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A Few Thoughts About Why the Kindle Won’t Save the Publishing Industry
Dec 10, 2008 4:25
(Image courtesy of) In my last post, I noted that the Kindle might not save a publishing industry trying to turn digital “threats” into advantages. Today I discovered a post by writer Charles Stross, who talks about a similar reader, the Sony PRS-505: I’ve been thinking for a while that e-paper machines like the PRS-505 [...]
Why The Publishing Industry Needs a DRM-free iTunes for Publications
Dec 9, 2008 7:59
Anyone interested in music and literature – and the impact of technology on both – keep making the digital music analogy: It took a decade for the music industry to learn how to make money in the digital era, and for the most part they were whining about about it and fighting digital formats and [...]
Mygazines is dead – or how not to launch an online publishing service
Oct 15, 2008 4:58
It’s been exiting watching a new online publishing site, Mygazines.com, come out of nowhere and grow like a weed. I must admit they had things going for them (like a catchy name and reasonable performance overall). It definitely wasn’t a site built overnight. But it was hard to miss the fact that the Mygazines people [...]
The Rolls-Royce of Document Formats: PDF
Sep 2, 2008 3:23
I did an interview for PDF Zone about PDF and Issuu. It had a lot of interesting questions about the current and future use of PDF in the wake of the Internet, that didn’t make it in the final interview. PDF is a defacto standard format, that you either love or hate; but you simply [...]
Finally an online PDF viewer that runs WITHOUT Flash
Aug 4, 2008 6:37
I’m pleased to share a great piece of news from the Issuu laboratories. It’s something that should thrill Flash-haters and PDF lovers alike: The world’s first online publication viewer that runs completely without Flash. Well, at least I think it’s the world’s first, as I’ve just tried running Zinio, Zmags, Scribd and the rest of [...]
Gerd Leonhard gets online music licensing right
Jun 27, 2008 6:40
He’s a fast talker, but author/futurist Gerd Leonhard gets it right: The future of music is not really about copyright but about permission (we are not copying – we are using). Now ‘all’ we need to do, is persuade the major labels. One positive example is Danish ISP TDC (Danish only, sorry) who bought the [...]
Old media, new strategy: Sell out to readers
Apr 3, 2008 4:14
Ok, so maybe the title doesn’t seem so radical. Newspapers have always been sold to readers, right? Take a look at what the free newspaper Amsterdam Weekly is doing. Facing financial challenges, like most print media businesses do these days, they decided a radical approach: Sell out – to the readers. So, each page of [...]
My interview on Advertising Anarchy
Mar 14, 2008 3:47
I had the chance to talk about online advertising etc. on Advertising Anarchy’s blog a few days ago. The blog takes a critical look on advertising in relation to the massive SXSW festival and is run by Door 3, including a few of the guys from the brilliant Austin subculture magazine, Misprint. A few highlights [...]
Newspaper 2.0, finally?
Feb 28, 2008 6:38
After a very quick look at BBC’s new homepage, I’d say they just made a bold move in the right direction, compared to NYT, who everyone else seems to think are the cutting edge of newspaper 2.0. NYT does have a members-only MyTimes page, tugged away safely here, but BBC goes all-in transforming their entire [...]
Virtual magazines for a virtual world
Feb 20, 2008 7:40
There are people who claim they live in Second Life. Now there are magazines about Second Life too. Watching the document inflow on Issuu, I randomly came across two publishers of such magazines. One is called Second Style and it’s about fashion in SL and is edited by ‘Celebrity Trollop’ (gotta love that name). What [...]