Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
News: Can't Give It Away Paid Members Public
I’ve mentioned before [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/04/why_free_devalues_print.html] that I think the urban freesheets like Metro and the London Paper have been pretty effectively devaluing news for a while. I’m sat drinking a coffee in Farringdon, as I arrived rather early
So Long, And Thanks For All The Print Paid Members Public
Some really excellent advice here for publishers trying to get to grips with the structural change in the industry: > …let’s think about what might happen when magazine publishing is no longer a river in its own right, but is just a current in the digital ocean. Magazines are
dConstruct09 for Publishers Paid Members Public
My bosses’ boss went to dConstruct last week, and all I got was this list of links and thoughts [http://bloggingrbi.blogspot.com/2009/09/dconstruct09-deconstructed.html].
Location Good, Tracking Dumb Paid Members Public
A good idea in publishing: Geolocation information in Twitter [http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html], and here’s why it’s a good idea [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/08/20/geotwitter-and-news-and-more/]. A bad idea in publishing: Tracking scripts in content [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/what-the-associated-press-tracking-beacon-is-and-what-it-isnt/
The News Industry's Dunkirk Paid Members Public
The Guardian’s published a superbly-written piece by Simon Jenkins [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/newpaper-internet-paywall-murdoch-live] today, that catches exactly what I think about paywalls, the state of the publishing business and our route out of this quagmire: > At present the newspaper industry is like
The Second Paid Content Experiment Begins Paid Members Public
So, it’s happened, as we all knew it would. Rupert Murdoch is taking his online sites paid-for. From the BBC story on the announcement [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8186701.stm]: > In order to stop readers from moving to the huge number of free news
A Brief Flirtation with Daily Newspapers Paid Members Public
I’ve been doing something for the last few weeks that I don’t normally do: I’ve been buying a daily newspaper. And here’s why: [](https:
Some Good Reading About The Future of News Paid Members Public
Good stuff I’ve read recently, haven’t linked to yet, but don’t have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] – an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media