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A snapshot in time 27 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
For the book, new tools and new forms Earlier this month Atlantic Media announced that Quartz, an online publication it launched in 2012, would start accepting comments at the level of a paragraph. T...
Audiobook platforms 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Crowdsourcing the creation of public-domain audiobooks After posting a summary of Johanna Vondeling's "top ten trends shaping the future of publishing", I am returning to each of the trends in separa...
Lessons for publishers 23 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Borrow what you can and invent the rest In January I wrote that "[c]ustom publishing gives advertisers a chance to keep content and cut out the middleman." Wicks Group, a private-equity investor, had...
Rule of law 22 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Due process vs. impossibly large numbers In February, I wrote a short post noting that in the month prior, a small number (1,800) of organizations had submitted nearly 13.5 million requests to Google...
Policing plagiarism 21 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
How broadly do online retailers look for infringing uses? Motivated in part by its links to piracy, I've been reading about the perceived problem of plagiarism of self-published works. The story brok...
Beyond disposable 20 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
Creating serious journalism that also scales Last month, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a change in how it calculates the country's gross domestic product (GDP). A measure of economic heal...
Strange bedfellows 19 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
Partnering to make new publishing models work After posting a summary of Johanna Vondeling's "top ten trends shaping the future of publishing", I am returning to each of the trends in separate posts ...
Conference to content 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
What audience problems are you looking to solve? Earlier this week, I referred to a post by Jason Stoffer that offered three ways to make online education, particularly massively open online courses ...
A very small pond 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
In a digital era, does publishing scale matter? A few weeks ago I wrote a post that admitted I "dont find [the Penguin - Random House] merger very interesting." Within publishing, that seems like a m...
The over-served 14 Aug 2013 | 04:49 pm
Another way to disrupt educational publishing Yesterday I made the claim that "successful online education has yet to be invented". Considering the hype around massively open online courses, or MOOCs...
