The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
April 28th, 2011
While reading the latest financials from Martha Stewart I realized that her template could be applied to most long-time publishing organizations today. Revenue up, profit down. The only thing unusual about Ms. Stewart’s story is the “revenue up” portion. More often I read “revenue down, profit down.” Digital widgets generally sell for less than their analog…
July 2nd, 2010
In return, my best wishes to The Times and The Sunday Times, founded in 1788. Now owned by Rupert Murdoch, who purchased the paper from the Thomson Corporation in 1981, this is the launch of his born-again content-is-more-important-than-advertising initiative.
June 2nd, 2010
…quoted the blogger on his blog. © Asa Mathat, the Wall Street Journal At the All Things Digital conference last night, Steve Jobs, asked whether the iPad will be a savior for content creators, said: “I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers…I think we need editorial oversight now more than…
August 20th, 2009
I would imagine that the title of this blog entry will strike you as about as contradictory a title to yesterday’s entry as would be possible. But it’s pulled from the précis (registration required) of a new report from Borrell Associates, which has a strong reputation analysing all thngs Web. I thought I would rebalance…
August 20th, 2009
Printing an article this afternoon from Canada’s The Globe and Mail, I encountered an unexpected print dialog box that I thought was pretty nifty. Instead of just offering the standard print dialog box from the OS, and printing a copy to paper or PDF, suddenly there are additional options which may be handy for you,…