February 9th
by Scott Karp | 
41 Comments
I was thinking last night about books and why I don’t read them anyone — I was a lit major in college, and used to be voracious book reader. What happened?
December 7th
by Scott Karp | 9 Comments
It seems that everything that can command consumer attention — websites, software applications, social networking, video games, reality TV — is being monetized through advertising. So why not books? Especially in dynamic digital formats? Tim O’Reilly argues no:
December 6th
by Scott Karp | 16 Comments
Print is dead and all content wants to be free — two bogeymen of the digital age, with some edge of truth, but based on current visibility, still unlikely at those extremes. But it’s undeniable that the economics of print publishing are very different today than what they were before the web, and more content [...]
August 26th
by Scott Karp | 31 Comments
I was in Borders Books today looking for a copy of David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous, and it suddenly struck me how ironic it was to be looking for a book about dynamic connectedness in this place of static, disconnected objects and finite shelf space.
I used to love bookstores — they were magical places [...]
April 18th
by Scott Karp | 5 Comments
I’ve spent a lot of time on Publishing 2.0 talking about the impact of digital media on periodical publishing, i.e. newspapers and magazines, and about online publishing broadly defined, e.g. search results as a form of publishing, that I’ve only rarely looked at the publishing form that gave birth to modern publishing — the book. [...]
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BizBash | July 2, 2009
The Atlantic has been doing "salon" dinners for years with advertisers, journalists, policy makers, and Atlantic editors.
BBC News | July 2, 2009
You can now buy Twitter followers for the bargain price of $87 per 1,000. Better rates I assume for 100,000 user block.
econsultancy.com
there are around 700 advertisers worldwide who “routinely buy online display advertising”, compared with the 1.5 million companies who buy search keywords
YouTube | July 1, 2009
"Here's a newspaper, put it online...kept them from imagining an ONLINE NEWSPAPER"
BBC | July 1, 2009
A rather cool BBC site that tracks online conversation about their shows, and formulates a ranking based on the amount of buzz the particular episode is generating.
Fast Company
Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to the music industry. With its iPod and iTunes Store, Apple carved out a largely virgin market so fast that it was able to wrest control of the digital-music distribution system and thus dictate what the record labels could do.
All Things Digital
Twitter and old media are complementary, and the former certainly has less value without the latter.
howardowens.com
James Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley, E.W. Scripps and Joseph Pulitzer were not just earlier versions of Woodward and Bernstein. They were entrepreneurs, visionaries and risk takers who experimented and explored the capabilities of new technologies with a goal of meeting readers needs and growing audience.
Sky News | June 26, 2009
"So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson’s death that the computers powering Google's news section interpreted the surge of 'Michael Jackson' requests as an automated attack."
Bloomberg News
Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV.
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