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BoSacks Speaks Out: iPad Not Effective for Work, Fine for Play

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Due to a series of mishaps I didn't get my iPad till early Monday evening. So I am digesting the issues at hand (pun intended), with some slowness. I don't love it and I don't hate it either. For a digital work junkie like myself it is clearly ...

BoSacks Speaks Out: The Rules Have Changed

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

'm not exactly a man of few words, but today I find myself not knowing precisely where to begin with what is on my mind. It seems that each day and almost each hour there is a new e-reading platform being introduced and talked about. Some of ...

BoSacks Speaks Out: On Time Inc’s Message of Sobriety

Monday, March 29th, 2010

I have had this vent building up in me for quite some time, so I want to publicly thank Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, for a needed and sobering conversation. "Mr. Stengel acknowledges that early iPad content may not meet the hype. He compared it to the era ...

On the Power of Print Campaign

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Once again into the valley rode the Fortune 500. Once again, into the breach they ride feeling the need to defend the pious honor and value of print. Once again, they completely miss the damn target, this time by a mile, a 90 million dollar mile. I am not ...

Print Media and iPad’s Profit Potential

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

BoSacks Speaks Out: I have been tracking the iPad very closely. It is my belief that it is an important device. Why is a good question? The answer is that it isn't so much a device as a universal translator platform, much the same way that an iPhone ...

iPad Stirs Up Change, but Who Will Benefit?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

I have spent hours looking for the perfect article that matches or at least parallels my first impression of the iPad. Many are laughing at the name; I say get over it. It really does not matter that people can and have made fun of it. I ...

BoSacks Speaks Out: Magazine Production’s New World Order

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

There are two things I would like to point out today in reference to an article Folio titled Magazine Production's New World Order. The first is that I forecasted the demise of the traditional production department in a white paper in 2005. Being a senior manufacturing guy most of ...