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SIIA
Announcements:
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Jonathan Miller, CEO of America Online;
Tom Glocer; CEO
of Reuters and
Brewster Kahle,
Director and Co-founder of the Internet Archive are
confirmed speakers for the 2004 Information Industry
Summit (IIS).
Other
industry leaders scheduled to speak include
Christine Varney,
Pat Kenealy,
Diana Noble,
Martin Nishenholtz,
Steven Rattner
and many others.
Click here to take advantage of early-bird
rates and register for
IIS -
January 27, 2004, New York City
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Come see a Brown Bag lunch panel via VideoConference at
an office near you.
Holland & Knight will be broadcasting the December 3 Brown
Bag Panel on "Selling Digital Content to Consumers"
from their Chicago Office to their local offices in 18 US
cities.
Click here to register for the Brown Bag - either in
person or via videoconferencing.
Selling Digital Content to Consumers
- December 3,
2003, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, Chicago
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D&B to participate in Brown Bag Lunch Panel on
Pay-Per-View Business Models
- Adam Bernacki, Leader of Electronic Licensing at D&B
will join the panel entitled -
Subscription, Ad-Supported, Paid Search….BUT Where is the
Pay-Per-View Business Model in the Mix?
on
November 19, 2003, 11:30 am-1:30 pm, New York City.
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Contracts in the Information Industry IV | Peter
Marx, editor -
If you're doing business in the information industry, the
right
agreement can make the difference between success and
failure. Here in one place, are template agreements from
leading industry companies providing examples of forms for
content licensing and distribution, web hosting, linking,
database use, web site development, copyright
authorization, branding and marketing, click wraps and
dozens of other relationships. All agreements are also
provided on an enclosed CD -- in Microsoft Word format --
to facilitate your own drafting. (October, 2003)
258 pages plus CD-ROM, hard-copy only
SIIA Member Price:
$50.00,
download order form
Non-Member Price:
$395.00,
download order form
or contact
Anne Griffith
at 202-789-4469 to order by credit card
¤ SIIA would like to thank
The Jordan, Edmiston
Group, Inc.
(JEGI) for their generous contribution to the SIIA
Internship fund as JEGI donated the profits from their
First Annual Business
Information Executive Forum held on November 13.
The outstanding event attracted a stellar line-up of
industry executives as both speakers and attendees.
Attendees had the pleasure of listening to top CEOs from
the Information Industry and top executives focused on
financial services discuss their thoughts on the difficult
environment of the past two years and their thoughts on
current opportunities.
¤ China Trade Mission - SIIA is planning for a
contingent of senior executives from the Information
Industry to visit China for a trade mission in the spring
that will focus on opportunities and partners in China. If
your company is interested in potentially participating
and having a senior executive join the mission, please
contact
Jeff Cutler.
¤ If you missed the October 22 Brown Bag Lunch Panel
on the "Success of Paid Search and it's Affect on Content
Companies",
click here to
read a review from Shore Communications below.
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industry news.
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Industry News:
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Comtex Expands Strategic Alliance With Pinnacor
(11/5) | PRNewswire via Yahoo!Finance
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Dow Jones to Change Way of Counting Journal Subscribers
(11/3) | The Wall Street Journal Online via Yahoo!Finance
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Assessing Time Warner's Subscribers-Only Online Strategy
(11/3) | AdAge.com
¤ Free
Content Becoming Thing of the Past for UK's Online
Newspaper Sites
(11/3) | Online Journalism Review
¤ Yahoo shutters enterprise software unit (10/31) |
CNET
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EMC's shift into content management (10/20) | Internetnews.com
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The risks of sending work offshore (10/20) |
Information Week
Member Company
News:
Please send news and press releases to
James Kim
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Dow Jones Reports Tax Refund and Increases Third Quarter
2003 Reported Earnings
(11/14)
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Dow
Jones Newswires Selects IX Partners for Tool Kit That
Simplifies Management of Dow Jones Feed
(11/12)
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Wolters Kluwer
Third Quarter 2003 Trading Update
(11/12)
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Standard
& Poor’s To Take Over Smith Barney's Global Equity Indices
(11/12)
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Innodata Announces Third Quarter 2003 Results (11/11)
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Venture-Backed M&A Activity Remains Stable in Q3 (11/10)
¤ Avantt
Consulting To Receive Award - Announcement To Be Aired on
CNN’s Headline News Network (11/6)
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FindLaw to Provide Online Lawyer Directory in Kiplinger’s
Home & Business Attorney and Kiplinger’s WILLPower
Software (11/6)
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Creative Solutions Announces 23rd Annual Users' Conference
In Orlando, Florida (11/5)
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The Wall Street Journal Announces New Integrated Print and
Online Sales and Marketing Initiatives
(11/3)
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Five Major Publishers
Announce Settlement in Copyright Infringement Suit against
Collegiate Copies
(11/3)
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Dialog Adds Exclusive
Health, Disease Statistics to Medical Information
Collection
(10/31)
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The McGraw-Hill Companies declares
quarterly dividend
(10/30)
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Thomson Reports Third-Quarter EPS up
21% to $0.47; Adjusted EPS Climbs 13% to $0.43, with
Profit Increases in All Market Groups (10/30)
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Thomson Increases Quarterly Dividend (10/30)
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Wolters Kluwer's three-year strategy
to deliver improved value to shareholders (10/30)
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Factiva and Verity Partner to Improve Global Enterprises'
Intellectual Capital Management (10/28)
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The McGraw-Hill Companies reports 7.1% EPS increase from
continuing operations for third quarter of 2003
(10/23)
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Copyright Clearance
Center Adds Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Journals to its
Digital Reuse Content Offerings
(10/23)
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Microsoft Office System to Include LexisNexis Legal
Research (10/21)
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Factiva Integrates Its Services With the Microsoft Office
System
(10/21)
¤ Jordan,
Edmiston Completes Sale of Sabot Publishing to Active
Interest Media (10/15)
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Media General Sells Its Media General Financial Services
Subsidiary (10/14)
Industry Features
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What is RSS? | Really
Strategies, Inc.
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Print Profit Goes Online: What WSJ's Counting of Web Users
Means to Publishing (11/10) | Shore Communications
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New Research by EPS Market Monitor
Ltd Portrays Slower Growth but Durable Profitability in
STM Publishing (11/10) - A new study of the
scientific, technical and medical (STM) information market
has found that although growth is slowing, and underlying
demand in the core academic research market may be
shrinking, publishers in this segment continue to
demonstrate an ability to maintain attractive margins
through the ups and downs of economic cycles. The study -
the first in an ongoing "EPS Market Monitor" research
program from Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) -
estimates current market growth at 3% per year, down
considerably from historic rates. At the same time,
however, leading industry players are performing well;
profit margins of the three market leaders (Elsevier,
Kluwer Health, and Thomson Scientific & Healthcare)
averaged 27% in 1H03.
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Jumping on the Office Bandwagon (11/7) |
Outsell's
e-briefs(sm) - Several recent announcements highlight
the potential of Microsoft Office 2003's XML capabilities:
- OneSource has introduced a series of "Catalyst Modules"
that are designed to ease the integration of OneSource
company information products into Office applications such
as document templates. Typical Office applications such as
account plans or financial spreadsheets can be tagged to
receive content from OneSource data fields; the templates
are refreshed with OneSource data in much the same way
that the "mail merge" function populates templates with
users' internal data.
- EDGAR Online, the distributor of SEC filings, is also
enabling its data for links to Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets. Both OneSource and Edgar Online are making
use of XBRL, an implementation of XML tagging language
that specifies tags for specific accounting terms.
- Alacritude's article database, eLibrary, is now linked
to the Office "research pane," allowing quick access to
the eLibrary database for searches. Searching and
accessing abstracts are free, and subscription access to
full text articles is offered at an introductory 25
percent discount.
The OneSource and Edgar implementations are examples of
where this Office capability can really take off. People
whose workflow involves populating Word or Excel documents
with external content now have options for doing this
quickly and painlessly. This is a great new playing field
for savvy content deployment professionals. They should be
on the lookout for users with this type of workflow
application, and bring their expertise to bear on
governance, standard-setting, and building links to
external content.
Outsell's
e-briefs (sm)
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Digital Facsimile Publishing Takes New Steps
(11/03) |
Greenhouse Associates Newsletter
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Quiet Lessons: How Professional Content Services are
Learning from Paid Search (10/27) | Shore
Communications - At the SIIA Content Division's Brown Bag
Lunch on "The Success of Paid Search: How Does it Affect
Content Companies?", panelists from ad placement services
and aggregators wrestled with what's really working with
contextual ad services, but it was the quiet comments from
Ovid that deserve our closest attention. Players most
familiar with premium content used in major institutions
are beginning to look at ad placement services and are
realizing that there are key lessons for them to apply to
their own operations. Purchasing and using professional
content may never be the same.
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In the Move from Free to Fee, Where Lies B2B? -
Interview with eMeta's
Jonathan Lewin (9/03)
| eContent Magazine
People on the Move:
Please send news about comings
and goings to
Jeff Cutler
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Jon Titus Named Senior Technical Editor Of ECN Magazine
(11/10)
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Center for Financial Research & Analysis Appoints Bruce
Fador as Managing Director
(11/10)
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The McGraw-Hill
Companies names Mark E. Mooney Senior Vice President and
Chief Information Officer for McGraw-Hill Education
(11/6)
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Veronis Suhler Stevenson Names Callagy, Waldman, Chen and
Bainbridge Managing Directors
(11/5)
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Wolters Kluwer appoints Kathy Baker as Senior Vice
President Human Resources
(11/4)
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ProQuest Executive Carolyn Dyer Named One of Top Michigan
Women in Computing (10/31)
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Thomson Financial Enhances Sales Team In Europe (10/27)
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Wolters Kluwer names Rolv Eide as new CEO for Legal, Tax &
Business Europe (10/24)
Government Affairs/Public Policy
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SIIA's Government Affairs program aggressively
promotes and protects the interests of its member
companies in legal and public policy debates by working
with state, federal and international policymakers,
organizing grassroots activism and participating in
landmark legal decisions. SIIA is the leading voice on key
issues affecting the software and information industry,
particularly with regards to electronic commerce and the
digital marketplace.
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Intellectual Property Committee Update
(10/30/03) -
Highlights in this month's Update:
¤ HR
3261,Database and Collections of Information
Misappropriation Act , Approved by House IP Subcommittee
¤ Markup of
HR 2517, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003,
Postponed; SIIA Working on Amendment
¤ Copyright Office Codifies
Four Exemptions to DMCA Pursuant to 1201(a)(1).
Edited by
Jeff Cutler
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