Overall Scientific Technical Medical publishing industry grew 4.4% to $14.7 billion in 2007 (Source: Simba). With the emergence of technology enabled business models, the publishing industry has witnessed intense competition, in recent years.

Technological innovation and the advancement of science continue to change the market. Also, technological innovations have lowered the cost of entry for new competitors. This is because electronic-only publishers do not incur costs associated with the production, warehousing and distribution of print copies.

STM online news service, Knowledgespeak brings out the latest happenings in the STM publishing industry. This online Scientific Technical Medical news publishing service serves as a communication vehicle to reach customers and / or other key stakeholders of the industry. Subscribers of Knowledgespeak can stay informed by getting daily online STM news alerts. Also, they can benefit from a calendar of events, a directory of STM publishers, a resource section containing relevant feature articles, whitepapers and presentations, a blog section and more.

STM publishers can promote their products and services by sending press releases. In addition, they can track peer activity as well as easily locate relevant database providers. Knowledgespeak is a free scientific technical and medical news service for professionals who need to recognize and respond to the continuous challenges of the scientific technical and medical (STM) publishing industry.

Knowledgespeak is the first online STM news service to report on all the related developments within the scientific, technical and medical publishing industry, on a daily basis. Widely subscribed by people who matter most in the STM publishing industry, this STM news service has become the benchmark for online scientific and medical news.

STM News categories covered in this scientific news service and medical news service:

Scientific Technical Medical Industry Data Management

Alliances, Partnerships and Consolidations

STM Industry New Release – Journals, Products, Services

Results - findings from research reports

STM news publishing industry collaborative content, Web 2.0, Scientific News Service Social Networking and Medical News Service Social Networking

Library – Management, Digitization, Automation

Multi-channel - scientific content publishing and medical content publishing, Innovative scientific e-publishing services and medical e-publishing service. New scientific content news formats and medical content news format

New Appointments and other executive movements

Additional features offered by Knowledgespeak include a comprehensive directory of scientific news content publisher and medical news content publishers, a calendar of scientific news events and medical news events, a resource section featuring interesting in scientific news articles and medical news articles, scientific publisher news service whitepapers, medical publisher news service whitepapers and presentations relevant to the STM news journal publishing industry, and a scientific news blog and medical news blog area.