Publishing

Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.

A number of supertankers on the sea, surrounded by smaller boast. A media ecosystem metaphor.

This is how the future media ecosystem will look 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?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Publishing

What is a newsletter? Members Public

Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
newsletters
An illustration of to web publishers meditating in a zen fashion.

Four things publishers should give up in 2023 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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Publishing

If you don’t understand attention, you don’t understand digital publishing 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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
attention

Spotify is trying to become podcasting's gatekeeper. We musn't let them. 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
podcasting

One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0 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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ghost

Apple's acquisition of Texture, and what it might mean for the iOS news ecosystem Members Public

Apple has acquired a major US digital magazine subscription service. If you needed evidence it was serious about Apple News, this is it. But does this mean publishers should take Apple News more seriously?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
apple news

Medium, serialization and the death of Matter Members Public

Talking of Medium, as we were [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/02/medium-tech-startup-elte.html] , Matt Locke had a great idea on how Medium could bring a new but familiar business model to the journalism web [https://medium.com/storythings-ltd/the-future-of-medium-should-be-episodic-91a29467a14a#.mrzxsuhzj] : > There is another, intriguing possibility – building a

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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