Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
German publishers push tablets Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/04/german-publishing-marketing.jpg] This time last week I was in Berlin for NEXT Berlin [http://nextberlin.eu]. One interesting thing I noted was how hard the German publishers were working to get the digital industry to look at their tablet
Still doomed, after all these years Paid Members Public
Private Frazer’s Doomed Magazines is five years old [http://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/five-years-down/]. At this rate it might out-live the industry: > Actually, of course publishing will survive, but in five years time there will be fewer titles and fewer big companies. Magazines will continue to
You don't own your PageRank, so you can't sell it Paid Members Public
My, my. It’s been an interesting few days for web publishers, hasn’t it? Interflora’s Search Death First of all, Google wiped Interflora [http://martinmacdonald.net/interflora-seo-penalty/] from the search rankings: > Searching for the terms [Flowers], [florist], [flower delivery], [flowers online] and hundreds of other related search
Digital news formats: the BBC explores linked data Paid Members Public
Fascinating blog post exploring how the BBC is experimenting with linked data [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogbbcinternet/posts/BBC-News-Lab]: > After producing a long list of possible ‘problem spaces’ we prioritised four areas to explore: * Location and linked data. How might we use geolocation and linked data to
Push button Newsstand publishing? Paid Members Public
Is Newsstand publishing about to become as easy as blogging [http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/12/29th-street-publishing-wants-to-make-selling-magazines-for-ipads-as-easy-as-blogging/] ? > Publishing to a Newsstand app looks a lot like publishing a blog post, a matter of filling in fields — but instead of hitting “Publish” and winding up at a URL, you pop
PubSubHubub: fat pings for publishers Paid Members Public
Here’s an issue many people aren’t aware of: > Does Google Reader really only poll feeds once an hour? bit.ly/RSU9Ia [http://t.co/5btxsxxv] Bit of a fail for use on a news desk if so #journalism [https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism] — John Thompson (@johncthompson) November
On journalism and scale Paid Members Public
Felix Salmon [http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/06/the-ft-in-play/]: > And there’s another inconvenient fact for would-be acquirers of the FT: journalism doesn’t have economies of scale. The bigger that journalistic organizations become, the less efficient they get: salaries rise, new layers of editors and managers
The decline and fall of the dictionary Paid Members Public
The Next Web [http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/11/05/another-one-bites-the-dust-macmillan-dictionaries-cease-print-to-go-online-only/] : > […] another well-known brand in the print-based publishing sphere is unfurling the white flag and giving in to the digital revolution, with Macmillan Dictionaries ceasing print to go online only. While we were sorting books to go on the
