Charlie Beckett: News Is Like Water (guest post)
Saturday, 6 June 2009, 06:33
Eli Lipmen: "[The] efforts last week by the newspapers to figure out a ‘models to monetize content’ will ultimately be doomed by their inability, unlike their [wire service] predecessors in the 19th century, to control the distribution of knowledge because they cannot monopolize the lines of transmission."
That’s the Press, Baby: It’s Only Logistical
Saturday, 6 June 2009, 06:30
David Sullivan: "[Newspapers] are essentially a logistics business that happens to employ journalists. That's why newspapers didn't invent Google. That's why journalists, most of whom have little idea what an inserter is, always seem ahead of the business side folks on new technology."
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 10:57
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Charles Arthur: "I know that we keep hearing that "content is king". But … t it won’t be the content creators who’ll have the chokehold; it’ll be the controllers of the distribution channels. In other words, distribution, not content, is king."
Monday, 1 October 2007, 10:55
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"Driven by marketing and delivery costs and pressure from advertisers, many [US] papers have decided certain readers are not worth the expense involved in finding, serving and keeping them."
