Publishing

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

IDG: Going Online and Getting More Profitable Members Public

Here’s a great example of a print publisher starting to make good money from becoming an online business. Colin’s Corner: The transformation of IDG [http://colincrawford.typepad.com/idg/2007/02/the_transformat.html]: > For over four decades we’ve had print blood running through the veins

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalism

Calling A Blog A Blog Members Public

Alex Singleton attempts to explain feeds in RSS – why and how on Samizdata.net [http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/02/rss_why_and_how.html]. Brave soul. For some reason, the two biggest ideas I struggle to communicate to journalists who start blogging are what RSS feeds are,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

More On Green Publishing Members Public

Both Martin Stabe [http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/02/03/whats-worse-dead-trees-or-energy-hungry-networks/] and Wordblog [http://www.wordblog.co.uk/2007/02/03/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-the-internet/] picked up on my post last week musing on the relative environmental impact of print against online publishing.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
environment

Can't See The Wood For The Magazines Members Public

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Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
environment

Digg Me! Newsvine Me! and Other Attention Seeking Tactics Members Public

How useful are “share me” links on articles?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Le Web 3: Is Open Source Becoming Commercial? Members Public

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/319481680/]Apparently, I’m one of the usual suspects. Here I sit, a blogger working at a mainstream media company [http://www.rbi.co.uk/], and the open source advocate is telling me that we all hate the idea of letting go of traditional

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
leweb

Publishing The Topshop Way Members Public

Sign of the times: I discover, via Alice Bachini-Smith [http://www.aliceintexas.com/teatray/?p=496] that Topshop not only allows you to subscribe to fashion update by RSS [http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaticPageDisplay?storeId=12556&catalogId=19551&identifier=ts1%20rss] , it also has

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
fashion

Why Teenagers Don't Read Magazines Members Public

John Naughton [http://molly.open.ac.uk/Personal-pages/OAQs.htm]‘s speech to the Society of Editors [http://www.societyofeditors.co.uk/] conference last week has reprinted in The Observer as Young people don’t like us. Who can blame them? [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1945553,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalism