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Amazon versus Captain America Paid Members Public
re/code on Amazon’s rapidly escalating war with media owners [http://recode.net/2014/08/09/amazon-takes-on-disney-and-captain-america/]: > Retail giant Amazon is giving Captain America, Miss Piggy and Maleficent the cold shoulder. Consumers are suddenly unable to place advance orders to buy DVDs or Blu-ray discs of forthcoming films
If you want to know what's wrong with the publishing business… Paid Members Public
…look at the line-up for this year’s “reinvented” PPA conference [http://www.ppa.co.uk/events/ppaconference2014/]. Play a game: try to spot how many speakers there are from outside the mainstream of traditional publishing. The online video session has some smart people on it, but beyond that? A
Publishing guessing game of the day Paid Members Public
Today’s guessing game: who wrote this? > Despite the struggles of the traditional media, there remains an insatiable desire for great reporting, entertaining content, and powerful storytelling. Facebook, Twitter, and the other Silicon Valley-based social sites are amazing distribution platforms, but user generated content alone isn’t enough to
Digital is easy. Journalism is easy. Change is hard. Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/on-the-shelves.jpg] Why is the transition to digital going so badly for most journalism companies? There’s plenty of knowledge out there about how to do good digital journalism, and growing bodies of evidence about how you can derive
Institutional age discrimination won't solve publishing's problems Paid Members Public
Wannabe Hacks has published a particularly annoying article this morning, under the delightful headline Investing in a younger team will only help to serve news organisations [http://wannabehacks.co.uk/2013/06/27/investing-in-a-younger-team-will-only-help-to-serve-news-organisations/] . Ah, yes, young people will solve all the world’s problems, right? I’m so glad
Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby Paid Members Public
I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional newspaper approach to selling their stories
Tactilize: a quick, web-based route to iPad apps Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/Valentin-Squirelo.jpg] While I was at Le Web London last week, I grabbed a few minutes from my frantic liveblogging to chat with [Valentin Squirelo](http://squirelo.com/) of iPad app publishing platform [Tactilize](http://tactilize.com/). The startup
Online publishing is not necessarily the next home of traditional publishers Paid Members Public
Matthew Ingram has written a typically thoughtful and insightful piece about the bind newspaper publishers find themselves in [http://gigaom.com/2012/04/03/why-digital-native-media-will-almost-always-win/], all inspired by this graph from LinkedIn [http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/03/08/economic-report/]: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/
