In a joint panel session of the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum on “How to tell the truth during a revolution,” moderator Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of Journalism Training Programme, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, discusses the many difficulties of reporting events such as the recent Arab uprisings Covering those events raises… [Read more…]
April 28, 2012
E Ink Holdings, the firm behind the allegedly easy-on-the-eye daylight readable electronic paper that once made your Kindle or Nook so great, has just reportedits first loss in 10 successive quarters. The company made a net loss of NT$787 million (a little under $27 million) for the first three months of 2012, after it saw a… [Read more…]
April 1, 2012
The term “agency pricing” may not be familiar to those outside the book industry, but it has become a serious issue with the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Apple and five major book publishers for colluding on prices as a defensive move against Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). One of the key factors in that case will… [Read more…]
April 1, 2012
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is denying a frustrated publisher’s claim that it has indefinitely stopped adding any more newspapers and magazines to its Kindle store around the world. “Completely out of the blue, Amazon have told us they have decided to stop publishing any new newspapers on the Kindle indefinitely, worldwide,” says Gannett’s Herald & Times… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
By PHILIP BRASOR On Nov. 13, publisher Takarajima took out newspaper advertisements for its magazine-like book “Denshi Shoseki no Shotai” (“The Real Shape of e-Books“), describing it as a polemic “against electronic books.” It includes input from Naoki Award winning novelist Miyuki Miyabe, who explains why she isn’t “aggressive” about electronic publishing, as well as… [Read more…]
January 6, 2012
by Jenn Webb | @JennWebb Across the board, news organizations and publishers are struggling to find business models that let them stay afloat through the digital transformation. Journalists are a common casualty, with those who work in specialized areas encountering a market that’s particularly inhospitable. Marc Herman (@Marc_Herman_), a freelance journalist (notably for The Atlantic), is… [Read more…]
December 28, 2011
Here’s how newspapers sell what they do to would-be readers. You can get the whole paper, now sometimes including digital access. We’ll sell you Sunday only, or the weekend, or 7-day, but you have to take our whole paper. That’s what we sell; that’s our one-size-fits-all product. It fit your grandparents and your parents, so… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
This is the second in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cover, from publishing to mobile to advertising. From Borders’ bankruptcy to Amazon’s ambitions, it was a busy year in book publishing. Here are five numbers to put 2011… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
mong the Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack ads bundled with my Saturday New York Times this morning is a surprise: an 8-page circular from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) advertising the company’s new free one-day shipping offer. Update: Some readers tell me they have seen Amazon circulars in their Sunday papers before. The front page of… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Cork, Ireland-based wholesale e-book supplier ePub Direct is taking €1.3 ($1.69/£1.09) million in funding to grow its business supplying e-books to digital retailers. ePub supplies titles to 116 stores including Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Waterstones… [Read more…]
December 11, 2011
Jill Abramson is too busy to worry about her own appetite. She’s more concerned about other people’s appetites – specifically, her readers’ hunger for news. ANTHONY JENKINS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL It’s a concern that takes up all of her time now, just a couple of months into her new job as executive editor of The… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
For most of the past hundred years, the Supreme Court of Canada heard the occasional copyright case with significant cases popping up once every 10 or 20 years. That started to change in 2001 with a big case reaching Canada’s top court every year or two. While that seemed like a busy schedule, it is… [Read more…]
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