The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
June 20th, 2008
In today’s edition of PrintAction‘s weekly newsletter, I found the headline: FEDEX KILLS KINKO’S BRAND. I had read this elsewhere, but had not previously encountered the embittered remarks of the company founder, Paul Orfalea. I could paraphrase the accompanying article, but as I’m a contributing writer to the publication, I hope that editor Jon Robinson…
June 15th, 2008
The title of this blog entry is also the title of a piece in today’s New York Times. The story is most simply stated by quoting from part of the second paragraph: “three of the country’s largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active subscribers by placing monthly limits on…
June 15th, 2008
I am still reeling from Steve Ballmer’s atrociously ill-considered remarks to The Washington Post (Ballmer, as most recall, is CEO of Microsoft, when Bill G. is not at home) that “there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines…
June 5th, 2008
As I watched the news reports on Tuesday evening indicating that Barack Obama had captured the Democratic nomination for president, I quipped to myself, “Time for a new blog entry called ‘Barack Obama and the Future of Publishing’.†But, I thought, I didn’t recall publishing as a theme of his campaign — I couldn’t recall…
June 4th, 2008
Every four years in Dusseldorf, Germany an enormous printing trade show, called drupa (standing for Druck Und Papier [in German: printing and paper] gets underway. According to the official press release, “With 1,971 exhibitors from 52 countries spread across an exhibition area of over 175,000 square metres and an anticipated 400,000 visitors from around the globe,…