the first publisher to come across this notion.
FORBES: Book Publisher HarperCollins Releases Kids' IPhone Apps
Among the speakers at the seafront dinner for the foreign press earlier this year was Peter Malhotra, publisher of the local English-language newspaper, the Pattaya Mail.
The University of California's dust-jackets really are at the cutting edge, and the woman manning the stall was predictably laid-back when this compliment was paid to the publisher's wares.
This time, Namco Bandai, publisher of the recent PS3 exclusive Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, is at the center of a pre-order fiasco involving an eBay merchant and a shortage of special Wizard Edition copies of the game.
FORBES: Namco Bandai Responds To 'Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch' Wizard's Edition Fiasco
"I'm on my fifth set of publisher's proofs for this 'Mother Goose' edition, " Mr. Orenstein said.
WSJ: Ravel| Mother Goose| New York Philharmonic| Arbie Orenstein
In the event of disagreement which cannot be resolved, the Publisher, as professor of this laboratory classroom experience, shall have the final decision, as with all Department-sponsored laboratory media courses.
Even as someone who works for a major publisher, I WANT to see this model succeed.
The publisher encrypts the request, at this stage deciding what the user can do with the content, depending on what the user has requested.
Then Kickstarter came along and a door opened this was FINALLY our chance to sidestep the publisher model and get financing directly from the people who want to play an Obsidian RPG.
FORBES: Obsidian Launches Original RPG 'Project Eternity' On Kickstarter
应用推荐