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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 ...

Xerox Gives Book Publishers One More Thing to Think About

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Yesterday,  Xerox announced a joint sales and marketing agreement with On Demand Books wherein the Xerox 4112 Copier/Printer will be integrated with the Espresso Book Machine - a fully integrated solution that prints, binds and trims books with full color covers on demand in retail locations and libraries.  The Espresso Book ...

Trades in Trouble

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Within a week of each other, two major publishers of trade magazines and directories in the graphic arts and publishing markets reported major changes or restructuring. Yesterday, August 3, Cygnus Business Media announced it is restructuring under Chapter 11 protection. Just a week ago, July 30, Reed Elsevier announced that ...

Ingram Will Merge Print and Digital Operations

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Today's edition of The Tennessean is reporting that Ingram Industries will merge its print and digital publishing operations into a single business entity. The article states in part:  "Ingram Industries will consolidate its print and digital publishing services into one company called Ingram Content Group Inc., a move the company said ...

Yes We Scan–Carl Malamud’s Campaign to Reboot .Gov

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

For over 20 years Carl Malamud has published government information on the Internet. His Public.Resource.Org is a digital repository of millions of pages of legal documents. Now Malamud is looking to "reboot .gov" with his campaign Yes We Scan to become the next Public Printer of the United States. In a prepared ...

BoSacks Speaks Out: The Best Publishing Formula for Monetizing Success

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

BoSacks Speaks Out: For those that know me, I’m a humble man. Well, at least sometimes. But not tonight. I have been telling my readers for over 17 years and my listeners at every lecture I have given that there is a successful monetized Internet model for publishing in the ...

The Publishing Canary Theory Revisited

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

For years I have held the position that newspapers were the canaries in the mine to the magazine business. Whatever the fluctuations in our businesses positive or negative, they have always happened first in newspapers.