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Paul Riccardi

Postal Rate Expected to Increase 4 Percent - Design and Production @ FolioMag.com - 0 views

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budget postage increase

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  • Paul Riccardi on 21 Jan 09
     
    I know this is going to affect my publishing budget for this year.
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.
Helen Nam

Amazon.com: Confessions of a Butcher-eat steak on a hamburger budget and save$$$: John ... - 0 views

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kindle amazon pricing

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  • Helen Nam on 02 Mar 09
     
    Amazon charged $29.95 for the digital version of Confessions of a Butcher when the paperback cost only $11.95. After an outdry -- including a posting by the author's wife -- Amazon reduced the ebook price to $10.76
arnie Grossblatt

Book Lover: A Good Editor Is Hard to Find - WSJ.com - 0 views

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books editorial

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  • But without strong editors, writers are like cars with accelerators but no brakes.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 17 Nov 08
     
    Makes the case for a firm hand in the editorial office and bemoans budget cuts that eliminate editorial positions. "But without strong editors, writers are like cars with accelerators but no brakes. "
arnie Grossblatt

Kindle Books for Public Libraries - 2 views

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amazon drm ebook reader digital divide

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 22 Sep 11
     
    Amazon announces that 11,000 libraries are now set for loaning Kindle e-books to patrons. How much of library budgets will go to support a reading format that only the relatively well-off can use?
Kori Kamradt

Pearson Answers Schwarzenegger's Call for E-Textbooks - 0 views

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e-books text books California

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  • Kori Kamradt on 19 Jun 09
     
    Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed replacing school textbooks with e-books in order to help plug a state budget gap. Now, textbook giant Pearson has responded with digital content to supplement California's programs in biology, chemistry, algebra 2, and geometry.
  • Amanda Litvinov on 19 Jun 09
     
    Let the revolution begin!!
arnie Grossblatt

The Newspaper of the Future - 0 views

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newspapers publishers

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 28 Oct 08 - Cached
  • 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.
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • 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.
Paul Riccardi

Hard-Hit Niche Publishers Rethink Strategies - Sales and Marketing @ FolioMag.com - 0 views

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advertising budget economy magazine

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  • Paul Riccardi on 21 Jan 09
     
    Sorry, this didn't seem to bookmark the first time. But it looks like niche magazines are getting hit hard by lost advertising revenue.
Kristen Spina

Condé Nast: Men's Vogue to be absorbed into Vogue - MarketWatch - 0 views

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publishing budget cuts

shared by Kristen Spina on 30 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Kristen Spina on 30 Oct 08
     
    Our boss sent us this article. It shows the impact of the economic crises on the publishing industry. Pretty depressing for us!
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