blogs.smugmug.com — If you're lucky enough to get published in BusinessWeek, don't link to the article - it's prohibited by their User Agreement and they'll ask you to stop. Most other traditional publications are nearly as bad. And they wonder why their businesses are failing?
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philspaceJan 25, 2008
Amen. If someone posts a link to, let's say the Washington Post, or any other site that requires a logon or authentication to view the content, I just walk away and never go back.
Closed AccountJan 25, 2008
In 50 years print media will STILL be more revelent than BLOGS ever were.
stickywheelzJan 25, 2008
This isn't an article about print media being doomed. Its more an article about a few specific print media companies with crappy online policies. Buried.
xris601Jan 28, 2008
It'll be very interesting to see if and how such policies change over time as various media get the message.
matthewcaylorFeb 3, 2008
So true and the first to report on these issues is almost always the print media. No other medium is so tough on itself as print. I agree with many of the comments on the article - print is in changing (in trouble), as many other mediums are, but it will not die.The internet is just as much a threat to radio & television. But hey, atleast Billboards are still safe.
matthewcaylorFeb 3, 2008
I believe it makes you uninformed. But you are a student so it can be forgiven. Many, many print industry leaders have embraced the net and are working hard to integrate the two products. Look to the example of Phila. Inquirer/Daily News and its web component Philly.com.
bocasperFeb 4, 2008
There might be a structural change in the way print media are forced to change their business models. I.e. no doubt old business models are doomed, but that goes for the way advertisers build their business as well. Especially when it comes to managing their client relations. The costs for building and maintaining the relation with clients have for many advertisers reached the level where it threatens their whole business model. It’s simply no longer an option just to increase the “volume”. Clients won’t listen. The old reach and frequency models will kill your business, if it’s up to you clients to decide. Hence the time when a media could defend its revenue just by pointing at the huge number of exposures it provides is gone. In the long run advertisers are more interested in how the unique relation a specific media can provide can be used to build new and smarter business relations with their clients. I don’t know anything about how BusinessWeek is handling their on- and off line business model, but I can understand why many print media prioritize on line solutions that gives them more control over their client relation in favour of general “traffic driving” solutions (if they have to chose between the two!).
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margritaDec 30, 2008
Print media is wheezing as many of the readers are shifting to web to find the latest and daily news. So that’s the reason print media subscription rate is decreased. There are some new digital distribution channels came in and attracting the readers in finding the latest news. Companies such as Pressmart <a class="user" href="http://www.pressmart.net">http://www.pressmart.net</a> helping the print publishers in digitization & new media distribution of print publications and also helping to reach the revenue targets too
omnibetDec 30, 2009
Yup they are doomed, and with the price of gas 3x what it used to be they have refused to help out those who deliver their crap. Unless they all find some interesting reason to make a person walk outside for a newspaper when all the news a person wants can be pulled up online, there's no hope.Regards,Ovidiu CEO <a class="user" href="http://www.omnibet.ro/casa-pariurilor/" rel="nofollow">http://www.omnibet.ro/casa-pariurilor/</a>