Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Habits change slowly Paid Members Public
[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 1 Nov 2012 20:43.jpg) Once upon a time, when I had time to kill in a station before catching a train, I used to browse the
Online publishing needs to get personal Paid Members Public
Andrew Sullivan nails why traditional publishing brands struggle [http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/why-not-do-away-with-print.html] to bring their readers with them online, in a piece about personal migration on reading from print to digital forms: > But it takes guts to actually make the change. An individual can, overnight.
Reed Elsevier: a business model under pincer attack Paid Members Public
Robert Andrews highlights the political dangers to the traditional Reed Elsevier [http://www.reedelsevier.com/] business model, by quoting a research note from Berstein Research’s Claudio Aspesi [http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/10/open-access-research-catastrophic-for-reed-elsevier/] : > We think the risk posed to the Elsevier business model is substantial. We believe
Publication disruption denial: a lifecycle Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/graveyard-shadow.jpg] Five steps: 1. “We’re a print business and we always have been”. 2. “Digital will be important, but we have to prioritise print, where our profits are right now”. 3. “We’ll go digital first from
B2B publishers no more Paid Members Public
From Patrick Smith’s Media Briefing e-mail a couple of weeks ago [http://briefingmedialtd.createsend1.com/t/r-e-hkxdhk-mdyykuip-hl/](it was two days after my daughter was born, so I was a bit too busy to read it back then 😉 ) : > In this context, should I stop saying “publisher” to refer
Messages about Medium, an Obvious new publishing tool Paid Members Public
Well, look at that. Another web tool to reinvent social publishing that we hoi polloi can’t use yet. The Medium might to be the message this time – the users given access to the Medium are. Anil Dash made some good points earlier that this “private quasi-public beta” is actually
Is Google getting into print? Paid Members Public
Kevin May [http://www.tnooz.com/2012/08/13/news/google-buys-frommers-destination-content-in-search-just-got-a-little-bit-more-interesting/] : > It is also unknown as yet as to whether Frommer’s will continue as a standalone brand, as well as if Google will effectively become a printed guidebook publisher – a massive leap from its online-only world. One possible
Building my own iPad magazine every morning Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2012/08/in-my-pocket-ipad-2720.html] In 2001, when I first became aware of blogging and RSS feeds, I used to speculate about magazines of the future, built of feeds which allowed you to select the reporters, reviewers and commenters that mattered to you. In
