Sunday, December 30, 2012
21 book publishing predictions for 2013
By CNu at December 30, 2012 3 comments
Labels: cognitive infiltration , consumerism , institutional deconstruction
it doesn't matter what ebooks cost to make
[P]roducing e-books costs more than you think. You’re paying for editors and cover design and, of course, for the book itself, and the mechanics of putting those things into a container are not the bulk of a book’s cost. Hence, e-books are always going to be close to their physical counterparts in cost.
By CNu at December 30, 2012 0 comments
Labels: information anarchy , institutional deconstruction , Peak Capitalism
Saturday, December 29, 2012
the future status of modernity's chief cognitive object
- Consensus: a scenario where e-books overwhelm and make obsolete the printed book
- Nostalgic: a scenario where printed books are still highly in demand and e-books haveproven to be a fad
- Privatization of the book: a scenario where printed books are vestigial to an ecology dominated by e-books
- Printed books thrive: a scenario where e-books and printed books exist in balance and have equal importance
- Which state of the system do you believe best describes the environment in which your library’s strategic thinking and planning will unfold?
- Which of these models of the future currently guides your strategic thinking and actions regarding printed books?
By CNu at December 29, 2012 13 comments
Labels: co-evolution , cultural darwinism , institutional deconstruction , What Now?
pearson is for dayyum sure loath to give up that paper book profit and associated value chain
Rank (2011) | Rank (2010) | Publishing Company (Group or Division) | Country | Mother Corp. or Owner | Country Mother Corp. | 2011 Revenue in $M | 2010 Revenues in $M |
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1 | 1 | Pearson | U.K. | Pearson | U.K. | $8,411 | $8,097 |
2 | 2 | Reed Elsevier | U.K./NL/U.S. | Reed Elsevier Corp. | U.K./NL/U.S. | $5,686 | $7,149 |
3 | 3 | Thomson Reuters | U.S. | The Woodbridge Company Ltd. | Canada | $5,435 | $5,637 |
4 | 4 | Wolters Kluwer | NL | Wolters Kluwer | NL | $4,360 | $4,719 |
5 | 6 | Hachette Livre | France | Lagardère | France | $2,649 | $2,873 |
6 | 8 | Grupo Planeta | Spain | Grupo Planeta | Spain | $2,304 | $2,427 |
7 | 7 | McGraw-Hill Education | U.S. | The McGraw-Hill Companies | U.S. | $2,292 | $2,433 |
8 | 5 | Random House | Germany | Bertelsmann AG | Germany | $2,274 | $3,844 |
9 | 11 | Holtzbrinck | Germany | Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck | Germany | $1,952 | $1,512 |
10 | 10 | Scholastic (corp.) | U.S. | Scholastic | U.S. | $1,906 | $1,912 |
11 | 9 | Cengage Learning | U.S. | Apax Partners et al. | U.S./Canada | $1,876 | $2,007 |
12 | 13 | Wiley | U.S. | Wiley | U.S. | $1,743 | $1,699 |
13 | 12 | De Agostini Editore | Italy | Gruppo De Agostini | Italy | $1,724 | $1,843 |
14 | 15 | Shueisha | Japan | Hitotsubashi Group | Japan | $1,714 | $1,597 |
15 | 16 | Kodansha | Japan | Kodansha | Japan | $1,551 | $1,498 |
16 | 17 | Shogakukan | Japan | Hitotsubashi Group | Japan | $1,444 | $1,441 |
17 | 33 | Readers' Digest | U.S. | RDA Holding Co. | U.S. | $1,438 | $1,460 |
18 | 14 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | U.S. | Education Media and Publishing Group Limited | U.S./Cayman Islands | $1,295 | $1,673 |
19 | 19 | Springer Science and Business Media | Germany | EQT and GIC Investors | Sweden, Singapore | $1,138 | $1,149 |
20 | 18 | HarperCollins | U.S. | News Corporation | U.S. | $1,100 (est.) | $1,269 |
21 | 20 | Informa | U.K. | Informa plc | U.K. | $1,069 | $1,039 |
22 | 21 | Gakken | Japan | Gakken Co. Ltd. | Japan | $1,043 | $956 |
23 | 22 | Oxford University Press | U.K. | Oxford University | U.K. | $1,004 | $941 |
24 | 24 | Grupo Santillana | Spain | PRISA | Spain | $936 | $852 |
25 | 23 | Bonnier | Sweden | The Bonnier Group | Sweden | $909 | $927 |
26 | 26 | Kadokawa Publishing | Japan | Kadokawa Holdings Inc. | Japan | $904 | $794 |
27 | 27 | Simon & Schuster | U.S. | CBS | U.S. | $787 | $791 |
28 | 28 | Egmont Group | Denmark/ Norway | Egmont International Holding A/S | Denmark | $703 | $792 |
29 | 29 | Woongjin ThinkBig | Korea | Woongjin Holding | Korea | $685 | $723 |
30 | 25 | RCS Libri | Italy | RCS Media Group | Italy | $667 | $805 |
31 | 31 | Klett | Germany | Klett Gruppe | Germany | $594 | $617 |
32 | 32 | Cornelsen | Germany | Cornelsen | Germany | $558 | $584 |
33 | 34 | Mondadori | Italy | The Mondadori Group | Italy | $506 | $549 |
34 | 35 | GeMS - Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol | Italy | Messagerie Italiane | Italy | $494 | $525 |
35 | 39 | Lefebvre Sarrut | France | Frojal | France | $467 | $430 |
36 | 36 | Harlequin | Canada | Torstar Corp. | Canada | $450 | $468 |
37 | 37 | Sanoma | Finland | Sanoma WSOY | Finland | $446 | $464 |
37 | 40 | China Education and Media Group (form. Higher Education Press) | China (PR) | China Education and Media Group | China (PR) | $445 | $393 |
39 | 38 | Media Participations | France | Media Participations | Belgium | $442 | $434 |
40 | 46 | Abril Educação | Brazil | Abril Group | Brazil | $411 | $308 |
41 | 47 | Perseus | U.S. | Perseus | U.S. | $350 | $300 |
42 | 43 | Westermann Verlagsgruppe | Germany | Medien Union (Rheinland-Pfalz Gruppe) | Germany | $339 | $342 |
43 | 41 | La Martinière Groupe | France | La Martinière Groupe | France | $335 | $377 |
44 | 44 | Bungeishunju | Japan | n.a. | Japan | $331 | $337 |
45 | 55 | AST | Russia | Privately owned | Russia | $330 | $215 |
46 | 45 | Groupe Gallimard | France | Madrigall | France | $329 | $320 |
47 | 42 | Shinchosha | Japan | n.a. (privately owned) | Japan | $319 | $364 |
48 | 49 | Kyowon | Korea | Kyowon | Korea | $298 | $273 |
49 | 48 | Weka | Germany | Weka Firmengruppe | Germany | $282 | $277 |
50 | 52 | Saraiva | Brazil | Saraiva | Brazil | $267 | $249 |
51 | 51 | Haufe Gruppe | Germany | Privately owned | Germany | $269 | $256 |
52 | 56 | Editora FTD | Brazil | Editora FTD | Brazil | $226 | $214 |
53 | 54 | Groupe Albin Michel | France | Groupe Albin Michel | France | $216 | $219 |
54 | 58 | EKSMO | Russia | Privately owned | Russia | $195 | $200 |
By CNu at December 29, 2012 0 comments
what impact will ebooks have on the global publishing industry?
By CNu at December 29, 2012 0 comments
the impact of technology on the recording industry
By CNu at December 29, 2012 0 comments
Labels: co-evolution , consumerism , cultural darwinism
why did the recording industry really collapse?
By CNu at December 29, 2012 9 comments
Labels: information anarchy , Living Memory
collapse of record companies not the collapse of music
Worldwide Recording Industry Revenues from Physical: $33.1 billion (2006), $30.6 billion (2007), $27.5 billion (2008), $24.6 billion (2009), $22.2 billion (2010), $19.9 billion (2011) |
By CNu at December 29, 2012 3 comments
Labels: industrial ecosystems , institutional deconstruction
Friday, December 28, 2012
federal reserve bank social media monitoring solution...,
By CNu at December 28, 2012 2 comments
Labels: banksterism , clampdown
sytematically dangerous institutions (SDI)
By CNu at December 28, 2012 1 comments
Labels: banksterism , Obamamandian Imperative
the drug war is a joke...,
By CNu at December 28, 2012 0 comments
Labels: banksterism , Livestock Management
too big to jail?
By CNu at December 28, 2012 1 comments
Labels: banksterism
Thursday, December 27, 2012
i cry therefore i am...,
By CNu at December 27, 2012 4 comments
exploring rhythm and brain function
By CNu at December 27, 2012 0 comments
Labels: music?
1922: Why I Quit Being So Accomodating
By CNu at December 27, 2012 0 comments
Labels: common sense
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
imagination also comes from the moving centre
By CNu at December 26, 2012 3 comments
Labels: music?
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
because you owe...,
By CNu at December 25, 2012 2 comments
Labels: work
with real emotional content...,
By CNu at December 25, 2012 1 comments
Labels: work
remember...,
By CNu at December 25, 2012 0 comments
Labels: work
Monday, December 24, 2012
lying
There is a definite obstacle, a definite reason why we cannot have consciousness as we are. This chief obstacle in the way of development is lying. I have already mentioned lying, but we must speak more about it, for we do not know what lying means because we have never studied this question seriously. Yet the psychology of lying is really the most important part of the study of the human being. If a man could be described as a zoological type, he would be described as a lying animal.
I shall leave out all external lying and take only a man's lying to himself about himself. This is the reason why we are in the state in which we are now, and why we cannot come to a better, a higher, a more powerful, more effective state of consciousness. According to the system we are now studying we cannot know truth, because truth can be reached only in objective consciousness. So we cannot define what truth is; but if we take it that lying is the opposite of truth, we can define lying.
The most serious lying is when we know perfectly well that we do not and cannot know the truth about things and yet never act accordingly. We always think and act as though we knew the truth. This is lying.
When I know that I do not know something, and at the same time say that I know, or act as though I knew it, it is lying. For instance, we know nothing about ourselves, and we really know that we know nothing, yet we never recognize or admit the fact; we never confess it even to ourselves, we act and think and speak as though we knew who we are. This is the origin, the beginning of lying. When we understand this and follow this line, and when we try to connect this idea with everything we think, everything we say, everything we do, we will begin to remove the obstacles which lie on the way to consciousness. But the psychology of lying is much more difficult than we think, because there are many different kinds of lying and many very subtle forms hard to discover in ourselves. In others we see them comparatively easily, but not in ourselves.
Q. If we do not know what truth is, how do we know when we lie?
A. You know that you cannot know the truth, and if you say you do know, or can know it, it would be a lie, because no one can know the truth in the state in which we are. Do not think philosophically, take it in relation to facts. People speak about everything as though they knew. If you ask a man whether there are people on the moon, he will have an opinion about it. And so with everything else. We have opinions about everything, and all these opinions are lying, particularly about ourselves. We do not know about states of consciousness, or the different functions, or the speed of functions, or their relation to one another. We do not know about how functions are divided. We know nothing, yet we think we know about ourselves. All we have is opinions, and they are all lies.
Q. If all opinions are lies, should we avoid opinions?
A. You must know their value. The first lie we tell ourselves is when we say 'I'. It is a lie because in saying 'I' we presume certain things: we presume a certain unity and a certain power. And if I say 'I' today and say 'I' to-morrow, it is supposed to be the same 'I', when in reality there is no connection between them. We are in this present state because of certain obstacles or certain facts in ourselves, and the most important fact that we do not understand is that we have no right to say 'I', for it will be a lie. When you begin to observe yourself you will see that it is really so: there are 'I's in you which do not know one another and never come into contact. For instance, begin to study your likes and dislikes and you will see that you can like one thing one moment and like another thing another moment, and the two are so opposed to one another that you will realize at once that those 'I's never meet. If you observe your decisions you will see that one 'I' decides and another has to carry out the decision, and this one is either unwilling to do it or never heard about it. If you find one thing one does not lie to oneself about you will be very exceptional. Being surrounded by these lies, born and educated in these lies, we cannot be any different from what we are; we are just the result, the product of this lying.
By CNu at December 24, 2012 0 comments
Labels: What IT DO Shawty...
imagination...,
Q. When you say 'imagination', do you mean imagining something to be true, not drawing pictures?
A. Imagination has many aspects; it may be just ordinary day-dreams or, for instance, imagining non-existent powers in oneself. It is the same thing, it works without control, it runs by itself.
Q. Each one is self-deception?
A. One does not take it as self-deception: one imagines something, then believes it and forgets that it was imagination. Studying man in his present state of sleep, absence of unity, mechanicalness and lack of control, we find several other wrong functions which are the result of his state—in particular, lying to himself and to other people all the time. The psychology of ordinary man could even be called the study of lying, because man lies more than anything else; and as a matter of fact, he cannot speak the truth. It is not so simple to speak the truth; one has to learn how to do it, and sometimes it takes a very long time.
Q. I was interested in the question of imagination. I suppose it means that in the ordinary application of the word one was using the wrong meaning?
A. In the ordinary meaning of imagination the most important factor is missed, but in the terminology of this system we begin with what is most important. The most important factor in every function is: 'Is it under our control or not?' So when imagination is under our control we do not even call it imagination; we call it by various names—visualization, creative thinking, inventive thinking—you can find a name for each special case. But when it comes by itself and controls us so that we are in its power, then we call it imagination.
Again, there is another side of imagination which we miss in ordinary understanding. This is that we imagine non-existent things—non-existent capacities, for instance. We ascribe to ourselves powers which we do not have; we imagine ourselves to be self-conscious although we are not. We have imaginary powers and imaginary self-consciousness and we imagine ourselves to be one, when really we are many different 'I's. There are many such things that we imagine about ourselves and other people. For instance, we imagine that we can 'do', that we have choice; we have no choice, we cannot 'do', things just happen to us.
So we imagine ourselves, really. We are not what we imagine ourselves to be.
Q. Is there any difference between imagination and day-dreaming?
A. If you cannot control day-dreaming, it means that it is part of imagination; but not all of it. Imagination has many different sides. We imagine non-existent states, nonexistent possibilities, non-existent powers.
Q. Could you give me a definition of negative imagination?
A. Imagining all kinds of unpleasant things, torturing oneself, imagining all the things that might happen to you or other people—things like that; it takes different forms. Some people imagine different illnesses, some imagine accidents, others imagine misfortunes.
By CNu at December 24, 2012 0 comments
Labels: Livestock Management
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