The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
February 6th, 2018
There’s money to be made in dying industries, that’s for certain. Case in point, Cenveo Corporation. Last Friday, February 2nd, Cenveo filed for bankruptcy. As reported on Bloomberg, the company listed “more than $1.4 billion in debts and about $790 million in assets in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition…” Yes, that sounds like a bankrupt company.
January 8th, 2014
I started floating the idea of “bookishess” last spring. It’s a simple concept. Ebooks and print books each have notable advantages and disadvantages (they are in fact complementary media, not conflicting media). But print books often get lost in the online battle: Every time Amazon adds a single percent to its market share, a beautiful…
July 22nd, 2012
Last winter The Green Sheet, a printing industry newsletter, published my contrarian look at the hype surrounding cloud computing. The topic continues to spread across all industries as ever-increasingly the software we use moves from dedicated single-use installed applications to shared network resources. This, I argue, is big news for vendors selling cloud-based services. It’s not…
February 17th, 2010
I was pleased to encounter Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’ blog posting this evening, “The Slow Demise of the Printer.” Of course many of my readers could read into the title in two ways: an acknowledgement of my frequently noted difficulties at printing companies, or as a note on the decline in the use of desktop printers. You’ll…
January 17th, 2010
No press release was issued by Adobe, but a few press outlets caught the story. I found it the other day in PrintAction‘s weekly enewsletter. Clive Chan, PrintAction‘s associate editor, tells me that he picked up the story from Macworld UK. Further searching brings me to a blog entry from January 4, 2010 by the excellent journalist Cary…