Tag: OLDMEDIA

A drama has been playing out on the Web involving Wikipedia and Chris Anderson, Wired's editor-in-chief and author of the book 'Free: The Future of a Radical Price.' Anderson's book doesn't hit store shelves until July 7th, but copies have already landed on the desks of reviewers at several publications. One of them, the Virginia Quarterly Review, published an article on June 23 revealing ...

...And the flood gates have opened. Print publications are now in full-on death march mod,e and it's only a matter of time before newspapers become like vinyl records -- odd relics that hipsters cling to out of a false sense of nostalgia. Okay, so the chance that people will one day stack old, yellowing copies of the New York Times in milk crates around their studio apartment is pretty slim, but ...

Woe betide the print publications of the world -- the Internet is here, stealing your subscribers, and it's not going to go away. Adapt or die is the mantra of the newspapers and pulpy journals of the world, and Ziff Davis is the latest trying to do just that, stopping print publication of the venerable PC Magazine, in favor of an exclusively online publication. Founded in 1982, the magazine is ...

As newspapers continue to struggle with the tough realities of the Internet age and the media economy, things aren't exactly looking good for the printed news industry. But, yesterday there was an unexpected ray of sunshine left for those still in print: Newspapers nationwide saw a surge in sales as voters sought out something to commemorate this historic election. Many papers in New York, San ...

Last week, the editors of The New Yorker unveiled an online, digital edition of the magazine, PaidContent.org reports. While The New Yorker has been offering excerpts of the magazine in digital form for some time now, those articles were only made available online to coincide with the print edition's arrival in mailboxes and on newsstands. As of the most recent issue, the digital edition will ...

It's been a terrible decade or so for print newspapers around the world. As more and more people go online to get their news, fewer need a (non-free) printed version cluttering up their mailboxes. Then came sites like Craigslist, killing any profits earned from the printed classifieds section, and Monster.com, doing the same for the help wanted section. That doesn't leave much left to cherry pick, ...