Amazon needs competition as much as Hachette does … let’s do something about...
There has been a shortage of calm, witty, Establishment voices answering the foes of Amazon.com howling about Jeff Bezos hammering the last nails into the coffin of literary culture. One of these rare...
View ArticleO public libraries, what are you doing in the great indie book publishing...
... When a library director has to be replaced, does the typical library board – or electorate, when the vetting is democratic – know what to look for, to choose the right leader for our times? That...
View ArticleTestimonial of an ink-stained scribbler at the digital crossroads, part 1:...
Two weeks ago, I did something I would once have considered shameful, if not humiliating. I published a book that could be mistaken, from the look of its opening pages, for something a frothing...
View ArticleThe Guardian wants to look like a Facebook extension, but the right model for...
Next week, editorial staff at the newspaper with one of the three most-visited English-language sites on the net will be offered the unusual chance to vote for their next editor-in-chief – even though...
View ArticlePope Francis: a pontiff putting post-Gutenberg media slugabeds to shame
The astonishing Argentinian Pope Francis, who is 78 and breathing with only one lung, does not expect to live long – hence is racing to do all he can, as fast as possible, to rid the Vatican of...
View ArticleInventory-taking time for post-Gutenberg.com
Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year. Ogden Nash, ‘Thar She Blows,’ Versus (1949) How spring came to...
View ArticleAdapt-or-die advice for newspapers being squeezed out by Facebook: create...
… Symphysis: the process of growing together (Oxford Dictionaries Online) syn– + phyein, to make grow, bring forth (American Heritage Dictionary) … Why are Facebook and Google sucking up most of the...
View ArticleWanted: a brave newspaper, for an experiment in which readers become...
… … The purpose of this entry on post-Gutenberg is to reverse the unexplained disappearance from search engines of the headline and link for the site’s very first post, which launched p-G on 5...
View ArticleDaring, risky innovation by a famously conservative — notoriously hidebound —...
… … Believing the impossible gets easier with practice — say, half an hour a day, the White Queen advises Alice in Through the Looking-Glass. Here’s a mental barbell for anyone else attempting that...
View ArticleMystery solved? Famous newspapers that ignored the Social Media Strike of...
… [ Significant sections of this post-Gutenberg.com entry were edited for clarity on 2 November 2019 ] The question of why so many famous newspapers railing against Big Tech failed to alert their...
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