Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Snowfalls eventually become slush Paid Members Public
Bobbie Johnson on the future of journalism’s shiny new obsession Snowfall [https://medium.com/inside-matter/66b9060333ad] (and its ilk): > Yet almost every example of snowfalling that I’ve seen in action puts reading second to the razzle-dazzle. Can you even remember what happens in Snowfall? Do you remember
Six months to get yourself a mobile strategy Paid Members Public
Talking of mobile (as I just was… [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/07/android_triple_the_development_costs_of_.html] ), I’m looking forward to this year’s Mobile Media Strategies [http://themediabriefinglive.com/mobile-media-strategies/agenda/] event in September (client work allowing). I had a teeny, tiny input into
Think about reader quality, not content quantity Paid Members Public
Kevin Anderson refutes the “content quantity is king” blog post [http://charman-anderson.com/2013/07/01/digital-media-success-beyond-cranking-out-lots-of-low-cost-content/] I wrote about earlier [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/07/content-quality-quantity-productivity.html] : > However, it’s important to remember that volume of content is not the same as commercial success. The figures
Keep shovelling the content... Paid Members Public
A Digiday post on volume of content per full-time staff member [http://www.digiday.com/publishers/whos-winning-at-volume-in-publishing/] has been doing the rounds today: > Digiday looked at several publications — from stalwarts like the New York Times and Forbes to upstarts like Buzzfeed and The Awl — to see how much content
People love genre ebooks Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/ebook-fanatasy-ibooks.jpg] Talking of eBooks, it appears that some categories of books are booming in digital formats [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/06/digital-publishing-genre-fiction/]: > “Certain categories [of eBooks] have a much larger digital adoption than others,” Dobson
The cozy glow of format nostalgia Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/book-formats-new-old.jpg] There’s an interesting post on Teleread by Chris Meadows that digs into the reflexive dislike of eReaders [http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/paper-books-vs-e-books-and-the-clash-of-bookstore-cultures/] that many people have: > When people say they like paper books, the
Libby Powell: giving the margins a voice with radar (Hacks/Hackers Brighton) Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/2d9acfa6e024cd3c04a120459f1d1898973195fe.jpg] * Warning: liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and howling typos. Some of them will be mine, some of them auto-correct’s. But don’t say you weren’t warned…* Libby Powell [http://www.libbypowell.com/] became a hack
Tom Phillips: USvsth3m (Hacks/Hackers Brighton) Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/image.jpg] Warning: liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and howling typos. Some of them will be mine, some of them auto-correct’s. But don’t say you weren’t warned… USvsth3m [http://usvsth3m.com/] is an experiment funded by
