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DIY Zine Culture Goes Digital
Mar 10, 2009 1:55
I was asked to talk a bit about Issuu by Zine Arcade, who really liked the possibilities to publish online. Here are a few bits of it (the least promoting parts): Issuu is the ideal platform for the zine community. I myself have been very inspired by the old b/w DIY culture, and that movement [...]
How Many Reporters Do We Need?
Feb 18, 2009 5:25
How Many Reporters Does It Take To Unscrew A Lightbulb? I don’t have the exact answer to this question, but as I argue below looking at just some of the trouble in today’s newspaper industry, the answer is probably ‘Too many, and too well paid’. Steve Rubel had an interesting post yesterday, stating that the [...]
Get Started With A Digital Publishing Strategy
Feb 17, 2009 8:14
For publishers interested in tips to how to get started with a digital publishing strategy, I wrote a very hands-on post on the Issuu blog. It has a lot of examples and cases, which hopefully can inspire anyone wanting to take a crack at getting their publications (excerpts, promotional/free publications and marketing material/catalogs) online and [...]
Any Bloggers Out There Using Print As A Revenue Source? No? There Ought To Be
Jan 12, 2009 8:20
Thinking a bit more on the topic of my previous post, about RSS-to-PDF conversion services, I would like to propose a way for these services to make actual money. Like I already said, I hardly think anyone will pay to get their feeds as PDF attachments over email, as many free RSS-to-email services are available [...]
RSS to PDF Converters Showdown: FeedJournal vs. Tabbloid
Jan 8, 2009 6:32
Blogging is publishing, right? But it never really achieves that print-and-ink feeling, right? Wrong. Well, sort of. I’ve been playing with two blog-to-PDF services (actually RSS-to-PDF), as it’s a nice thing to compile your precious writings once in a while. You can email it to your Mom who doesn’t get blogging, or print it to [...]
Mygazines is Back From the Dead, Now Trying to Make a Buck
Jan 7, 2009 14:19
I’m pretty sure I was one of the first to note that Mygazines, the dirty and thus popular magazine sharing site, was dead. Now, I came across this 22 days old random tweet, and curiously followed the old URL to see what was up. Yes, indeed, Mygazines is back. [Update: Digging around a bit more, [...]
7 Cases to Show You How Digital Publishing Does Not Compete With Print
Jan 6, 2009 1:31
Sorry for stating in the title what’s obvious to you educated readers. But after reading a highly qualified rant by Kassia Krozser’s over at Booksquare, it’s clear that publishers think differently. Luckily Kassia spells it out to them: Ebooks are a new, different market. You, dear publishers, have been given that rarest of gifts: a [...]
A comment on Scoble’s “JPG Mag’s dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next…”
Jan 5, 2009 7:15
Robert Scoble has a great post about the demise of the wonderful JPG Mag (which may not happen after all). He talks about the (advertising) value of photography and gives great advise to any ad-funded business out there. You should go read it now! It spawned a few thoughts of my own, reposted below. It [...]
Only $10.5 Billion to Save the Book Industry: Lay Off 137,500 American Writers
Dec 13, 2008 11:16
According to Paul Greenberg in New York TImes, it could cost as little as $10.5 billion to solve the writing crisis. “According to the industry tracker Bowker, about 275,000 new titles and editions are published in the United States each year. Let’s say we want to eliminate half of them. Assuming it takes about two [...]
How Google Book Search Turns Publications Into “Marketing” And Why We Should (Moderately) Love Them for It
Dec 11, 2008 3:41
Google Book Search, the not-so-catchy name for probably the biggest undertaking in history towards the complete digitalization of print-based knowledge, just announced that they’ll now be hosting magazine content in addition to books. An example. Popular Mechanics is a magazine that’s been published for a century. Think of all that knowledge, locked in that impractical [...]