Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
When digital goes shopping for print Paid Members Public
Tortoise wants The Observer. Unherd has got The Spectator, and installed a new editor. The relationship between tradition print-era brands and digital startups has suddenly reversed.
WordPress just lost its default status for publishers Paid Members Public
The battle between Automattic and WP Engine has exposed an unexpected vlunerability of the WordPress ecosystem — and it's one publishers should be wary of.
This is how the future media ecosystem will look Paid Members Public
The death of Buzzfeed News and the bankrupty of Vice make it clear how the new media ecosystem is developing: it's surprisingly… nautical?
What is a newsletter? Paid Members Public
Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.
Four things publishers should give up in 2023 Paid Members Public
Digital publishing moves so fast it can be hard to keep track of what works, and what doesn’t. Here are the things you need to be letting go of right now.
If you don’t understand attention, you don’t understand digital publishing Paid Members Public
Producing less content can be more profitable than creating more - and the reasons why hark back to the fundamental structure of the internet.
Spotify is trying to become podcasting's gatekeeper. We musn't let them. Paid Members Public
While Spotify's acqusition of The Ringer is good news for the journalists involved, it's part of a worrying trend in podcasting
One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0 Paid Members Public
I've just updated the Ghost CMS I use to run this blog to version 2.0 - and it's a little glimpse of the future.
