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Featured post future of publishing magazines

Jon Reed 12th March 2010 Chris Anderson, Digital, iPad, iPhone, magazines, Rupert Murdoch, WIRED

The Future of Magazines

Many have seen online magazines and newspapers as a threat to revenues – notably Rupert Murdoch. But what if you could create content and a user experience so compelling that people would willingly pay for it? We’re already seeing signs of this with iPhone apps. The iPad could take things a stage further. I talked about the Minority Report moment on this blog back in 2007. I also said magazines would get there before books. With the iPad, I’d say that moment is pretty much here. And the magazine will be WIRED – coming to an iPad near you this summer.

Announcements Blogging Featured post

Anna Lewis 10th March 2010 author, award, Blogging, blogs, Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, London Book Fair, London Book Tweet, Neil Gaiman, Seth Godin, tweetup

Nominations open for the Author Blog Awards 2010

The Author Blog Awards aim to highlight to readers the great content that you can find in author blogs and microblogs, reward those authors who engage with their readers online, and encourage other authors to do the same. Nominations are now open so please head over to www.authorblogawards.com to nominate your favourite author blog.

Digital eBooks rights

Tom Evans 3rd March 2010 DRM, eBooks, ereader, ibooks, iPad, iPhone, karma, Kindle, rights

Karmic Rights Management

In case you hadn’t realised before the announcement of the Apple iPad in January, this is the decade of the eReader. The publishing industry is going through a similar transition to that of the music industry in the last decade.
In these days when you can publish direct for ereaders like the Kindle, Cool-er and soon the iPad – or just blog a story – what’s to stop anyone stealing and copying your work illegally?

Small and Mighty

The worst financial crisis in a century, an international banking collapse and global recession: it is enough to make a publisher cry all the way to the bank. But there is a flip side to the doom and gloom: It is possible to thrive — not just survive — in an economic downturn, especially if you are small, flexible and smart.

Tweetups

Jon Reed 11th February 2010 #twinter, London Book Fair, tweetup, TwitPic, Twitter

A #twinter's tale

The London book trade tweeted up again last night, at #twinter – a successor to #tweetmas, both organized by @benjohncock

How to be a Rock Star

If you were trying to make it in a rock band, you wouldn’t face the dilemma of ‘should I play gigs or try and get signed by record labels?’ You’d be thinking, “I’ll play lots of gigs, record my music myself and send it off to the record labels”. You’d have a MySpace page and do as much as you could to build up your fan base and reputation as a way of drawing attention to the quality of your work and proving that there is a market for it. So, why not apply the same philosophy to writing?

television

Jon Reed 31st January 2010