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Posted in Publishing, customer experience, social networks on Aug 30th, 2007
Increasingly, individuals are using several different social networks to interact with others online, and to share their thoughts and experiences. For Steve Rubel, he seems to have found a solution with a service called Tumblr:
“Over the last few months I have really changed how and where I create content. For a long time all of the […]
Posted in Publishing, social media, B2B on Aug 17th, 2007
The Boston Globe looks at how the Internet is allowing musicians to connect directly with their audience, and keep more profits in the process:
“Increasingly, recording artists and consumers are uniting and circumventing traditional channels for creating and distributing music,” said Mike Goodman, a media and entertainment analyst at Yankee Group in Boston. “These days, musicians […]
Posted in Publishing, aggregation, magazines, web, journalism on Aug 8th, 2007
Two interesting stories on how the ubiquity of information on the web is making it very challenging for traditional publishers to differentiate their content from the competition.
27/7 Wall Street comments on how Portfolio, the new magazine from Conde Nast, is having a hard time offering anything timely or unique on their website:
“Why would so few […]
Posted in web metrics, Publishing on Aug 7th, 2007
The New York Times looks into the affect that Amazon’s sales ranking has had on the book publishing industry:
“When Amazon created the system 10 years ago, it could hardly have known how greatly its list would change the dynamics of the publishing business (much the way the company itself did) or how hard writers and […]
Posted in web metrics, Publishing on Jun 11th, 2007
Michael Arrington reflects on the success of Technorati, and how they are an interesting case study for the power of links. He assumes that their tagging links have helped push them to the top of search engine results, as Google and the rest place a high value on links. However, this may turn out […]
Posted in Publishing, newspapers, news on Jun 9th, 2007
Wall Street Journal reporters had a chat with Rupert Murdoch, who commented on how the web is affecting traditional media:
“We’ve got to find new ways and new business models to get revenues. Or else the world is going to be owned by Google… The Internet is a great leveler. All newspapers count for less these […]
Posted in Publishing, newspapers on May 4th, 2007
The New York Times reports on more ways the book publishing and newspaper industries are changing:
“The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, meanwhile, has recently eliminated the job of its book editor, leading many fans to worry that book coverage will soon be provided mostly by wire services and reprints from national papers… Book reviews will now be overseen […]
Posted in print, advertising, Publishing, aggregation on Apr 17th, 2007
Scott Karp looks at two watershed moments in publishing:
New York Times becomes an aggregator.
Scott is referring to the Times’ relaunched auto section of their website, which includes aggregated content and tools.
Print ad revenue is no longer the majority of B2B publisher revenue.
Scott is referring to a recent ABM report that B2B publishers now earn more […]
Posted in Google, Publishing, content, aggregation, search on Apr 11th, 2007
Read/Write Web proclaims that Google is the ultimate money making machine on the internet. They focus on some classic supply & demand examples, and explain why so many niche companies and markets are trying to emulate Google in some way. Instead of being a destination, websites are trying to become more of an essential service, […]
Posted in Publishing on Mar 31st, 2007
Books. We love to shop for them, hold them, display them, talk about them, and occasionally even read them - but what lies in their future? I can’t help but feel that fiction and nonfiction will take two distinct paths. Today, I will be mostly exploring the evolution of nonfiction.
The limits of books.
Thinking about the […]
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