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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.

Conde Nast Editors Not ‘Overreacting’ to Web

Friday, December 5th, 2008

There is a very interesting article from AdAge.com today about the Conde Nast editors not 'Overreacting' to the Web. The article is penned by the redoubtable Nat Ives. It’s always interesting to read a seasoned editor’s take on progress and the current technologic dilemmas confronting us all, which sometimes seems something ...

The Book is Dead! Long Live the Book!

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Bo Sacks' optimistic piece about the magazine industry - It's Thanksgiving and all will be well - closed with this thought: [T]he magazine industry, the printing industry, the advertising industry and the newly emerging digital information industry are not going to go away. All four will survive, get stronger and be ...

It’s Thanksgiving and all will be well.

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Yep, that is the fact and the truth in all the turmoil of the current economic crisis. Our industry is going through a rough season and some really choppy waters. What, did you think it would be clear sailing till retirement? Have Dr. Joe Webb show you the long-term charts. ...

1996 Is Calling, and So Is Seybold San Francisco

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I don’t know if editors are more prone to pack-rat behavior than other people, but pack-rattitude has to be the reason that this editor still has in his possession an expo CD-ROM from the Seybold Seminars San Francisco Conference in 1996. It turned up by accident the other day in a ...