By Ignatius Chithelen Summary: For-profit publishers charge high prices for academic journals and books. Academic associations and university publishers are disrupting their business by publishing at a third of their prices. This is an extract from “Six Degrees of Education: From Teaching in Mumbai to Investment Research in New York.” …

By Ignatius Chithelen* Over the past two decades, The Economist and The Financial Times have continued to prosper, amid fierce competition from free online news and opinion sources, especially in the United States. The strength of The Economist’s strategy became evident in August 2015 when the London based Pearson PLC…