The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
July 29th, 2008
Many will remember the immortal words of J.M. Barrie in Peter Pan: “If you believe in fairies, then clap your hands.” Many are urging us to do the same for newspapers. For some commentators clapping our hands might represent the only hope remaining for the daily newspaper in the U.S. I thought of this as…
July 23rd, 2008
This marvelous document appears on the Tell Zell: What You Really Think blog, “courtesy of Andrew Spencer, now 10. Sent in and used with the permission of his mom, Gail Gedan Spencer, a blogger and copy editor at the Sun” I’ll just note a small part of her commentary, and encourage you to visit the…
June 20th, 2008
It’s not as if the last few months have been exactly perky and upbeat around publishing offices across the U.S. But the last week seems to have been completely inundated with a dismal torrent of bad news. Both Hearst (3rd largest magazine publishing in the U.S.) and Hachette (dropped out of the #10 spot in…
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 1st, 2008
More credit where credit is due: I was alerted to this provocative May 2008 column on Slate.com by Bob Sacks in his Heard on the Web — Media Intelligence newsletter. Back in the prehistoric era, i.e. 1993, mega-bestselling author Michael Crichton wrote an article for Wired magazine called Mediasaurus. In the article he made several…