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There is No iSalvation Coming

by Tris Hussey on January 20, 2010 · 0 comments

in Technology

Mathew Ingram believes that pinning hopes on a tablet from any vendor will save the publishing industry is just wasted energy:
As Om noted in a post about the Kindle HD, everyone talks about the iTunes model and the iPod, but while those devices have been phenomenally successful for Apple itself, the music industry as a whole is still a complete mess. A single device, however powerful or magical, can’t change the entire cost structure of an industry. The publishing industry should spend more time thinking about how their business is [...]

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Canwest’s buyer has an opportunity for innovation

by Tris Hussey on January 8, 2010 · 2 comments

in Social Media

This is one of those times when the clichéd Tale of Two Cities quotes comes to mind. I’ll save you the pain and skip it. Yeah, we get it, newspapers as we know them are in trouble. Just like the advent of the telegraph changed how news was gathered, transmitted and reported, the Internet has done the same for papers.
Who wants to buy a newspaper to read news that is often stale before the ink is dry? Certainly not for the classifieds, Craigslist took care of that nicely. Weekly fliers? [...]

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Observe, Learn, Adapt, Flourish–All Publishing is at a turning point

by Tris Hussey on December 29, 2009 · 0 comments

in Citizen Journalism, Create Your Own Blog, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Featured, Internet Life, RSS, Social Media, Technology, Using WordPress, Web 2.0

I don’t buy terribly many books anymore, or magazines, and certainly not newspapers. A bit of an ironic statement from someone who’s first book comes out in January, but I don’t equate publishing with paper. I assume that my books will have more life in digital editions than in paper ones. I’ve been writing in the digital medium far more than I ever have (or will) in works published on paper.
While it isn’t Earth-shattering news that newspapers, at least in print, are dying off. Local newspapers, the hyper local kind [...]

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Gutenberg was a blogger

by Tris Hussey on April 20, 2009 · 2 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

We owe a huge debt to Johannes Gutenberg. Here’s a guy who just wanted to wrestle publication of The Bible out of the hands of The Church and monks and unwittingly (perhaps) set the stage for blogging.
The movable type printing press revolutionized how information was disseminated. If you wanted to rail against the government, printing up a broadsheet didn’t mean you and a bunch of folks hand copying your treatise, you wrote it, set the type (with the aid of your friendly neighbourhood printer), and just stay up running off [...]

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