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Matt Mayer

'Out of Print' Doc Examines The End of Print Books and What It Portends | Mediashift | PBS - 0 views

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  • Matt Mayer on 03 May 13
     
    'Out of Print' Doc Examines The End of Print Books and What It Portends People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only about six years - counting from when Amazon introduced its Kindle in 2007.
arnie Grossblatt

Print Starts to Settle Into Its Niches - 1 views

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print niches

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 06 Jan 14
     
    Kevin Kelly produces a print version of his free on-line "Cool Tools" website. "Paper is really unnecessary for a lot of things, but very good at certain things. And this turned out to be one of them."
arnie Grossblatt

Google Books and the Judge: The New Yorker - 0 views

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google publishing bookstores print on demand Google Books

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 21 Sep 09
     
    Google is planning to become the worlds largest bookstore with a print-on-demand agreement to give access to two million out-of-print books.
Amanda Straub

theBookseller.com - 0 views

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  • Amanda Straub on 08 Oct 08
     
    Amazon UK is launching a print on demand program (or "programme" as they say), bringing out-of-print and backlist titles back into the market.
Ryan Holman

Disappearing Ink? - The George Washington University - 2 views

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newspapers disappearing print decline bailout

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  • Ryan Holman on 13 Oct 09
     
    Kalb Report panelists' take on the decline of print newspapers and the future of newspaper publishing; focusing on the content and keeping its quality high so that when the eventual medium of delivery is figured out it'll be worth something to the consumer.
Kat Rodenhizer

Oak Knoll makes big business out of niche publishing : James Sturdivant : Book Business - 0 views

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longtail marketing niche

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  • Kat Rodenhizer on 22 Sep 08
     
    A successful example of the Long Tail Theory, Oak Knoll Press, publisher of rare, out of print books, managed to increase its sales this year-despite catering to a niche audience-by focusing on what loyal customers ask for instead of what doesn't sell.
arnie Grossblatt

Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book - 0 views

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publishing print business model comics

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 20 Apr 09 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 Apr 09
     
    The fabulous online comic xkcd is coming out in a print format book. Tag line could be "Publishers? We don't need no stinking publishiers!"
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.
Ellen Levy

New Crowdfunding Site, Unglue.It, Releases Books Stuck in Publishing Limbo | Open Culture - 3 views

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books publishing ebook crowdfunding creative commons

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  • Ellen Levy on 03 Jul 12
     
    Crowdfunding out-of-print books.
  • Bob Johnson on 04 Jul 12
     
    Always good to see small groups thinking outside the box and pooling their money to try something innovative.
arnie Grossblatt

Google Claims Orphan Books, Raising Alarm in Academia - 0 views

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google books copyright fair use orphan works

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 05 Apr 09
     
    Concern the the Google-AAP settlement gives Google an unfair advantage wrt to orphan books and may inhibit scholarly access to these out-of-print works.
Amanda Litvinov

BoSacks speaks out on Mr. Magazine - 0 views

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magazines Mr. Magazine

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  • Amanda Litvinov on 03 Apr 09
     
    To launch or not to launch? A healthy debate on the number of new print magazines, and what that number means.
Derik Dupont

Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Public Domain Books | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

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Google Books Bookstores Google Book Search On Demand Books Public Domain The Long Tail Copyright Wired Magazine Publishers

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  • Derik Dupont on 19 Sep 09
     
    What's hot off the presses come Thursday? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain. Over the
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