E-books: Newspapers, Magazines, Journalism

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." ~Jerry Seinfeld
"Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them." ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"
print newspapers and magazines are struggling due to declining readership (digital availability, preference), declining advertising revenue, and unpopular paywalls & subscription plans
value of community vs. personalized news
journalism vs. blogging; repackaging of archives
what is "news"? article updates
See also: Libraries: Journals
New York Times Launches E-Book Programs 12/13/2012
Washington Times to become 'digital-first' 1/2/2013
This Is What Newsweek's Digital Future Will Look Like NewsBeast Labs team creating, teaching digital journalism; 12/14/2012
The New York Times and print pressures Andreessen; 12/13/2012
Europe's newspapers are dying too 12/12/2012
BuzzFeed's latest: Is this the future of magazines? long-form journalism; 12/3/2012
Buffett Says He Remains Bullish on Newspapers, Despite Closing One 11/27/2012
Storify Aims to Become Portal for Content Discovery 11/20/2012
Esquire To Make Print Magazine Interactive Through Netpage App readers clip, save and share content from the print magazine on social media; 11/12/2012
Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? The death of newspapers -- by cutbacks, outright disappearance, or morphing into lean websites -- means a reduction of watchdog reporting and less local information. Some say it has caused a drop in civic participation; 11/11/2012
Newsweek/Daily Beast Partners With Vook on Ebook Program 11/8/2012
The newsonomics of the newspaper industry as the Republican Party White, older, and male; 11/8/2012
Newsosaur: Publishers Fail to Diversify Digital Audience 11/7/2012
Digital Self-Publishing Platform Blurb Expands to Offer Magazines and Brochures 11/6/2012
The very long tail ? how magazines could make their archives sing 10/31/2012
How magazines will be changed forever Like Newsweek, almost all magazines will eventually go purely electronic. Physical magazines have start and finish; they give a sense of completion. Digital formats lack edges and boundaries; it's harder for readers to focus. Until digital magazines make it easier to stop, there will be nostalgia for print; 10/21/2012
Did The Daily Beast Eat Newsweek? Why Most Publishers Opt for 'the Straddle' -- If They Can Afford It; Straddle = using the prestige of the print brand and the old-media cash flow to fund investments in digital; 10/22/2012
Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism 10/17/2012
Newsweek Will Cease Print Publication at End of Year 10/18/2012
Don?t Read Too Much into Newsweek?s Digital Retreat weekly news magazines have unique challenges; 10/18/2012
What The Guardian really thinks about newsprint 10/17/2012
Switching consumers to digital books is hard enough ? get ready for magazines paper magazines are still pretty good; 10/15/2012
Chicago Tribune Launches Ebook Initiative - but L.A. Times Opts Out digital "long form" from articles; 10/11/2012
Pew study: News consumption up via mobile, social media 9/27/2012
Magazines Don?t Have a Digital Problem, They Have a Bundling Problem 8/13/2012
Wondering How Far Magazines Must Fall NYT:Carr; newsweeklies; 8/12/2012
Times Co. Said to Reach Preliminary Deal to Sell About.com 8/8/2012
Time Inc.?s New Chief Rethinks Magazines for a Digital Audience 7/29/2012
The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street The online retail giant?s shift into same-day delivery will change local retail. Will it also change local news? (retail advertising); 7/26/2012
When WSJ Flunks Internet History, Blogs Step In To Educate 7/23/2012
What?s next for newspapers? 'farm it' (keep doing what you do today as well as you can); 'milk it' (accept inevitable decline, but reduce costs); 'feed it' (leverage waning strengths, and invest aggressively); 7/11/2012
Transfer of Value: Traditional newspapers that move online are about to lose the war against pure players and aggregators 7/8/2012
If Newspapers Had Never Offered Free News Online... They Would Still Be Failing building communities; 6/27/2012
Recognizing the critical value of a daily newspaper's journalism 6/24/2012
How Accurate Were Minority Report?s Technology Precogs?: E-Newspapers 2002 movie; 6/21/2012
Visualized: Swiss newspaper goes digital, prints front page in binary ;-) 6/9/2012
The Undoing of the Daily: Newspapers Cut Days From Publishing Week 30% of cost: ink, printing and delivery; 6/3/2012
Don't Mean To Be Alarmist, But The TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse newspaper analogy; 6/3/2012
Why we need to blow the article up in order to save it the article should sometimes be separated into its component parts / assets (background, photos, etc.) in order to be more useful; 5/30/2012
New Orleans Newspaper Scales Back in Sign of Print Upheaval 3 days/week; staff reductions; 5/25/2012
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps future of media on mobile devices isn't with applications but with the Web; 5/7/2012
Another Big Newspaper Says Digital Ads Shrank Last Quarter Washington Post; 5/4/2012
Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? sports and finance; Narrative Science; 4/24/2012
Death knell hasn't tolled newspapers transforming; whoneedsnewspapers.org; Varble; 4/15/2012
Newspapers Pollute Less On E-Readers and Tablets Adopting e-readers could reduce GHG emissions from publishing and distributing newspapers by 74 percent; using tablet computers could result in a 63 percent reduction; RAND [.pdf]; 4/2012
A Newspaper, and a Legacy, Reordered (Washington Post); 2/12/2012
Could e-books be a game-changer for 2012 Presidential candidates? (faster, targeted, personalized); 11/25/2011
The Book World Is Changing: Mark Cuban Creates A Best Seller Out Of Some Blog Posts 12/03/2011
British Library newspaper archive puts 300 years of history online 11/29/2011
Turning the Page: SOU newspaper becomes online-only; The Siskiyou 11/21/2011
The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story 11/18/2011
Newspapers? Digital Apostle (MediaNews' John Patton preparing for a world without print); 11/14/2011
HP Wants You to Print Magazines with Your Home Printer So You Can Waste More Paper and Buy More Ink 10/12/2011
One Way To Boost Newspapes Sales? Write A Story That Someone Will Try To Hide By Buying Up All The Copies 10/03/2011
In E-Books, Publishers Have Rivals: News Sites 9/19/2011
The New York Times imagines the kitchen table of the future 8/2011
Newspapers and social media: Still mostly doing it wrong 7/1/2011
What does the journalism of the future look like? 6/13/2011
USA Today rewrites strategy to cope with Internet 3/23/2011
End Times: Can America?s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism? Atlantic article about NYT; 1/2009

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