Digitization has been approached with caution by major publishers for quite sometime mainly due to fears of piracy and other content related crimes. The current economic conditions makes it relatively expensive to pursue conventional print media and has given way to these people to finally realize that it is the way to go. Major titles from McGraw hill and others have taken up the call and are beginning to experiment with digitization for their book titles. According to CMS Wire, the avenue is the one to pursue for it opens up a whole new arena of profits for publishers due to the advantages and marketing advantages of viral marketing and SEO.
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The global economy is down and more people lose jobs, luckily the social web has blogging and other writing jobs that allows you to pass time and earn some cash in the process. Sadly however, blogs have also been hit hard with many networks losing so much money they have been forced to cut back on people.
Putting all the negative stuff aside, blogging remains to be a wide open space for those who seek to earn a living through one of the products of the social internet. The only problem, even this form of media isn’t safe from people who are motivated by greed, earning a buck or two out of your hard earned blog posts. From “Copy-Paste” artists to scammers, they use or hijack blogs for their own benefit leaving you out of the equation. Plagiarism as it is called in technical terms has become so bad that our own Splashpress Media has launched it’s own Copyright Service. With support from Plagiarism Today with regards to the specific legalities involved, it hopes to cater to the needs of customers who want to protect their hard-earned reputations.
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As reported on the Blog Herald, UK-based Shiny Media has cut back on staff. Shiny also reports that one of its co-founders, Katie Lee, is no longer working as editorial director. In a press release, Shiny points to the economic crunch, which necessitated cost-saving measures to ensure long-term stability.

We have held on as long as we could without restructuring the business but we now have to make those changes to secure the long-term stability of Shiny.

It is with huge regret that we are having to part company with several members of our team. They are very talented and extremely likable individuals, however ultimately in the current climate we are faced with no choice but to let them go.

The decision for Katie Lee to leave was her own, as she reasons the “time is right to leave the business.” She still remains a shareholder in the network, though, and has contributed much in the development of various niche blogs that belong to the network.

Chris Price remains as the last of the company’s founders with active involvement in the network.