Dan Strempel

Recent Posts by Dan Strempel:

The Rise of Text Mining and Growing Corruption in STM Publishing

What's a few billion snippets among friends?

Topics: Media Industry Insights

The Pandemic, Disinformation and the Pace of Change in STM Publishing

For years, Simba Information’s Professional group has served the information needs of publishers large and small in the market for Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) research.

Topics: Education Media Industry Insights Simba Information

Professional E-Book Market Projected to Decline in 2020

Simba Information published its latest report Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2020-2024. The report found tepid growth in professional e-books for 2019, and the forecast for 2020 shows declining sales based on COVID-19 disruptions.

Topics: Media Simba Information

The Impact of COVID-19 on STM Publishing & Online Services

The global economic shock from the COVID-19 pandemic will immediately impact scientific, technical and medical publisher's transactional business such as books, individual journal sales, advertising and reprints promotion.

Topics: Media Industry Insights

University of California Pressures Elsevier to Bend on Open Access

All eyes in the scholarly professional publishing industry are on market leader Elsevier to see how the company will react to a decision by of a group of prominent University of California faculty to step away from journal editorial boards until the publisher agrees to restart negotiations with the 10-campus system on a new contract for access to Elsevier’ scholarly journals.

Topics: Media Industry Insights Simba Information

STM Publishing and the Rising Threat of Open Access Journals

Scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing exceeds $25 billion annually, and its leading competitors consistently post adjusted profit margins that exceed 30%, according to our research at Simba Information. 

However, these same STM publishers are facing disruption in the face of a movement to create open access to the scholarly research they publish. 

Topics: Education Media Industry Insights Simba Information

Scholarly & Professional E-Books Outgrow More Fashionable Trade Cousins

Mention the market for e-books and most folks flash to a vision of fashion-forward urbanites wielding the latest reading device or tablet while sipping a latte in the park.

Newspapers, magazines and bloggers love to discuss consumer e-books—it’s sexier, more connected to leisure, art, culture and how people read these days—but it is not the heart and soul of the e-book market.

Topics: Public Sector Education Media Simba Information