Boris Kachka probes the ailing publishing business model in an in-depth New York Magazine article titled, of all things, ‘The End.’
The situation seems to be that writers no longer have a problem reaching an audience. And the audience has so many new options other than books. Which means that the publishers, and their chosen authors, aren’t making as much money these days.
Then there’s Magnus Berger, a graphic designer at Baron & Baron, who is publishing ‘The Last Magazine.’ Funny how the website and blog came first. But then the magazine does need to acquire an audience. It’s to arrive somewhere, biannually.
Fabien Baron is a very talented designer, who gained fame for his magazine design. There is only one Baron. However, some call the firm Baron & Baron & Baron & Baron & Baron & Baron.
Found this in the ‘drafts’ folder, it’s old news but interesting –
Amazon’s digital reading device Kindle is finally back on their warehouse shelves.
The New York Times
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dedicated his most recent shareholder letter to explaining his cultural ambitions for the Kindle. Laptops, BlackBerrys and mobile phones have “shifted us more toward information snacking, and I would argue toward shorter attention spans.” He hopes that “Kindle and its successors may gradually and incrementally move us over years into a world with longer spans of attention, providing a counterbalance to the recent proliferation of info-snacking tools.”
“Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age” – published in hardcover last November, and now available for the Kindle – author Jeff Gomez.
