The title of this blog is the same as one appearing today on Chris Brogan’s thoughtful blog.
After a brief intro he offers the following:
The Next Media Company Manifesto
Here’s what I believe might (emphasis mine) need to be true about the next media company:
Stories are points in time, but won’t end at publication. (Edits, updates, extensions [...]
To find out the inside scoop on stories like that reported in my previous blog entry, I’m now subscribing to Publishers Lunch Deluxe newsletter, which I receive as part of a $20/month membership to Publishers Marketplace. Thus far I’m finding it to be of excellent value for my research and understanding of what’s happening in [...]
How’s that for a headline! Pulled directly from Publishers Weekly, the word is that “The number of new and revised titles produced by traditional production methods fell 3% in 2008, to 275,232, but the number of on-demand and short run titles soared 132%, to 285,394….Taken together, total output rose 38%, to 560,626 titles….Since 2002, production [...]
Rather than belaboring the usual arguments about newspapers and democracy, what will become of our youth, what will I read at breakfast and so on, Beth Teitell in The Boston Globe offers a fun article called Save the Presses! OK Internet, Just Try Replacing Newspapers in these Situations (tip courtesy of The Future of Print [...]
As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, there are no shortage of pundits on the future of publishing, in all its forms. It is a cluttered field, and unless you can devote all day, every day, to their utterances, you’re going to miss some great blogs entries, and a ton of dross. Most focus on more limited [...]
Princeton University has created a website to set forth the rationale for exploring eReading devices (specifically the Kindle DX). The whole site (not large) is worth exploring. But one fascinating statement emerges:
A driving factor in the launch of this pilot was the patterns of printing on campus. Statistics show that students are not reading digital [...]
Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni and Bob Sacks are the two leading eminences grise(s) of the magazines and newspapers publishing industries. But neither are gray in their outlook: both have refreshingly positive attitudes as to where things are heading.
Dr. Husni’s recent blog entry, “37 good things I have learned from the 37th FIPP World Magazine Congress” [...]
I had a grand plan tonight to create an in-depth article debunking all of the false (or, at best, misleading) information that surrounded today’s launch of the Kindle DX.
It had the same title as this blog entry.
The article began:
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Hush now, don’t explain
Just say you’ll remain
Unless you’re mad, don’t explain
– Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog
The subscription-only PublishersLunch [...]
The press is absolutely buzzing with scuttlebutt about the apparently now not very secret annoucement that Amazon plans for Wednesday in New York of a new supersized Kindle, roughly at the 8-1/2 ” by 11″ page size.
The first leak was in an article in the Sunday New York Times called “Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to [...]
I’m not a trained economist, although I’ve worked as a businessman for some 30 years, and have closely followed economic issues for many years. I think it’s obvious to everyone that works in publishing that the economic situation worldwide (and particularly in the U.S.) has become the “double whammy” that’s causing huge distress for publishers [...]
