Media Industry (Print, Publishing, Digital etc.)

Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:57 pm

My dad still have the Encyclopaedias there, gathering dust :(

Does Ikea likes to buy such books, to be used in their furniture displays ?
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:56 am

China's online advertising market rose 57 percent to 51.2 billion yuan ($8.1 billion) last year, surpassing traditional newspaper advertising, according to Beijing-based consultancy iResearch.

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Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:26 am

End of the road for FHM magazine in Australia.

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Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:42 am

Something Is Rotten In The State Of E-Book Publishing

http://www.fastcompany.com/1835391/some ... publishing


The publishing industry has a problem. The old guard haven't innovated. And neither their business models nor their products embrace the digital books revolution.

Take the ongoing and complicated spat between Apple and the Justice Department over the agency pricing model and alleged collusion which ended up with consumers being forced to spend more than they needed to. The battle may expand internationally, in fact. Apple tried to expand its 30% revenue share model, which has done very well in the billion-dollar app economy, into books. It also pushed publishers to agree to a very different way of selling their products: Instead of buying books traditionally, at a pre-agreed wholesale price and then pricing them as Apple saw fit in the iBookstore, it would let the publishers set their own price and extract its usual fixed share of the income ... as long as the publishers wouldn't sell e-books elsewhere.

It was a bold move, and one that could and did shake up the industry a bit. Amazon, the publishers contend, had established a monopoly on e-books, and was selling their wares at overly discounted prices. With Apple's model they could choose to price e-books lower than physical books cost (appeasing consumers who expect to pay less for a non-physical product), and yet extract more money due to the cost-savings of e-publishing.

The DOJ disagreed, and says Apple's deal meant consumers ended up spending much more than they needed to, hence its action against Apple and a laundry list of the bigger U.S. publishers. Amazon is now free to renegotiate deals with these publishers and push cover prices lower, which will save consumers cash but may both eat into publisher's profits and, ultimately, author's payments.

As such, it's not a wholly well-received decision as Scott Turow, president of the Author's Guild, recently noted: "Today's low Kindle book prices will last only as long as it takes Amazon to re-establish its monopoly. It is hard to believe that the Justice Department has somehow persuaded itself that this solution fosters competition or is good for readers in the long run." Because when Amazon does re-establish its monopoly, and nudges prices upward, it'll be operating on the wholesale model--with the extra money sunk into its coffers, not the author's or the publisher's.

But as novelist Barry Eisler notes in the Guardian newspaper, there is actually a glimmer of hope in the DOJ's decision. Amazon could, by sheer pressure of business, force a breakup of the old guard of publishers in the U.S., and make them adapt to the new digital realities or face extinction. In short, they'll have to radically adjust their business models, and also embrace writers who can deliver new rich-media books, if they're to keep the book-buying public enthralled and thus make money. Amazon's quick-growing self-publishing enterprise is an example of how the publishing business may evolve without them if they don't do this.

And what do we, the book-buying public, want? Cheaper prices, as ever, but we're also all expecting books to move beyond dead text and into something much more dynamic, something loaded with rich media, something that makes use of the color and graphics of our tablet screens, and perhaps the social networking powers they also sport as apps. Because those kinds of books sure as heck aren't in Amazon's top-selling Kindle list right now.


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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Sun May 20, 2012 8:38 am

Subliminal Propaganda in Mass Media

Infowars reporter Darrin McBreen reports on subliminal messaging in television, movies and magazines.


http://www.mindbendingvideos.com/sublim ... ass-media/
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Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:27 pm

Just noticed that Bloomberg added a Twitter button right next to its 'Breaking News' headline.

Clearly, this is a strong support of Twitter in real-time news.

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Re: Media Industry

Postby iam802 » Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:12 am

Not sure what is going to happen in Singapore.

Demise of brick and mortar bookstores and authorities censoring ebooks....

I wonder where will we get our books down the road.

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http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/ebook- ... Z0Z0Z0Z0Z0
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:41 pm

Mainland Advertizements

Total advertising spending on the mainland would reach $52.9 billion next year, to become the world's second-largest advertising market, a significant increase from $46.3 billion estimated this year, according to a report by New York-based research firm eMarketer.

It would be the first time the mainland has overtaken Japan in advertising spending, eMarketer said.


Source: SCMP
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:30 am

Newsweek ends 80-year print run, goes all-digital by Rob Lever

Newsweek announced Thursday it would end an 80-year run as a print magazine, taking the venerable publication all-digital in another sign of the woes of an industry struggling in the Internet age.


http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?a ... &buid=3281
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Re: Media Industry

Postby winston » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:21 am

Newspapers Are Hot Stocks — No, Really

But several challenges remain for this beleaguered industry

By Jonathan Berr


While investors were fretting over Europe and obsessing over Wall Street’s latest soap opera, guess what sector has been rallying? Newspaper publishers.

This is not a joke.

But don’t ignore the secular challenges these companies face — there are opportunities for upside in local markets, to be sure, but I’d expect some fits and starts as the industry reinvents itself in the digital era.

http://investorplace.com/2012/10/newspa ... en=3879240
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