Personanondata: MediaWeek (Vol 1 No 27):

Sunday, July 06, 2008

MediaWeek (Vol 1 No 27):

Some headlines from the week in media June 30 - July 6. Penguin Blog: Nick Hornby bemoans both e-books and the lack of interest in reading. Radar Online: Gawker media keeps lowering their pay scales. Bloomberg: Reports on the rapidly rising cost of newsprint. As if news wasn't bad enough in newspapers. Reuters: Security Analysts following the newspaper industry are abondoning ship as well. Forbes: Axel Springer are on the look out for acquisitions. SF Gate: Is a Kindle to books as an iPod is to tunes? Telegraph: Review of a book about 'the grandest name in [British] publishing' John Murray Open Access News: Latest bruhaha in Journals publishing regarding Open Access Publisher Public Library of Science. Private Equity Hub: Reed offering sweatener for Reed Business Deal TimesOnline: Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror may cut dividend after dropping its share buy-back program

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Michael Cairns

Michael Cairns is currently Head of Partner and Channel Development for the publishing unit of the American Psychological Association which is a $100million scholarly, academic and educational publisher. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities supporting the revenue base and working with current and new partners to expand APA's publishing program and mission. Michael Cairns has served as President, CEO and CRO of several brand name publishing, technology and content-centric businesses. His career includes a wide range of publishing and information products, services and B2B categories and his operating and consulting experience has largely been with brand-name companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Macmillan, Inc., Berlitz International, AARP, R.R. Bowker and Wolters Kluwer. Mr. Cairns has also served on boards including the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and also served as Chairman of the International ISBN Executive Committee.