November 12th, 2008
The title of this entry is pulled from an article in the New York Times by David Carr published ages ago: October 28th. Titled “Mourning Old Media’s Decline,” the piece allows me to create an entry on this blog that summarizes the sorry state of newspaper and magazine publishing, thereby avoiding what was starting to…
July 23rd, 2008
A glowing article in last Monday’s New York Times alerted readers that Esquire magazine, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, has figured out a trick to gain admittance to the future of publishing party. The cover of its September issue, or rather the cover of the newsstand version of the September issue, will be “printed”…
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…