Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
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
Publishers: getting busy in the (terminal) milking shed Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/cows.jpg] Bit of a farmyard metaphor at work in the journalism blogs this morning: Roy Greenslade [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/may/29/newsquest-downturn]: > You have to hand it to Newsquest/Gannett. They certainly
