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Well the share price held up quite well considering... the next 3-4 months here are vital and I don't think any further profit warnings will be forgiven by the stock market.... any further bad news equals 50-80p imo
Is William J Barbour still a Shareholder? I assume he dumped whilst pumping last year
did you make it?>
dont use any acronyms, has the mother been prepped to do what needs to be done. and knows yeah., i cant wait, this is what is needed, an epic slamming by the mother
Yep bad results and a placing at 120p (what a surprise)... I think i'll stay away for the time being !!
Nothing really changes here... a £4 million loss for 2014... the only hope is that this is it with regards to contract losses and writedowns but I am not dipping my toes back in until it's obvious the company is in heading the right way again ..
"The Company also announces that it is in early stage discussions with an overseas third party which, subject to the conclusion of a satisfactory due diligence exercise and obtaining regulatory approvals, is considering a substantial investment to acquire a considerable minority interest in the Company through the issue of new shares at a significant premium to the current share price"
Seems like another disguised profit warning to me.... it's ok banging on about future growth but perhaps the company should get its current trading sorted first! Should be back down today...
Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind. But there is a new broom and the tech is still relevant, isn't it?
Perhaps the company is unloved because it was pumped so much and the company has just reported... losses!
So, just, why is this company so unloved?
Agree - apparently Tara has not posted on the Advfn thread since mid May- did the same a while back with MAC - then came back a few months later when outlook improved. I respect posters who post though the good & bad times on their investments - too many just appear on bad days or post on good days depending on their view point. Keep up the good work highlighting the poor performances..
Dire - and usually profit warnings come in threes... not sure if Tara is posting on Advfn today - will check later. I suppose the outlook is a bit more positive but rather look in than be in!
Tara7, You seem to have a feel for this share. What is happening with the sp? There seem to be many positives with the company but the share has bottomed out from the highs of last October. What went down at the AGM? OK Directors are not ready to announce a divi - but is the company losing its technological edge?
So, Harper Collins who now run on PTO'S Advance platform growing at 30 % plus overnight. Advance produces recurring revenues for PTO. RESEARCH PAYS,AS WE WILL NEVER SEE AN RNS FOR NEWS LIKE THIS.!
7th May 2014 Consolidation in the book publishing industry continues. News Corp last week announced that it was acquiring Harlequin, which will become a part of HarperCollins. The deal was C$455 million ($415 million) and all cash. HarperCollins revenues should swell by nearly 30%, assuming both it and Harlequin do as well in 2014 as they did in 2013. Speculating just about size, the company will likely be even larger than the sum of the two parts in 2014 due to the smash success of Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, which HarperCollins publishes. October 11, 2012 by michaelgroth HarperCollins Publishers invests in global publishing system – Authors set to benefit as publisher unites technological infrastructure across US, UK, Canada and Australia HarperCollins Publishers today announced that it will roll out a new global publishing system, one of the largest undertakings of its kind to be implemented by a trade publisher. Global Product Manager, developed in partnership with Publishing Technology, will enable HarperCollins to unify editorial, marketing and business data around the world, widening the reach of its print and digital publications in its core target markets.
EpubDirect is largest digital book provider in Europe and Overdrive the largest e book provider in the world,have both singed up on PTO'S The platform is going to be the biggest in China backed by the Chinese Government. PTO'S market cap just £30M,China is just one of 5 other profit streams for the company. The above deals can be found on the WWW but as yet no news from the company as when they set up the platform two years ago it was the stated plan going forward.
NEWSFLASH: April 29, 2014 Twelve new publishers join Publishing Technology’s ingentaconnect service Currently aggregating 11,764 publications and 5,700,905 articles from 255 publishers such as Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, Bentham Science, Intellect and AHS International, ingentaconnect recently welcomed twelve new ebook and journal publishers to its portal. Continue reading >
With more than 1,000,000 titles in every subject representing 1,000+ publishers, OverDrive hosts the largest digital library catalog in the world. !!!
PTO have a 49 % share of this massive book platform. The stock market has not priced in the huge recurring profits that the Joint Venture will make.
quickly and the enthusiasm to be the biggest and best makes the Chinese market a mouth-watering prospect for publishers and publishing service providers alike. The Digital Gateway, a significant digital development in Chinese publishing, goes live this week and is being launched by Publishing Technology and CNPIEC at The London Book Fair. It will become the most authoritative source for international academic content in China and will offer Western publishers a new route to market via access to libraries in China that never existed before. We are extremely excited about bringing these innovations to the publishing industry and look forward to playing a major role bridging the gap between East and West. SEP 15 2013 OverDrive Announces New Deal to Bring Library eBook Lending into China By Michael Kozlowski OverDrive is best known for their digital infrastructure that allows libraries to loan out eBooks to their patrons. The company has a massive footprint in Canada, Australia, US, Ireland, and the UK. Recently, OverDrive attended the IFLA annual conference, as well as the Beijing International Book Fair. The big news that broke out of these two events was a new contract that will bring OverDrive to China. The China National Publications Import & Export Corporation (CNPIEC) and OverDrive signed an E-Publications Import License Agreement in an official signing ceremony. With this agreement in place, OverDrive can now take steps towards making OverDrive’s catalog of digital content available in China to libraries and retailers. CNPIEC is the largest importer of publications in China with domestic customers of over 10,000 libraries and institutions. OverDrive’s entry into China will provide an additional market for OverDrive’s publisher partners, who can rely on the trusted relationship with OverDrive as their digital distribution partner. The foray into China is something OverDrive has been focused on for the better part of a year. This is a huge deal, but there is no timeline in which the digital ecosystem will be widely available. Sources within the company have speculated that English Schools will be the first ones to make the eBooks available, as this makes up the bulk of OverDrive’s digital portfolio. From the OverDrive company web site today.! THE LARGEST CONTENT CATALOG With more than 1,000,000 titles in every subject representing 1,000+ publishers, OverDrive hosts the largest digital library catalog in the world. Read more…
Posted on April 20, 2012 by publishing technology On 17th April, our CEO George Lossius announced the launch of the Digital Gateway project at London Book Fair. The project provides Chinese libraries with their most significant digital publishing platform to date. In this article (first published by Bookbrunch in its London Book Fair China Market Insight supplement), George explains why the gateway represents a major opportunity to publishers in China and the West. In addition to promoting international alliances, the Chinese Government also stated in its most recent five year plan that Chinese publishing should become more competitive and that export revenue is forecast to exceed $1 billion by 2015. This renewed, open and global outlook from China is good news for the international publishing community – both for exporting international content to Chinese shores and for the explosion of Chinese content across the globe. Just weeks after having launched in China, we signed a landmark partnership with the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation (CNPIEC), the largest company fully licensed by the Chinese government to import publications, to join forces on a new project called the Digital Gateway. The concept was to deliver the largest digital content platform to Chinese libraries. Working with over 11,000 academic and public libraries, CNPIEC was actively looking to improve digital access to international content across these institutions and local content internationally, so our timing couldn’t have been better. The aim of the Digital Gateway project was to create the most significant resource for international digital content in China on the pub2web platform. Yet it quickly became apparent that there was also scope for creating a portal to export Chinese content digitally across the globe, in line with the Chinese government’s strategy. Subsequently Ingentaconnect China was born. These dual Chinese projects have grown in size, significance, ambition and potential, so much so that we now expect to make millions of international online resources available in China and vice versa, opening up new avenues of collaboration on content and culture. These are exciting times to be working in China. The new middle classes are booming, literacy rates are healthier than ever and there are several new digital trends, particularly those being pioneered on the trade side by Cloudary, that are already proving to be extremely noteworthy. Despite this, with the exception of journals, the academic side of China’s digital publishing landscape remains largely untapped. But, as in many things, the Chinese are in a perfect position to learn from the experiences of international developments over the last decade, drive growth in the digital academic field, and not only catch up, but also surpass the rest of the world, and quickly. These under-exploited opportunities, coupled with the propensity to grow very
PTO: NEWSFLASH: SEARCH GOOGLE SELLING EBOOKS IN CHINA VIMEO.COM The clip lasts around 40M. The best bit starts at 16M onwards. This is all about our j/v partner. We find out just who pays our J/V and how. After 30M we learn that epubdirect is going on our Chinese platform ! Take a look at the contracts epubdirect has with over 200 publishers !!! The clip above is just 3 weeks old! We learn that just 20,000 English books are to be found on China'S No 1 web shopping site. (Named 360 Buy) PTO'S J/V site has over 300,000! ePubDirect is the largest and fastest growing distribution network for eBooks, providing publishers with access to over 1,000 retail channels and over 45,000 libraries. Secure, flexible and instantly scalable, it’s the most cost-effective way to build a business in the digital marketplace. Going onto OUR CHINESE PORTAL!! michaelsadvfn 24 Apr'14 - 13:37 - 10981 of 10997 0 0 Very interesting tara. Well, more than very interesting!! "Myself and Gareth were really impressed with them..." DRM standards - Digital Rights Management. "These guys have excellent DRM standards. Our IT guys reckon it's as good as anything anyone else has..." Jingdong Mall. Holy ****.... Growing 3 times faster than the industry average. Over 80 million registered users and 10,000 suppliers. Average daily page views - 150 million with average unique visitors of 10 million, with 500,000 orders per day. Jeepers!! Gonna be enormous. ePubDirect - Global eBook Distribution - Random House & ePubDirect www.epubdirect.com/news/random-house-group-epubdirect Random House & ePubDirect - Award winning eBook distribution services with unrivalled global reach of 1000 retail outlets and 45000 eBook libraries in over ... Go to the film clip after 30M they tell us they are working on our Chinese platform RIGHT NOW! CNPICE and PTO have a hold on the Chinese book import market, as 90% of books and ebooks have to go through them. The game plan is to keep them on our J/V portal. (Sales platform) Those that just go through the portal will still make money for us as we take a cut as per the film
Should read today or Monday, with luck news of the book fair award