Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
attention
Don Brown [http://donbrownsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/why-content-isnt-quite-king/]: > Publishers do have lots of content, but a) there are lots of publishers (including online-only ones who have never put ink on paper in their lives) and b) there are lots of websites built purely to be packed with
business models
I wonder how long scientific publishers can cling to their existing models when they’re eliciting this level of active hostility from their customers [http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/]: > Once I did hear about Elsevier’s behaviour, I made a conscious decision not to publish in
ebooks
This is an interesting watch for anyone interested in ebook publishing: [[via O’Reilly Radar](http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/11/web-first-workflows-publishers.html)]
books
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/10/fontofall.jpg] A webcartoonist laments [http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/cold-dead-fingers-dept.html]: > I’ve seen examples of the beautiful work being done in interactive ebooks for children. They depress me. Kids are in a world of their
community
Idle thought, born of a conversation with a colleague [http://twitter.com/#!/KatieICISHeren]: Have we reached the point where having a social publishing strategy is no longer an advantage, but not having one is a massive competitive disadvantage?If we haven’t, it must be imminent.
iPad
George Brock: > Given the eye-popping sales of the iPad, people are inclined to wonder out loud if tablets will “save” journalism. Wrong question. No platform or technology will “save” anything which depends so completely on the content and how good or bad it is.Absolutely right. The questions people
archiving
An interesting debate has popped up about the permanence (or lack of it) of the conversations happening in blogs. Gina Trapani kicked it off [http://smarterware.org/8026/why-not-tumblr] with a post about why she’s not following the neophile herd onto Tumblr [http://www.steverubel.me/post/6583713687/tumblr-is-the-next-great-social-network]
mobile
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124385392@N01/5832360338] I’m having a bit of a ho-hum day at the Mobile Media Strategies event – my gut feeling is that I’m the wrong audience for the conference. It feels more like a conference for very senior level executives who kinda know
computer weekly
 Patrick Smith does some analysis of changes here at RBI [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-03-30/board-shake-up-at-rbi-follows-computer-weekly-sell-off] following the sale of Computer Weekly and Microscope. Some
iPad
Horace Dediu [http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/10/the-ipodtouchipad/]: > In that context, yesterday’s WebOS event was perhaps anticlimactic. But it’s still remarkable. Consider how far we’ve come. Step back now and remember the dark days only one year ago when, right after the iPad announcement,
Journalism
So, it appears that I don’t need to write a blog post today, because I replied to an e-mail from Jude Townend, and she used it to write one instead [http://jtownend.com/2010/10/20/journalism-outside-journalism/]: > One thought that stayed with me came from Adam Tinworth, serial
events
My diary is filling up alarmingly right now, and it has been a hectic couple of days, but I just wanted to pause a second and blog a little about a talk I gave to the APA – the Association of Publishing Agencies [https://the-cma.com] – yesterday. It was pretty much