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News Publishers Find Digital Customers Tough Nut To Crack - June 19, 2019
The endless - and useless - war between legacy news publishers and the tech world has several battlefields. "Both sides are good people," to quote a well-known media phenomenon out of context. News, and the publishers who deliver it, earned high esteem for informing the public. With that came lots of money. That started slipping away half a century ago. By the time publishers noticed, internet technologies had redesigned distribution of information and just about everything else. That, too, came with lots of money.

Digital Promise And Reality - May 6, 2019
Those who study media economics have made interesting discoveries about paywalls, the seemingly indispensible cookie monsters meant to extract cash. Publishers love paywalls, generally, because their shareholders want more money. Readers are less excited, particularly those desiring access to multiple sources.

Digital Publishing: Money Needed - January 18, 2019
Thoughtful predictions for the coming year in digital journalism and publishing have appeared in recent days. As with recent years, the insight is mostly doleful, evidence persuasive and solutions painful. One thing stands out among all these predictions: money. Easy money from advertising, paywalls, billionaires or, even, governments is not going to save news publishing. Some of it can't be saved, some shouldn't.

Why It Took So Long To Build The Pyramids - November 15, 2018
Scale is important to innovation. Anybody in the digital realm knows this, those fighting for digital transition in particular. Big publishers looking for digital traction very often look to work with competitors for scalable solutions. The problem is anti-trust law is a firewall to protect consumers from such collusion.

Digital First, Last But Not Only - February 22, 2016
Every publisher considers, studies, business models. Confounding some, there is no grand unifying vision for a sustainable, successful business. The rise and rise of digital media has produced many models. There will be many more.

The Customer Calls The Tune And It’s No Coincidence - November 2, 2015
By most accounts, print circulation seems to have bottomed out. Losses from the digital decades are starting to reverse, albeit slightly. Print advertising, however, may never recover. Digital advertising, which benefits Facebook more than publishers, seems to have stalled except for mobile ads, expected to overtake TV sometime soon, maybe, unless the ad blockers take over. All of this is just opportunity.

Ideas Grow - Money Flows - August 24, 2015
Digital transition has spawned great creativity. Ideas - all kinds - spring up anywhere. Markets ready to exploit them are obvious magnets.


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