[…] nature of the content itself, as it will have a new kind of customer to please. Content — journals, books, newspapers, sporting events — is shaped by the market if faces. We should contemplate this with the emergence of Gold […]
[…] eliminate or consolidate beats over the past decade. Things continue to balance on a knife’s edge for most newsmagazines and newspapers, so it’s nice to see a success story. But even at the Atlantic, you see some of the problems […]
[…] business-to-business (B2B) subscriptions. There is scarcely a college or corporation of any size that does not receive a stack of newspapers every day, the Times and the Wall Street Journal among them. If you arrive at a skyscraper in Manhattan […]
[…] of evolution, where the important characteristics of a form are recognized and emphasized. Cory Doctorow makes a similar argument regarding newspapers. He links to an audio clip of HG Wells declaring the newspaper “as dead as mutton” in 1943 because […]
[…] touching on the same topic generally — the continued and rapid reinvention of the news business. Robert Scoble is urging newspapers to iterate fast, and to behave like a technology industry. He makes a compelling argument, basically that users are […]
The Kindle’s use-case isn’t what I’d assumed. In fact, I’m thinking very differently about it.
[…] people in the process. More than 99% of the stories linked in blogs came from legacy news outlets such as newspapers and broadcast networks, with 80% of the links going to just four — the BBC, CNN, the New York […]
Image via Wikipedia There seems to be a trend emerging — open access-friendly pieces appearing in major newspapers, pieces apparently originating from London. A couple of weeks ago, George Monbiot published a rant in the Guardian about open access, one […]
[…] Begins Now” from an e-ink display attached to the cover. The president of E-Ink has also forecasted that commercial e-ink newspapers will be big by the end of 2009. The Esquire cover will last about 90 days before the little […]
Jason Lanier’s manifesto about the open culture exposes its lack of ingenuity, its commercial depredations, its amoral world view, and its elitist predilections. It’s worth reading in full.
When an outsider looks in, the opportunities in the changing media landscape become crystal clear. Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, recently gazed into the publishing house and has plenty of great observations.
[…] travelling or when a lot is happening in the world, I struggle to connect with books. In those times, magazines, newspapers and podcasts absorb my then-especially short attention span. When this happens, I look for a good “world-building” novel to […]
[…] saw it on my visit: the Marie Celeste of the library world, books left where readers had put them down, newspapers growing increasingly outdated on the desks, lights still turning themselves on at 8am and off at 5pm. Staff were […]
We are into the 8th month of Russia’s war against Ukraine. How has the scholarly publishing sector continued to respond?
[…] then report on these studies as if they represented vetted science. How bad is this problem? A recent search of newspapers of record like the New York Times and the Washington Post suggests that these generally do a good job […]