Don’t Be Shelfish: Share Your Archive With An Issuu Shelf.

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Sorry for the lame title but it made you look, didn’t it?
Below is an interactive Shelf that just came out of the Issuu labs. It syncs with a folder in My Library on Issuu and updates whenever I add more stuff. It’s perfect for showcasing your archive or a collection of bookmarks.

ZinePal Gets It Right: Proper Re-Packaging and Re-Distribution of Blogs

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You would think that the makers of Zinepal read this blog, but I’m sure it’s just coincidental: A while ago I wrote about similar services FeedJournal and Tabbloid and called for a somewhat different model: Using technology to repackage, edit, and re-distribute blog posts, instead of ‘just’ offering PDF dumps via email.
Now Zinepal does that, [...]

A Catastrophically Mistaken Newspaper Ad

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“New Catastrophically Huge Sunday Edition.”
This poster ad is the accomplishment of a major Danish newspaper; I’ve translated the heading as best I could. It depicts a devastated forest scenery, the publication in question, and a red splash advertising a dirty cheap trial subscription.

I’m sure you can imagine the marketing execs brainstorming for ideas, wanting to [...]

RSS to PDF Converters Showdown: FeedJournal vs. Tabbloid

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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 a [...]

7 Cases to Show You How Digital Publishing Does Not Compete With Print

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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 new [...]

A comment on Scoble’s “JPG Mag’s dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next…”

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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 seems [...]

Only $10.5 Billion to Save the Book Industry: Lay Off 137,500 American Writers

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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 years [...]

Why The Publishing Industry Needs a DRM-free iTunes for Publications

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Anyone interested in music and literature – and the impact of technology on both – keep making the digital music analogy: It took a decade for the music industry to learn how to make money in the digital era, and for the most part they were whining about about it and fighting digital formats and [...]

Mygazines is dead – or how not to launch an online publishing service

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It’s been exiting watching a new online publishing site, Mygazines.com, come out of nowhere and grow like a weed.
I must admit they had things going for them (like a catchy name and reasonable performance overall). It definitely wasn’t a site built overnight.
But it was hard to miss the fact that the Mygazines people were dirty. [...]

The Rolls-Royce of Document Formats: PDF

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I did an interview for PDF Zone about PDF and Issuu. It had a lot of interesting questions about the current and future use of PDF in the wake of the Internet, that didn’t make it in the final interview.
PDF is a defacto standard format, that you either love or hate; but you simply cannot [...]