How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.
“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should be required for anyone who wishes to believe that nothing much has changed.” ―The Wall Street Journal
“Packed with examples, from the nimble-footed who reacted quickly to adapt their businesses, to laggards who lost empires.” ―Financial Times
Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix's House of Cards. Netflix gauged the show's potential from data it had gathered about subscribers' preferences, ordered two seasons without seeing a pilot, and uploaded the first thirteen episodes all at once for viewers to watch whenever they wanted on the devices of their choice. 
In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries―and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We're living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries. Just about everything is affected: pricing, production, distribution, piracy. Smith and Telang discuss niche products and the long tail, product differentiation, price discrimination, and incentives for users not to steal content. To survive and succeed, businesses have to adapt rapidly and creatively. Smith and Telang explain how.
How can companies discover who their customers are, what they want, and how much they are willing to pay for it? Data. The entertainment industries, must learn to play a little “moneyball.” The bottom line: follow the data.

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment

Smith, Michael D.

Telang, Rahul

Humor & Entertainment

Mit Pr

Why our current system of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable and how to address the crisis with the creative implementation of digital technologies.\nFor too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe. In The Abundant University, Michael D. Smith argues that the only way to create a financially and morally sustainable higher education system is by embracing digital technologies for enrolling, instructing, and credentialing students—the same technologies that we have seen create abundance in access to resources in industry after industry.\nThe Abundant University explains how we got our current system, why it’s such an expensive, inefficient mess, and how a system based on exclusivity cannot foster inclusivity. Smith challenges the resistance to digital technologies that we have already seen among numerous institutions, citing the examples of faculty resistance toward digital learning platforms. While acknowledging the understandable self-preservation instinct of our current system of residential education, Smith makes a case for how technology can engender greater educational opportunity and create changes that will benefit students, employers, and society as a whole.

The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

The MIT Press

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment (Mit Press)

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Offering a new perspective on male prostitution, In the Company of Men employs qualitative methodology to present a real-world view of the issues, both obvious and obscure, surrounding the world's "second-oldest profession."
In the Company of Men: Inside the Lives of Male Prostitutes is the only book to document male prostitution from the perspective of a group of men working for a single male escort agency. The in-depth account goes behind the scenes to shed light on the very hidden world of Internet male escorts, their customers, and the niche they inhabit in modern American society. At the same time, it has much to tell us about post-modern identity, culture, and sexuality―and the transformative influence of the Internet on sexual behavior and male prostitution.
Through numerous interviews, the book examines the sometimes-dichotomous relationship between the image men convey and the lengths to which they go in order to meet their most private needs. Readers travel down a cyber Sunset Boulevard to see what attracts young men to work as escorts, how an escort agency serves economic and personal goals, and how a community can evolve among the men involved.
 • Field observations from more than 200 contact hours at the agency and with the escorts
• First-hand accounts and stories from interviews and interactions with men working as male escorts and with managers at their agency

In the Company of Men: Inside the Lives of Male Prostitutes (Sex, Love, and Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Grov, Christian

Psychology & Counseling

Praeger

Astrophysical jets are spectacular displays of gas or dust ejected from a range of cosmic bodies; they are seemingly ubiquitous on scales from comets to black holes. This volume reviews our understanding of jet processes and provides a modern guide to their observation and the role they play in many long-standing problems in astrophysics. It covers the major discoveries in gamma-ray bursts, solar and stellar jets and cometary jets. Specific physical processes for all classes of jet are illustrated and discussed in depth, as a backdrop to explaining spectacular jet images. Current jet models raise as many issues as they solve, so the final chapter looks at the new questions to be answered. Written at an entry level for postgraduate students, this volume incorporates introductions to all the governing physics, providing a comprehensive and insightful guide to the study of jets for researchers across all branches of astrophysics.

Astrophysical Jets and Beams (Cambridge Astrophysics, Series Number 49)

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Cambridge University Press

A collection of articles seeking to extend the clinical concept of native-speaker capability and encourage naturally occurring variations in communicative behavior. Topics include the adaptive nature of developmental immaturity, linguistic and cognitive aspects of specific language impairment, acquired childhood language disorders, substance abuse risk factors, multicultural populations, and early intervention. Of interest to professionals in the field. Note: this volume also goes by the title Language Handicaps in Children . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Childhood Language Disorders

Medical Books

Damico, Jack Samual

Allied Health Professions

Thieme Medical Pub

Lottie's Story: Lottie Wyatt, "Ordered, Adjudged, and Decreed to be an Insane Person"

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix's House of Cards. Netflix gauged the show's potential from data it had gathered about subscribers' preferences, ordered two seasons without seeing a pilot, and uploaded the first thirteen episodes all at once for viewers to watch whenever they wanted on the devices of their choice.In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries--and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We're living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries. Just about everything is affected: pricing, production, distribution, piracy. Smith and Telang discuss niche products and the long tail, product differentiation, price discrimination, and incentives for users not to steal content. To survive and succeed, businesses have to adapt rapidly and creatively. Smith and Telang explain how.How can companies discover who their customers are, what they want, and how much they are willing to pay for it? Data. The entertainment industries, must learn to play a little "moneyball." The bottom line: follow the data.

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Ready to remodel? What’s holding you back? Is it all the horror stories you’ve heard from friends? If so, I understand. As a licensed architect, I have been listening to homeowners talk about their home remodeling horror stories for my entire three-decade career. 
In How to Avoid Home Remodeling Hell, I share my tips on how to take control of your home remodeling project so you can save time, money, and eliminate your stress. I am here to help you break the cycle of pain, and remodel your home efficiently and effectively so you get exactly what you’re looking for. 
This book provides the detailed information to eliminate stress and anxiety that homeowners typically feel before and during the process. You’ll discover how to choose the right professionals, oversee the design, manage the construction process, and ensure your project is finished on time—and on budget—while avoiding the typical problems that derail a home remodel. 
How to Avoid Home Remodeling Hell is your guidebook to creating your dream home. If you have the time and money to start a home remodeling project, this book will walk you through the exact steps to turn your vision into reality.

How to Avoid Home Remodeling Hell: Your Stress Free Blueprint to New Home Construction or Home Remodeling Success

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Year of the Book Press

A public school administrator's journey of stepping out in faith to release signs and wonders in the workplace.

LEAP: TRANSFORMING YOUR WORKPLACE FOR JESUS

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

Michael D Smith

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