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The do-nothing newspaper publishers

A small newspaper publisher says ignoring the Internet until somebody else figures it out is the answer. I think he's just plain wrong.
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Paul Graham and ‘post-medium’ publishing

Content is king. Media are just delivery systems. Until paper publishers realize where the value really lies, they will continue to march toward obsolescence.
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Digital piracy catches up to the print publishing world

The New York Times points out that, as e-books and e-book read­ers become more pop­u­lar, the print pub­lish­ing indus­try is see­ing an increase in dig­i­tal piracy. More ille­gal copies of best­sellers are turn­ing up on file-sharing sites like Scribd and Wattpad. Authors and pub­lish­ers are, need­less to say, not happy with the sit­u­a­tion, but there [...]
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Revolution and the unthinkable scenario

We are liv­ing through a rev­o­lu­tion, writes Clay Shirky, just like the one that Gutenberg started around 1500. And all rev­o­lu­tions are more or less the same, he writes: “The old stuff gets bro­ken faster than the new stuff gets put in its place.” The old stuff get­ting bro­ken in this case is news­pa­pers. More and [...]
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An e-reader scenario

Paper, as a medium for dis­trib­ut­ing writ­ten con­tent and adver­tis­ing, is on its way out, and Fortune senior writer Michael V. Copeland intro­duces the peo­ple and the com­pa­nies work­ing to craft a replace­ment: e-readers pow­ered by e-ink technologies. Copeland’s arti­cle is edu­ca­tional, if you haven’t been fol­low­ing all this e-reader hype already, but what really [...]
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