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Is Print Journalism Dead?

November 20, 2012

Is print journalism dead? I got the question overnight in email from a student working on a research paper. He’d seen this post on this blog about that. He asked me to answer these three questions.  So these are his questions with my answers.  1.) What are the factors that have led to falling sales? Start [...]

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The Mac vs. Windows Rivalry is Dead. Apple Won.

May 10, 2012

Whoops. It suddenly occurred to me: the old Mac-Windows rivalry is dead. There goes a bit of industry history.  It used to be fun, back in the old days, when it mattered. If you’re old enough you’ll remember the famous 1984 Macintosh ad. I was generally forgiven by the Mac zealots for my weakness for [...]

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About Time: Ebooks Outselling Printed Books

May 24, 2011

Last week Jeff Bezos announced that E-books now outsell print books at amazon.com. Computerworld reported: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the e-book threshold arrived sooner than expected. “Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books,” he said. “We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would [...]

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Not the Customer's Job to Know What They Want

April 27, 2011

There was a nice short video on TechCrunch the other day, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, John Doerr, and two other industry leaders on how much the iPad has changed “everything.” I picked it up because of what John Doerr says near the end. The video snippet I’ve embedded here skips directly to my favorite part, at [...]

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Is Flipboard's Buzz Bad Timing or Good Marketing?

July 28, 2010

What do you think? Is this bad timing, a buzz-killing mistake, or artificial scarcity that creates more buzz? I was in an email conversation recently with the founder of one of the coolest new news apps available on the iPad, and he asked me what I thought about Flipboard. I’m guessing why he asked: all [...]

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With or Without Paper, the News Lives On. I hope.

July 16, 2010

As the newspaper business seems to die slowly, I console myself with the idea that journalism isn’t dying with it. The Huffington Post is booming. The New York Times will bring in about $350 million this year. The new iPad shows us how we can spread the paper in front of us with coffee and [...]

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Traveling With iPad Alone

May 17, 2010

I’m writing this post from a hotel in San Francisco, using my new 3G iPad (propped against the wall on the desk) and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. This was supposed to be a quick trip, Friday to Monday, helping my youngest daughter move from Palo Alto to San Francisco. It was going to be a [...]

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What Amazon and iPad Teach us About Strategy

May 7, 2010

I love it: now when I buy a Kindle book from Amazon.com, I can have it on my iPhone, my iPad, my Mac laptop, my Windows laptop, my Mac Desktop, or my Windows desktop. This makes me feel like I really own the book. If I have a spare 10 minutes, just about wherever I [...]

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Business Strategy in Action, or Reaction, Both, or Neither

February 4, 2010

Apple vs. Kindle vs. publishers, oh my. Do you know the background? It’s all over the web. And I posted here this week about how Apple and Amazon.com and Macmillan are wrapped up in an ebook battle. And it gets better. As I write this, Wednesday evening, the news is that Amazon gave in and put [...]

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eBooks: Hot, Flat, Crowded, and Not on Amazon.com. Let the Games Begin

February 1, 2010

(Important: late-breaking news. Since this was posted earlier today, Amazon has reversed its position on this. Macmillan is back, but with its own pricing on the Kindle. This is important. Here’s a link.) eBook wars, you say? On one hand, it’s about time. On the other, wow, this is strategy in action. And interesting spectacle [...]

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