Thad McIlroy - The Future of Publishing

Credit where credit is due: I was first informed of this
fascinating tale about the future of writing and book publishing from David
Pogue’s always fun, provocative and illuminating weekly
column in The New York Times. His
May 22nd column
provided his take on whether he should provide free downloads of his (many) books.
After a couple of bad experiences he’s [...]

After leading the page layout sweepstakes for many years, QuarkXPress was slowly but surely falling behind Adobe InDesign in sales and functionality as the #1 page layout program (primarily for print). When Bruce Chisholm was at the helm at Adobe he championed the concept that Microsoft has used so effectively for years: bundle a bunch [...]

I am not an economist (thank God), but have always been fascinated and perplexed by sudden changes in the economy and their secondary effects. I’ve just updated my article on “Current Economics and the Future of Publishing,” using my admittedly limited knowledge to make some modest observations on how the current economic crisis in the [...]

I’m thrilled to have received permission to post Heidi Julavits’ short piece of creative nonfiction, “The Writers in the Silos.” It projects the future of publishing as nothing has before.
I first encountered it in the September 2007 issue of Harper’s Magazine, though it was a reprint from “Creative Nonfiction Issue #31: Imagining the Future,” published [...]

The Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) is a superb research organization funded by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. Its website is a rich treasure trove of research, analysis and commentary tackling the challenge of “understanding news in the digital age.”
PEJ’s flagship report is its annual State of the News Media. The [...]

There are days when I don’t post a blog entry or otherwise update my site because I’m too immersed in housekeeping chores.
Those chores fall into two categories: scouring the Web for more articles, data and commentary that are the lifeblood of what goes into this site, and then sorting through and filing all of those [...]

An article appeared on May 5th in the New York Times called “Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In. In glowing terms, it recounts the apparently amazing transformation of media giant IDG from primarily a print-based magazine publisher to an online publisher.
The article moved quickly onto the Times‘ most-read and most-blogged list (today it’s [...]

This blog entry complements my last entry on magazines (May 2nd). The information came to me by a circuitous route.
Bob Sacks, aka “BoSacks” “a veteran of the printing/publishing industry since 1970” (primarily the magazine industry), issues an iconoclastic email newsletter, and does so thrice daily (!), most of which focuses on the magazine industry, some [...]

I somehow missed this interesting development last October, but it’s well worth getting it on the record here.
The annual American Magazine Conference was held October 28-30, 2007. As stated on the Magazine Publishers Association (MPA) site promoting the conference:
“Our theme this year is ‘The MagaBrand Revolution: How Media Brands are Finding Success on the Printed [...]