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Category Archives: News
BoSacks Readers Speak Out: Re: The Real Story About Print Sales at
["The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards." - Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)] BoSacks Readers Speak Out: Re: The Real Story About Print Sales at Retail Re: The … Continue reading
If You Are in the Magazine Business and You Are Not Excited About
["Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." - William Wirt (1772 - 1834)] Chris Keyes to Samir … Continue reading
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Profitable News
["It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)] Profitable News By Jeff Jarvis One of the most controversial things I have said (you’re welcome for that straight line) is … Continue reading
How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps
["Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep" - William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616) ] Two Become One: How Magazines … Continue reading
The Real Story About Print Sales at Retail
["Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)] The Real Story About Print Sales at Retail 4 facts and a … Continue reading
Publishers’ emails: What 2 city magazines say about each other
["BoSacks Speaks Out: No doubt because I have started many regional publications I found this an amusing tale. In my very first publication in 1971 I went head to head with another local publisher, and there were some great times … Continue reading
Email stumbles in digital paradigm shift
["If E-mail had been around before the telephone was invented people would have said "hey, forget e-mail - with this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people" - -Unknown] Email stumbles in digital paradigm shift Alan Muter The … Continue reading
What if we in media are not in the content business?
["Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." - Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)] What if we in media are not in the content business? By Jeff Jarvis Oh, yes, we will produce … Continue reading
No B.S. : Publishing And The Continuance of Digital Ubiquity
[Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it. -Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)] BoSacks: No B.S. : … Continue reading
iPad App Subscriptions Grown Through Bundling / Tablets Help Publishers
["The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -Oliver Wendell Holmes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)] iPad App Subscriptions Grown Through Bundling http://www.mediabiznet.com.au/news/home.do?newsId=5510 … Continue reading