by Roberto Zoia
Amazon has closed a multi-year deal with Simon & Schuster, covering both e-books and printed media. Negotiations only took three weeks.
As David Gaughran points out in his article Amazon and S&S Agree Terms. Who’s The Bad Guy Again?, this leaves us wondering why Hachette can’t come to terms with Amazon.
Shortly after Apple’s iPhone 6/6+ launch on September 9, IDG announced that the print edition of Macworld is shutting down. Jason Snell, Macworld’s lead editor for more than ten years and who has worked in Macworld for more than seventeen, writes in Goodby, Macworld:
Over the last decade we all made an enormous effort to transform Macworld editorial from a magazine mentality to a web site mentality. And honestly, it worked: By the end, the magazine was essentially a curated collection of the best stories from the website, cut down and copy edited and with nice photographs. The economics of the business just didn’t make it possible to continue.
I wonder if magazines from other industries will follow the same path. Most magazines now offer access to their digital counterpart when subscribing to the print edition. I find that even when subscribed to the print edition of some business magazines, most of the time I read the articles online.
Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism, in the Fall 2012 edition of the Nieman Reports. Great article. (If you only read one of the selected articles in this post, pick this one.)
The ITU and its initiative to take over the Internet. “The Agency’s secret proceedings are ‘completely transparent'”… in UN Agency’s Leaked Playbook: Panic, Chaos over Anti-Internet Treaty. Google’s initiative: “A free and open world depends on a free and open web”, Take Action. El futuro de Internet en peligro
Subcompact Publishing, by Craig Mod.
The 22 Rules of Storytelling, according to Pixar. “Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.”
Chris Anderson, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, talks with Russ Roberts of Econtalk about how technology is transforming the manufacturing business.
Quote from Cory Doctorow about Tor.com serializing his next book for free (interview by SF Signal):
If you mean, what are the benefits of free electronic release, I’ll just quote Tim O’Reilly and say, “My problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.”