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• Online Advertising Burnout
• 3 days ago
• There are days when I don’t post a blog entry or otherwise update my site because I’m too immersed in housekeeping chores. Those chores fall into two categories: scouring the Web for more articles, data and commentary that are the lifeblood of what goes into this site, and then sorting through and filing all of those articles, data and commentary to make sure they’re accessible when I get back to ...

• Print is not a Burden: Useless Drivel is the Burden
• 8 days ago
• An article appeared on May 5th in the New York Times called “Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In.” In glowing terms, it recounts the apparently amazing transformation of media giant IDG from primarily a print-based magazine publisher to an online publisher. The article moved quickly onto the Times’ most-read and most-blogged list (today it’s still #5 on the most-blogged list), and I ...

• Are Magazines now a Luxury Item?
• 10 days ago
• This blog entry complements my last entry on magazines (May 2nd). The information came to me by a circuitous route. Bob Sacks, aka “BoSacks” “a veteran of the printing/publishing industry since 1970” (primarily the magazine industry), issues an iconoclastic email newsletter, and does so thrice daily (!), most of which focuses on the magazine industry, some of which reaches out to the broader publ ...

• MagaBrands and Online Content
• 13 days ago
• I somehow missed this interesting development last October, but it’s well worth getting it on the record here. The annual American Magazine Conference was held October 28-30, 2007. As stated on the Magazine Publishers Association (MPA) site promoting the conference: “Our theme this year is ‘The MagaBrand Revolution: How Media Brands are Finding Success on the Printed Page—And Beyond.’ What is a ...

• No Snacking Between Books Please!
• 16 days ago
• I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little weary of all the Amazon-generated hype about the Kindle, its proprietary eBook reader (described by Amazon as a “revolutionary wireless reading device [emphasis mine]). We’re told incessantly how “visionary,” “exceptional,” and, yes, “revolutionary” this little device is, but we’re not told why (with regard to features that differentiate it meaningf ...