The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
July 20th, 2009
There’s something truly magical when you discover a phenomena that could be judged as very technologically small and yet becomes something very big (in the “real world”). Such an incident has occurred around Brushes, an iPhone/iPod Touch application that can create lovely illustrations, deep and emotional in nature, all for $4.99 on the Apple devices…
July 19th, 2009
Two photos of the sign at my local Presbyterian church…I caught a glimpse going by on the bus, and had to walk back to record this deep and thoughtful cautionary note for the digital age! Here’s another angle: If you’d like to use these images elsewhere, please be sure to reference: Copyright 2009 by Thad…
July 14th, 2009
There’s an interesting article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal called “Publisher Delays E-Book Amid Debate on Pricing.” Upon first read, or for those not immersed in the issues surrounding the retailing of eBooks on Amazon, it sounds like no big deal. The article starts with: A leading independent publisher is saying no to the e-book…
July 14th, 2009
We’ve seen it all before in the long-forgotten days of print journalism. One minute you’re reading a story about a great new restaurant in a newspaper or city magazine and then you turn the page and, oh-my-gosh, there’s an advertisement from the very same restaurant. What a coincidence! Publishers have struggled with paid “journalism” since…
July 12th, 2009
I missed it in March, but caught it today. As part of the 31 magazines that have folded in the first 6-months of 2009 in Canada, we will now be deprived of “Wedding Essentials For Same-Sex Couples.” Brandon Jones, who with his wife Christine publishes Wedding Essentials, noted that because they are not gay it…