The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
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…
July 12th, 2009
If, like me, you check in frequently for the “hot” topics floating around the Internet, you’ll have run into a near-nauseating avalanche of articles, reviews, blog postings, interviews and tweets about Chis Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price.” (Curiously the publisher lists the title as “Free: The Past and (emphasis mine)…
July 12th, 2009
One of the ongoing hot-topics in the eBook reader debate centers around the perceived need for eBook readers to be able to display color images in a user-acceptable fashion. epapercentral reports on one of the most recent attempts to tackle the challenge (there are many others, at various stages of development). According to the report,…
July 11th, 2009
A July 9th report in Adweek, quoting data from Nielsen’s Global AdView Pulse, states that “Advertising spending around the world dropped 7.2 percent in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008.” The Nielsen site entry reports that “Though North America suffered the largest raw percentage decline of any region (-12.4%)…