Brian O'Leary

South Orange, NJ United States

Consultant

I am principal of Magellan Media, a consulting firm that helps content marketers as well as association, magazine and book publishers improve the effectiveness of their content workflows. I write extensively about issues affecting the publishing industry. In addition to a widely read blog, my work includes "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto", a collection of forward-looking essays on publishing that I co-edited with Hugh McGuire. I am also the author of research reports on: the use of metadata in the book industry supply chain, territorial rights in the digital age; and best practices in digital exports. I have studied the impact of free content and digital piracy on paid book sales and was...