Its good to see that Magazine Week, which we blogged earlier in the year, is coming to fruition. I like the 10 amazing facts about magazines.
Jeremy Leslie blogs that the YouTube video produced in support makes him weep. He is right. The idea of a YouTube video is good, but this promo is cringe-making, and way too self-regarding. Magazine Week needs an altruistic, engaging, or ‘other regarding’ aspect if it is to make a similar impact to … Keep Reading
There is an old rule of software development which says that it is a very bad idea to talk in public about developments before you implement them. But this is August, and blogs are not press releases, so here goes.
We have had a growing chorus of requests for institutional access to some of our magazines. Mostly from universities, but not just from them, also from businesses.
We have decided that we will support institutional access via IP-addresses, but … Keep Reading
The first edition of the first issue is rare and valuable. We missed the midsummer frenzy, but several members of my family have already purchased and consumed the final installment.
One of my favourite magazines, Rare Book Review, in its latest issue, reminds me how valuable that first edition would now be if we had not allowed it to be read to destruction:
“Is that a library in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?” Lorcan Dempsey found the connection, reflecting on Peter Kaufman’s startling prediction: by 2020 an iPod sized device will be able to contain all the media content ever created. Kaufman is just extrapolating the familiar Moore’s law trends. iPod style computer disk memory is now 3.6 millionth of the price of 1982 costs. So its not hard to believe that such a small device could contain … Keep Reading
There is a fascinating post from Adrian Hon and lots of good discussion on the revolution facing the book publishing industry (noted via Charkin blog). Adrian is amusingly rude, but spot-on, in his criticisms of the book publishers current web offerings:
… Keep ReadingMost of these sites are so awful that there’s plenty of room for easy improvement, providing that someone else smarter doesn’t step in and capture all the traffic first. Maybe that someone will be Amazon with Shelfari, or
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