Stefano Garavelli

[...] expect to be paid. Most publishing outlets today are struggling to make a living out of a business model which is no longer existent. Most of them earned money once, on the assumption that no-one [...]

[...] , otherwise they might un-please too many. Irrelevancy is still an option. Again, know your business model. The Business Model Making a living from doing the same mechanical tasks in the same old [...]

[...] again and again. That’s not what publishers are generally doing today tough. Most of the digital products out there are replica of the same page based collection of news, leaving space for the bad [...]

[...] up again. Early adopters might deviate a coherent process of going mainstream again with digital products. It turned out that the very first tablet apps subscribers where print lovers with tablets, [...]

[...] scientific knowledge sharing, and so it’ll be. You can’t beat the system. Know your balance sheets Be honest with yourself. Is your content being purchased by advertisers or by readers? [...]

[...] the process of content production ever cheaper are still betting on this to improve their balance sheets. This creates the endless loop of lowering content quality and working hard for nothing. [...]

[...] response they produce drowns out any consideration of the principle being endorsed. – Glenn Greenwald [...]

When Marco Arment decided to launch an iPad digital magazine, probably he didn’t know that he would have resigned so quickly Today I learnt from Ma [...]

[...] , stand legions of publishers trying to understand how to prevent their circulation and advertisement revenue from sinking even lower. Both sides are faced with the same problem and, frankly, neither [...]

[...] platforms efficiently running services that once used to be on your complete control. If advertisement revenue is falling on any media outlet out there, it’s the evil of Google. If readers aren’t [...]

[...] ; instead, I blame the publishers. They blindly followed AAM née ABC guidelines and created digital magazines that were hardly different from print. They prioritized customer retention over customer [...]

[...] is that the replica will never be successful. Consumers have soundly rejected them: digital subscriptions make up only 3% of total subscriptions. But I am of course optimistic about the future of [...]

[...] When Marco Arment decided to launch an iPad digital magazine, probably he didn’t know that he would have resigned so quickly Today I learnt from Marco [...]

[...] lead publishers to a predictable crash Let’s start from some recent quotes from the digital publishing industry: What we have learned is that the replica will never be successful. Consumers have [...]