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arnie Grossblatt

The Newspaper of the Future - 0 views

www.ajr.org/Article.asp

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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.
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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.
Matt Mayer

Why can't ebooks disrupt the college textbook business - 1 views

www.fastcolabs.com/...tive-college-textbook-business

shared by Matt Mayer on 09 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Matt Mayer on 09 Apr 14
     
    This won't be shocking, but there's a clear disconnect between publishers and an important market segment.
arnie Grossblatt

Books After Amazon - 3 views

www.bostonreview.net/...roychoudhuri.php

publishers books ebooks Amazon Google business model

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 02 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • kaysha johnston on 02 Dec 10
     
    A pretty damning article about Amazon
  • arnie Grossblatt on 03 Jan 11
     
    Interesting read on the disruptive role of Amazon in book publishing.
Brian Suszek

Plastic Logic plans 2012 launch for color e-paper display -- Engadget - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...unch-for-color-e-paper-display

shared by Brian Suszek on 13 May 10 - Cached
  • Brian Suszek on 13 May 10
     
    Will color really be disruptive by 2012?
arnie Grossblatt

Gutenberg 2.0 | - 6 views

harvardmagazine.com/...gutenberg-2-0

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 17 May 10
     
    How the Harvard Library is coping with disruptive change.
arnie Grossblatt

Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries - 1 views

www.wired.com/...pt-music-publishing-industries

publishing publishers copyright

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 15 Nov 09 - Cached
  • “The termination that’s going to be coming up is going to be a big problem for the record companies and publishers,
Michael Pogachar

Disruptions: Your Brain on E-Books and Smartphone Apps - 1 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...on-e-books-and-smartphone-apps

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shared by Michael Pogachar on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Michael Pogachar on 01 Oct 12
     
    Ever swiped a printed page instead of turning it?
Sharon Salonen

BISG Panelists: More Change Coming - 1 views

www.publishersweekly.com/...elists-more-change-coming.html

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shared by Sharon Salonen on 29 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Sharon Salonen on 29 Sep 12
     
    The future of publishing in the next few years... "more dramatic, disruptive change ahead," said Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah.
arnie Grossblatt

Is Print Dead? (Infographic) - 2 views

sketchee.com/...is-print-dead-infographic.html

publishing print disruption books newspapers

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 17 Sep 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 17 Sep 10
     
    Some stats on the state of print.
arnie Grossblatt

Cory Doctorow:Net Neutrality for Writers: It's All About the Leverage - 2 views

www.locusmag.com/...ers-its-all-about-the-leverage

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • If Net Neutrality is clobbered the way the telcos hope it will be, the next Web or YouTube won’t come from disruptive inventors in a garage; it will come from the corporate labs at one of the five big media consortia or one of a handful of phone and cable companies.
  • Here’s something every creator, every free speech advocate, every copyright maximalist and every copyfighter should agree on: allowing the channels to audiences to be cornered by a handful of incumbents is bad news for all of us. It doesn’t matter that the lame-duck, sellout FCC won’t stand up for us. It doesn’t matter that Canada’s CRTC and the UK’s Ofcom are no better, that regulators around the world are as toothless as newborns. This is the big fight for us – the fight over who gets to decide who will be heard and how.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 12 Jan 11
     
    The always interesting and worthwhile Cory Doctorow on what limits on Net Neutrality could mean for writers and publishers. \n
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