Magazines are born and magazines die. That is part of a healthy market. Andrew Losowsky has a nostalgia piece in today’s Independent about his ten favourite magazines that have died in the last 50 years. Its a good list. I remember reading or looking at most of them, but not Sniffin’ Glue (which unsurprisingly had a short life — 1976-77) and two of them, Lilliput and Picture Post had died before I got interested in magazines. We can think … Keep Reading
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John Naughton wrote one of the best introductions to the internet, a kind of hymn to the web: A Brief History of the Future. He blogs regularly, and elegantly, and is also a sage columnist for The Observer (which hides out on the Guardian Unlimited service, since the Guardian does not publish on Sunday). His piece today is excellent. Sir Arthur Sullivan, Tom Lehrer and now a new work by Mike Stanfill. The chances are that … Keep Reading
Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post on the way that Google Book Search is transforming scholarship.
Google will have to settle its fights with copyright holders. But no one should doubt that the way it is building a global electronic library system can lead to extraordinary richness and access to wisdom. The Google Book Search system will get better — inexorably and rapidly as more content is added and as the functionality of the software improves. Publishers and librarians will … Keep Reading
Overnight there was a stealthy upgrade to the Exact Editions service. Ideally nobody should notice but we can talk about some of the silent enhancements here.
Gutenberg was not thinking about the web when he invented the printing press. Life would be a lot simpler now if he had made a press which could only print on one size and format of paper. We could then optimize everything for a single reading frame. But alas, with the Exact Editions … Keep Reading
PaidContent has a report on a gloomy review of the newspaper and magazine industry’s reaction to the web. There is also a link to the International Herald Tribune’s report on the Magazine 2.0 Conference — a satelite event to CEBIT.
It is quite extraordinary that some publishers are developing a digital strategy just because they feel the need to respond to advertiser’s expectations.
… Keep Reading“We are making a lot of sales online, but over all we are still making a loss,”