Neil Perkin: It’s part of the reason why I have such little patience for the view that we all have one self-evident purpose in life and it is simply a matter of being brave enough to follow it. Whilst…
digital disruption
A collection of 4 posts
Are ebook sales really in decline?
Some sobering news for ebook enthusiasts in the New York Times: Sales of adult books fell by 10.3 percent in the first three months of 2016, and children’s books dropped by 2.1 percent. E-book sales fell by…
Has digital disruption for media plateaued?
Charlie Beckett thinks he detects signs of a stabilisation in media’s transition to digital: At last they had a sense of where the battle lines are: mobile, algorithms, native advertising, millennial’s, wearables, etc. They have moved on from…
The death of the one hour photo lab
Sometimes we in media think we’ve been hit hard by digital. Be profoundly glad you don’t run an independent one-hour photo shop: No other business over the past 15 years has died off with the near-totality of the…