Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
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Good stuff Iāve read recently, havenāt linked to yet, but donāt have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] ā an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media
I have a confession: the news paywall debate irritates me. It irritates me, because this discussion was had years ago, and discussed with a great deal of depth and intelligence across the emergent publishing and journalism blogosphere. And then it was promptly ignored by the majority of the publishing industry
Journalism
I have one of those long, ranty blog posts building in me right now.This isnāt it. But if you want to know what it might be about, there are two things you should know:1. With the news that NetNewsWire, my RSS reader of choice, is [now syncing
monetisation
Thereās an interesting paragraph in Cory Doctorowās review [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/28/cory-doctorow-free-chris-anderson] of Chris Andersonās new book Free [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905211473?ie=UTF8&tag=fishnefedora-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&
Kindle: the problem is not technological but business. 70:30 split between Amazon and publishers. Nobody can afford to do that right now. Ā Kevin sees the iPhone, with its new ability for in-app charging more interesting. The Kindle isnāt social, as someone in the crowd pointed out.Some discussion
Journalism
Andy Ihnatko on why the term āMainstream Mediaā is meaningless [http://ihnatko.com/index.php/2009/06/28/the-mainstream-media/]: > You waste your shot by blaming it on The Mainstream Media instead. When I get to the end of your heroic screed Iām tempted to click the āComment On
Local News
Ah, the fuss around Digital Britain is growing, isnāt it? And I donāt just mean the report ā I mean how Britain looks in a digital future. Events like a judge giving The Times approval to reveal the identity of an anonymous police blogger [http://www.guardian.co.uk/
community
This is all interesting stuff: > you canāt build a community it is either there or itās not. You know you have a community if it takes care of itself YOU are the asset of a community and not the other way around the best community leaders come
Journalism
Not to be alarmist or anything: Well worth watching all the way through. [via Suw [http://twitter.com/Suw/statuses/2030071348]]
art
What a fantastic experiment: [https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/05/cover_newyorker_190.jpg] The cover of the latest issue of the New Yorker was painted on an iPhone [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/05/jorge-colombo-iphone-cover.html] . A willingness to experiment is
commuting
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/05/DSCF1017.jpg] And as we move through the paper, itās all celebrity tat, with a smattering of real news. Gordon Ramsey has a new PR person! Wow! Hold the presses! [Some banker has had to knock Ā£22m off
magazines
Depressing news of the day ā the big three US business magazines are in a bad financial place [http://247wallst.com/2009/05/03/the-sun-sets-on-businessweek-forbes-and-fortune/] . Letās hope they find a route out of this, [via Adrian Monck [http://adrianmonck.com/]]
