[…] of thin machine-finished paper made from mechanical wood pulp, with an admixture of chemical wood pulp, and used largely for newspapers; — called also print.” We’re accustomed to words having inherent meaning, but there is another meaning they have, which […]
[…] online content. Science journals went online earlier than most publications, and did so without sacrificing their subscription business model (unlike newspapers, who made everything free, assuming ads would pay the bills). Many business models require content for which customers are […]
[…] to generate the majority of its revenues from digital sources: With the milestone comes a sobering reality already familiar to newspapers and television producers. While digital delivery is becoming a bigger slice of the pie, the overall pie is shrinking […]
[…] the features on his favorite players. He recently said, “I love the day I get a magazine in the mail.” Newspapers are notorious, cutting out value (reporters, editors) to reinforce a suicidal spiral of irrelevancy. Investment and change are tough. […]
[…] ratios, self indulgence and wild proliferation blogging is now a fact of the written word as much as letters, novels, newspapers and emails. I can recall in the early 1990s a penchant in the ether for complaining that people weren’t […]
[…] with real knowledge of their fields speaking directly with an audience of non-experts. On the downside, it seems like many newspapers and magazines are recruiting bloggers for science coverage as a cost-cutting measure. Bloggers seem willing to accept lower pay […]
Does thinking about technology as something new and different gerrymander strategies and initiatives in unhelpful ways? Maybe we need to accept that the future has arrived for our users.
[…] ratios, self indulgence and wild proliferation blogging is now a fact of the written word as much as letters, novels, newspapers and emails. Like many disruptive technologies, a blog’s “weaknesses” — the quick-hit writing with links substituting for wordiness, the […]
Apple’s apparent abuse of its platform dominance may signal a basic incompatibility between providers and platforms.
[…] pressure builds to revert those rights. McGraw-Hill thus joins other book publishers, journals publishers, Hollywood movie studios, television producers, and newspapers in viewing subsidiary rights licenses as short-term opportunities and long-term obstacles for developing their businesses. Vestron’s Law takes its […]
In 2011, the power of the individual consumer will set your strategies.
[…] serious business approaches are coming to the fore. The idea that traffic automatically equals revenue has repeatedly been disproven, and newspapers and television networks are pulling back their free offerings in favor of models that offer a chance for profit. […]
The Wikileaks scandal shows that commercial cloud providers aren’t ready for the realities of publishing and information hosting.
[…] if such a monolithic entity can be said to exist any longer. What do trade books or consumer magazines or newspapers have to do with STM and scholarly information? Does the fact that these various disparate information vehicles used to […]
Is our future defined by third-party aggregators? Or is there a business opportunity there worth fighting for?