Technology Review editor and publisher Jason Pontin writes at length — “a manifesto” — about the predicament of print publications and how to save the industries they represent. He also responds to and critiques some of the prevailing “it doesn’t matter if print fails, blogs and others will pick up the slack” arguments.
The basic ideas and superficial summary are as follows: charge readers regardless of platform, align price and value on the ads front and reduce headcount to bring costs in line with revenues. These in many ways are common sense recommendations. The devil is in execution.
His piece is very dense and worthy of deeper thought than this but I wanted to alert people who may be interested.
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May 4, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Thanks Greg. I was actually right in the middle of writing my OWN response to all of your recent posts on the topic. I’m heading over there now 🙂
May 5, 2009 at 9:38 am
OK
May 8, 2009 at 4:29 am
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