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Category Archives: distribution

Charlie Beckett: News Is Like Water (guest post)

Posted on 6 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe
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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."
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That’s the Press, Baby: It’s Only Logistical

Posted on 6 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe
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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."
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Guardian: The online money is in distribution, not content

Posted on 10 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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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."
Posted in BSkyB, content, distribution, Emap, kindle, links | 1 Reply

International Herald Tribune: Why big newspapers applaud some declines in circulation

Posted on 1 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe
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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."
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Martin StabeMartin Stabe is a journalist based in London. He is an interactive producer at the Financial Times, primarily working on developing the databases underlying FT.com’s interactive graphics and the FT data blog. This is a personal site, and nothing here reflects the views of the FT.

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