Image via CrunchBase Back in May 2008, I wrote about a new publishing venture, 8020 Publishing, and their magazines, Everywhere and JPG. They had an intriguing idea — magazines based on user-submitted (amateur) content. And they had plenty of content, […]
When you have to walk the talk, you end up self-publishing. Can it succeed for a work of fiction?
Has the iPhone put the Kindle in the corner? Or will users be predictably irrational and complicate things for publishers?
The Blackberry Storm looks to be a weak clipper system rather than a hurricane. Meanwhile, the iPhone may be poised to control the weather.
The grim parade of dead magazines — put to music!
YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world. Will digital natives be more video-centric than text-centric?
Is the fate of print pre-ordained, or an outcome of suicidal circulation strategies?
Bragging about downloads is akin to saying your site doesn’t work well. Authors will soon start to notice.
Why the market for scholarly articles looks a lot like the market for used cars.
The subscription model retains many virtues, but making it work in the digital world requires new toys.
For a fraction of their revenues, Google creates a win-win.
In the information tsunami, some of the best writers are seeking shelter, preferring intimacy and connection to broadcast and reach.
A recent PLoS Medicine article claims that information economics distort science. But maybe it’s an obsession with journals distorting the views of the authors.
A new Technorati report on the state of the blogosphere jibes with observations that blogs have become mainstream.
One of the great joys of the computer age is that we can slice and dice digital information and try to make new sense of it. It doesn’t decay, and the results come quickly. The recently unveiled Many Eyes is […]