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Webcast: Digital Bookmaking - 0 views

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  • EPublisher Confesses on 10 Nov 11
     
    Tim O'Reilly presents this webcast on digital bookmaking. I thought this would be fun for us pubies (new publishers). Its a perfect segway into our Monday class discussion. I might take a listen b/c this definitely interests.
Derik Dupont

Are textbooks history in the digital era? | Marketplace From American Public Media - 1 views

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Textbooks Publishers Digital Schools Education Students E-Books

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  • Derik Dupont on 01 Oct 09
     
    Are textbooks history in the digital era? : States across the country are slashing education budgets, forcing schools to cut expenses. One option getting a lot of attention is digital textbooks. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.
arnie Grossblatt

In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks - 0 views

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  • Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students weaned on technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks.
  • According to the National Association of College Stores, digital books make up just under 3 percent of textbook sales, although the association expects that share to grow to 10 percent to 15 percent by 2012 as more titles are made available as e-books.
  • three-quarters of the students surveyed said they still preferred a bound book to a digital version.
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  • The expense of college textbooks, which is estimated to have risen four times the inflation rate in recent years, has become such a concern that some politicians are taking up the cause.
arnie Grossblatt

Amazon unveils Kindle Web app - 2 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 08 Dec 10
     
    Amazon plays catch up to the Google eBookstore
arnie Grossblatt

The Newspaper of the Future - 0 views

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  • It is now clear that it is as disruptive to today's newspapers as Gutenberg's invention of movable type was to the town criers, the journalists of the 15th century.
  • The Internet wrecks the old newspaper business model in two ways. It moves information with zero variable cost, which means it has no barriers to growth, unlike a newspaper, which has to pay for paper, ink and transportation in direct proportion to the number of copies produced.
  • And the Internet's entry costs are low.
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  • These cost advantages make it feasible to make a business out of highly specialized information, a trend that was under way well before the Internet.
  • specialized media had been enjoying more growth than general media.
  • A metropolitan newspaper became a mosaic of narrowly targeted content items. Few read the entire paper, but many read the parts that appealed to their specialized interests
  • Sending everything to everybody was a response to the Industrial Revolution, which rewarded economies of scale
  • Newspapers "keep offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of content, and keep diminishing the quality of that content because their budgets are continually thinner," he said. "This is an absurd choice because the audience least interested in news has already abandoned the newspaper."
  • The newspapers that survive will probably do so with some kind of hybrid content: analysis, interpretation and investigative reporting in a print product that appears less than daily, combined with constant updating and reader interaction on the Web.
  • But the time for launching this strategy is growing short if it has not already passed. The most powerful feature of the Internet is that it encourages low-cost innovation, and anyone can play
  • Clayton Christensen has noted, the very qualities that made companies succeed can be disabling when applied to disruptive innovation. Successful disruption requires risk taking and fresh thinking.
  • One of the rules of thumb for coping with substitute technology is to narrow your focus to the area that is the least vulnerable to substitution.
  • What service supplied by newspapers is the least vulnerable?
  • I still believe that a newspaper's most important product, the product least vulnerable to substitution, is community influence
  • The raw material for this processing is evidence-based journalism, something that bloggers are not good at originating.
  • Newspapers might have a chance if they can meet that need by holding on to the kind of content that gives them their natural community influence. To keep the resources for doing that, they will have to jettison the frivolous items in the content buffet.
  • But it won't be a worthwhile possibility unless the news-paper endgame concentrates on retaining newspapers' core of trust and responsibility
  • arnie Grossblatt on 28 Oct 08
     
    Argues that newspapers will need to get smaller and more focused on establishing trust-based influence. Interesting.
Helen Nam

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make an e-paper clock from Esquire magazine - 0 views

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  • Helen Nam on 16 Oct 08
     
    This article discusses how to turn the e-ink cover of Esquire into a working clock. There is also a brief discussion of the cover and how it works, as well as pictures of the cover.
Derik Dupont

Magazines Team Up to Tout 'Power of Print' - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Magazines Publishers Print Advertising Web Time Warner Inc. Hearst Condé Nast Wenner Media Meredith

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  • Derik Dupont on 04 Mar 10
     
    Last year, magazine executives spent much of their time detailing how they planned to take their brands digital. Now,five major magazines are teaming up on a multimillion-dollar campaign touting the 'power of print.' " />
Derik Dupont

Where Should Aggregators Draw the Line? - Jason Fell - Blogs Editorial @ FolioMag.com - 0 views

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News Aggregators Content Traffic Web Publishers

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  • Derik Dupont on 15 Mar 10
     
    Old question renewed during BusinessWeek's Media Summit.
Ryan Holman

Tester: Leave no public document off the web - 0 views

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Jon Tester public access database public domain government publishing access

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  • Ryan Holman on 10 May 10
     
    Sen Jon Tester (D-MT) has proposed a law that would take something like FRPPA one step further, putting most public government documents (e.g., who lobbies the White House, not gov't personnel files) into a searchable database. This would be an improvement in granting access to the public as currently there is a fair amount of hard-copy red tape that must be gone through under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain these documents.
Derik Dupont

New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January - WSJ.com - 0 views

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New York Times Co. Charging Online Web Newspapers Publishers

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  • Derik Dupont on 18 May 10
     
    The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association. " />
arnie Grossblatt

Reading in a Digital Age - 0 views

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publishing e-books reading culture novels Google web 2.0

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 May 10
     
    Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary
Mark Schreiber

How Google's New Hatred of "Content Farms" Could Rearrange the Media Business - 0 views

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publishing content farms search

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  • Mark Schreiber on 24 Jan 11
     
    "A broad definition would burst the content farm media bubble - there are far more news sites than consumers could possibly need - which has been growing the last few years. By the same token, such a move would leave legit news sites - such as the Times - riding higher in the rankings. Google could, in other words, kill off much of the competition that has vexed traditional media on the web in a single blow."
Michael Pogachar

Google readies social news magazine app - 0 views

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  • Michael Pogachar on 17 Sep 11
     
    Google is working on a social news magazine for iPad and Android devices
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