Gilbane Research Report - Digital Magazine Editions - (Page 128) 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. ©2008 Gilbane Group, Inc. 128 http://gilbane.com http://www.drmwatch.com http://gilbane.com
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