Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Conclusions

The Authors
Steve Paxhia
Steve Paxhia is Director, Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice, at The Gilbane
Group, a consulting practice focused upon the strategies and technologies employed by
commercial and enterprise publishing professionals. He assists small publishing
technology companies in turning their ideas into profitable businesses and larger
companies in assessing their strategy and current performance and then helping to
accelerate their growth. In the past ten years, Steve has worked with more than 30
companies by helping refine their strategic plans, raise capital, devise go-to-market
plans, and make and integrate acquisitions. Steve also mentors a number of CEOs and
offers training on board meeting preparation. He is the co-author of studies covering
Digital Book Publishing, Digital Magazine and Newspaper Publishing, and
Collaboration and Social Computing.
Before joining the Gilbane Group, Steve founded several successful consulting practices
and served as Chairman of Rovia - a start-up that developed secure fully featured
eBooks for the college market. Steve has considerable experience with custom
publishing, licensing of intellectual property, electronic publishing workflow and
technology, and EDI. During his 15 years in College Publishing, Steve developed
significant experience in Marketing and Sales Management and was the founder of the
publishing industry's Pubnet e-commerce and information system. Steve was CEO of
Inso Corporation. Under his leadership, Inso grew from a 35-person division of
Houghton Mifflin Company to a 1000 person public company with sales of $100
million dollars. He has spoken on numerous industry panels and has presented to area
forums for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Bill Rosenblatt
Bill Rosenblatt is a Senior Analyst for the Gilbane Group and a recognized authority on
digital media technologies, including content management, digital rights management,
cross-media publishing, online content distribution, and content production systems,
as well as on issues related to intellectual property in the online world. He is the author
of Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology (John Wiley & Sons, 2001)
and managing editor of the Jupitermedia newsletter DRM Watch
(www.drmwatch.com). Bill’s previous career included a stint as VP of Technology and
New Media at McGraw-Hill's trade magazine division, where he was responsible for
implementing the business’ vertical market web portal strategy, including
AviationNow.com, an information portal for the aviation industry. He was also Director
of Publishing Systems at Times Mirror Co. His consulting work has included an ile
strategy project for a leading news periodical.
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