Author: Chuck Richard (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Audience: This report contains data and analysis providing an in-depth view into the B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information segment. It includes analysis of market trends and our forecast for this segment’s growth and performance to 2014 – Outsell forecasts that the B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information segment will more than double its growth between 2011 and 2014 compared to 2009, and grow 3.4% in 2011 to just over $23.0 billion. Additionally, we profile up-and-coming players in each subsegment and the disruptive forces they embody, as well as more established companies that are worth watching because of how they are diversifying or adapting to the market. This report provides advice and essential actions for publishers and information providers that want to create revenue opportunities, attract new buyers, and achieve competitive advantage. Equally, it supports those who cover and need greater understanding of this segment, including suppliers to the industry, investment bankers and analysts, and journalists.

Highlights:

• An overview of the B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information segment including analysis of relevant macro trends
• Forecast data and analysis for the B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information segment, 2011-2014, and for the B2B trade publishing and company information subsegments
• Forecast data and analysis for the segment, 2011-2014
• Key trends in this market
• Analysis of market drivers and the competitive landscape, including first-half 2010-2011 revenue and growth for the top companies in each subsegment



• Outsell’s “10 to Watch” in each subsegment
• Essential actions for publishers in this segment

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Author: Elizabeth Mason (LinkedIn)

Audience:

This report examines the current competitive positioning of the leaders and identifies potential disruptions to their stronghold. It highlights budding yet real threats to incumbents such as Morningstar’s purchase of Realpoint to grow its established brand name into the new issuance debt ratings business. It examines firms vying for investors’ surveillance ratings budgetary dollars, such as CreditSights and Rapid Ratings. It touches on legal and regulatory changes as they relate to shifting sands within this space. This report is relevant to ratings agencies, their investors, their clients and those players look to compete in the credit ratings and credit research arena.

Highlights:

• This is a follow-up to The Credit & Financial Information Landscape published February 2011, which lays out the hierarchy and subsegments of the Credit & Financial Information segment.
• Here we are providing a deeper analysis of the credit rating agencies subsegment.
• The Big Three: Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s Ratings and Fitch Ratings have long led this shifting sub-segment.
• Many stakeholders question both the overall value of credit ratings and the ethics of the current predominant investor-pay model. Global regulatory reform is compounding change.
• Consequently, new entrants, long kept out by high barriers to entry, are arriving and participating in the reshaping of this arena.

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Authors:

Ned May (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Kate Worlock (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Pooneh Fooladi (LinkedIn)

Audience:

This report defines the worldwide book market and major sub-segments, explores the underlying dynamics across these markets, and sizes and forecasts the current print and e-book opportunity across each. In doing so, Outsell is providing the first worldwide view of the entire market, which will be found valuable by publishers, retailers, journalists, and others covering or interested in the book market on a global scale.

Highlights:

• Despite all the attention on e-books today, they only accounted for 5.2% of worldwide book sales in 2010
• By the end of 2013, however, Outsell foresees the worldwide share for e-books to rise to 16.1%
• Today, growth and penetration of e-books varies greatly by region and by segment making the underlying details as contained in this report critical for understanding how the market is and will continue to unfold

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Questions: Scott Templeman (Twitter, LinkedIn) stempleman@outsellinc.com