Tag: DEATHOFPRINT

Maybe you remember this guy named Steve Jobs who was all like, "I've got this new device and it's magical and revolutionary." The iPad will save the print industry, Jobs told us, because all of the world's gasping magazine publishers will hop on the third-device bandwagon, and save long-form journalism and glossy celebrity gossip. You'll be able to walk around with a year's worth of magazine ...

The thing that we rarely talk about when discussing the certain fate of print media is its ecological value. Most of us, we'd venture, have at least some nostalgia for printed matter, as well as mixed feelings for the spread of e-books. But one book that we're sure no one will miss is the White Pages. Verizon asked New York state regulators on Friday to end the distribution of millions of ...

Playboy, which has somehow (mostly) defied the magazine apocalypse facing the rest of the print industry, has just announced a new site called The Smoking Jacket that will feature "safe for work" content. We presume that means nipples will get a cover-up via leather and/or lace, but that bosoms won't fail to appear entirely on the site -- an obvious bid to recapture the young male audience stolen ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Journalistic shield laws apparently don't apply to writers and publishers in San Mateo, California. In the intensely escalating missing-iPhone brouhaha, police reportedly raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in an attempt to glean information about the iPhone prototype incident. [From: Engadget] 'Avatar' is continuing its ...

The Internet, never one to hold back from kicking someone while they're down, has eclipsed magazines when it comes to ad spending. Companies in 2009 set aside more of their marketing budget for Web-based advertisements than they did for those in the glossy tomes on magazine racks. According to ZenithOptimedia, magazine ad sales took a nose dive from $23.7 billion in 2008 to $19.5 billion in ...

After covering everything from The Beatles' invasion of America to Lil' Wayne's rise to hip-hop royalty, Rolling Stone is now offering 43 years' worth of published material on its Web site -- for a price, of course. That's every issue ever printed of the legendary magazine at your fingertips, amounting to a digital roadmap of music's journey from the blues to rock-and-roll and beyond. This "All ...

As the iPad inches ever closer to its official release, few people are more excited than magazine publishers, who, after years of watching their revenue evaporate under the blazing sun of the Internet, now hope to finally be able to charge users for enhanced digital content. But, as tricked-out as the e-reader magazines of the future may be, the simple significance of an enticing cover will ...

Well so much for that idea... The future of paid digital newspapers took a major blow yesterday, when the New York Observer reported that Newsday's attempt to charge online readers had officially failed -- miserably. Since first introducing its pay structure last October, the Long Island newspaper has managed to scrape together a grand total of 35 subscriptions. Not exactly a home run, ...

A recent poll conducted by Harris Interactive, and cited by CNET, puts forth an ominous conclusion: a mere 23-percent of Web-surfing U.S. adults are willing to pay for their online news. As the death knell of print journalism reaches a deafening clamor, the statistic does not seem to bode well for news outlets -- or for those of us who like to stay informed. Fortunately, though, the inquiring ...

Ever since the dawn of a glorious thing called the Internet, many among the world's literati have been carping and kvetching about the imminent demise and corruption of the written word at the hands of tweets and other cyber abbreviations. One recent study, however, proudly proclaims prose to be healthier than ever, thank you very much. As Wired reports, researchers at the University of San ...

Readers, we had our doubts. Sure, we've been covering the Kindle (and its e-reader spawn) ever since it first debuted, but the paper apologists among us didn't foresee the pixel trumping the pulp any time soon. Yet on Christmas Day, it happened: Amazon sold more Kindle books than physical ones. Ring the death knell for the printing press. We can imagine that the majority of these digitally ...

"The Death of Print." We remember a few years back when this phrase just signified some impending yet inconceivable nightmare, like Y2K or 2012. Now, of course, we live in a world where newspapers are shrinking from sight, and Roland Emmerich rakes in $65 million in one weekend by peddling more visions of the apocalypse. For those of us who have worked in print, or have colleagues who still do, ...

As Barnes & Noble launches its Nook e-reader today, we are reminded of how the popular aversion to paper and, of course, the recession have taken a tighter and tighter death-grip on the print industry. After the closure of Condé Nast Portfolio and more recently, Gourmet, the Condé Nast magazine empire seems to be making a bigger leap into the digital arena in an effort to stay ...

As more and more people get their news from the Internet, several long standing papers have closed up shop and gone online-only. We expect others to follow. However, a new study from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication suggests that, although most folks increasingly prefer to read their news online, they don't necessarily want to see newspapers go away. Of ...

Back in March, we wrote about the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) and how it was printing its last edition and shifting completely to a digital format. It seems that the transition has been a bit rough for the paper, fueling speculation that a paper's print division actually drives its online readership. The Nielsen Online numbers from March are in, and, according to them, the Seattle P-I is no ...