Print

I have a bet with my father that by 2018 the New York Times will only have a digital edition available. We made the bet in 2008, and four years into it I am having doubts whether I’ll win or not. Probably it will take a bit longer for major newspapers completely abandon their print versions. If my bet was placed on the Encyclopedia Britannica, though, I would have already won. That’s because they just announced that they will halt the print version and from now on you’ll only be able to

Print isn’t dead. . . yet, but we can start writing the obituary. Cosmopolitan Magazine says they just hit 100,000 paid, digital subscribers and they did it at a higher price point than the print subscription. (Why digital and ebooks often cost more than the print version, I’ll never understand.)

Magazines used to be one of my biggest joys, writing for them, reading them, browsing for new mags on the rack at the bookstore. The first time I saw the block-long newsstand in Los Angeles, I nearly fainted at the printed joy.

If you’ve never purchased advertising before, it can be a very intimidating process. The terminology can be, at times, very confusing and many sites don’t make it easy to get the information you need. Couple that with pushy sales people and many smart people who seek to buy ads make very dumb mistakes.

The iPad is here. And it’s here to stay. There is a sea change going on within the mobile computing industry. And despite the cool, slick look of these devices, it’s not the hardware that makes them useful. It’s the applications (apps). Apps are little engines of innovation driving the current (and future) trends in computing, publishing, print, and media.