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Television Disrupted

The new, updated 2nd edition of Television Disrupted:The Transition from Network to Networked TV is in stock for immediate delivery.

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My seminal book about the media landscape follows the money and the technology that enables it. The book also looks at the business rules and legal issues that are having a huge impact on the future. File sharing, copyright laws, geographical form factors, temporal windows and much more.

During the next few years, everything we know about the business of television is going to change - Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV will serve as a guidebook and roadmap for the foreseeable future.

This is a book for media, entertainment and telecommunications professionals who are being forced (by constant technological change) to think about their businesses in new ways. Among other important topics, it covers:

TV for telephone execs
Telephone for cable TV execs
Internet for TV, cable, satellite and telephone execs
Mobile devices for everybody

In the following pages you will learn that:

The sky is not falling.
There is no “silver bullet” or single solution (and there really never has been)
New media rarely completely replaces existing media.
You can position yourself perfectly to take advantage of this exciting time of transition and change.

If you think of your customers as “access lines,” “subs,” “unique users,” or “TV households,” you need to read this book!

Get Digital

Get Digital: Reinventing Yourself and Your Career for the New Digital Economy

Digital competence and digital skills are key differentiators. This book is designed to help you become more competitive and make you more productive in the digital economy of the 21st century. The practical guidelines, ideas and techniques are immediately applicable on both a personal and business level. You will learn how digitally-savvy executives are using their computers and they will gain an understanding of best practices digital tools and techniques.

Today, everyone with a computer and a connection to the Internet can create text, graphics, audio and video content and instantly distribute it to a worldwide audience. Through a series of hands-on exercises combined with case studies and Shelly Palmer’s personal insights, you will learn how consumers are empowered by digital technology, how they are using the medium and how this technological transition is changing the doing of business in the 21st century.

Whether you’re worried about how you fit into the competitive job market, starting out on your own or just interested in staying on top of the latest technology, this book is a must read.

Available this spring from Lake House Press.

Shelly Palmer is a consultant and the host of MediaBytes a daily show featuring news you can use about technology, media & entertainment and Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC. He invented the underlying technology for Enhanced Television (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Monday Night Football), the most popular form of interactive television in the United States. Mr. Palmer is the President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted EmmyΠAwards). His professional vitae includes years of experience in television production and musical composition. He created and produced HotPop, a teen lifestyle and music show airing on Starz/Encore's WAM! A prolific composer, Palmer was the recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP's) 12th Annual Film and Television Music Award for ABC's hit series Spin City. He was also recognized the following season in the category of "Most Performed Television Themes." Palmer's music credits include the theme songs for Live with Regis & Kelly, Rivera Live and MSNBC as well as the digital debut of the "real" cat singing the classic "Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow." He is a weekly columnist for the Jack Myers Report, The Huffington Post and a technology commentator for CNN.com. Palmer is the author of Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV 2nd Edition (York House Press, 2008) the seminal book about the technological, economic, and sociological forces that are changing everything.