July 3rd, 2009
HarperCollins Publishers, one of the largest English-language publishers with sales over $1 billion, is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Last fall it launched authonomy, ostensibly a sort of social networking site, where authors could submit 10,000 words or more from an unpublished book (or self-published) and the devoted and literate members of the authonomy…
June 26th, 2009
While researching my previous blog entry, I found another very interesting piece on the U.K. Guardian’s excellent site, more specifically the OrganGrinderBlog, which focuses on digital media. A May 6th entry, covering the FIPP World Magazine Congress, reports on a presentation by Matt Brittin, Google’s UK director. Apparently Google has shared U.S. $5B with publishers…
June 17th, 2009
A very funny clip of comedian Louis CK, appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Courtesy of my friend Bob McArthur, who in turn found it on The Digitalist, which noted that “this clip will resonate with anyone involved in digital publishing…”
May 20th, 2009
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…
May 12th, 2009
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…