As revenues from alternatives decrease and digital revenue sources prove insufficient, publishers are finding that straight-up asking readers to pay may be the best approach going forward.
[…] guys like disruptive technology so much, as they have the lessons of successful disruptions all around them: CraigsList (farewell to newspapers), Amazon (good-bye, bookstores), Twitter (CNN news flashes), and so on. Of course, publishers and the academic community they serve […]
The results of the most recent ALPSP publisher survey offer some surprising results.
[…] research. Put another way, the Web was designed to disrupt scientific publishing. It was not designed to disrupt bookstores, telecommunications, matchmaking services, newspapers, pornography, stock trading, music distribution, or a great many other industries. And yet it has. It is breathtaking to […]
[…] greatly improve the efficiency of licensing translation rights, and have been working to improve access to informational content (scholarly books, newspapers, magazines) into the K-12 markets as part of the Common Core State Standards. I have also spent a lot […]
[…] news and information into the hands of a small number of gatekeepers. These gatekeepers were huge media companies (Gannett in newspapers, Time Warner in magazines and movies, and so forth), whose declared objective was to deliver profits for shareholders, not […]
[…] another’s text, the news media works within different norms. Large sections of text are routinely lifted and republished in local newspapers. What the Associated Press wants to prevent is bloggers quoting from the headline and first lead paragraph. In other […]
[…] created a massive dataset — nearly 350 million individual user interactions covering nearly 100 thousand serials including journals, magazines, and newspapers. Their goals was to create a map of the relationships among journals. While the mapping of journal relationships using […]
[…] is its repeated reference to a “social media campaign” against it. It is true that contributors to the blogosphere, Twitter, newspapers, professional journals, and listservs responded with outrage to EMP’s lawsuits, and that Askey (along with many of his friends […]
[…] social Internet era. From one side of the equation, it has massively reduced the music industry and continues to push newspapers into nonexistence. People like getting things for free, and if someone offers essentially the same product as yours without […]
Recent data from the Guardian suggests that commenting remains a fringe activity, often dominated by a few voices. What might this mean for initiatives based on altmetrics and post-publication review?
[…] innocuous-seeming conversation, and by using confederates as plants in the audience. In the information age, with Google, Facebook, and local newspapers available at a click, being “psychic” must be easier than ever. There’s always a rational explanation. So why are […]
A nifty little experiment across a two-part New York Times column shows that some aspect of authority resides in not only your words, but the typeface they appear in.
An interview with Fred Dylla of the American Institute of Physics, and why funding is at the heart of many issues we currently face.
The University of Missouri saga has many lessons for publishers of all types. But perhaps the harshest lesson is that we’re in a tough business.