Imagine that in 1979 U.S. newspaper publishers somehow had had access to a time machine that revealed how the advent of the internet would impact their business 30 years hence. What steps might they have taken to ensure continued profitability in an age of instant, free access to information?
In a sense, India has such a [...]
You’ve heard the cliché: ‘necessity is the mother of invention.’ When it comes to the newspaper business, one might also substitute ‘desperation’ for necessity.
In Chris Anderson’ new book, Free: A Future of a Radical Price, the Wired Editor-in-Chief talks about the psychological barrier that free represents for consumers. Once the ‘free’ line is crossed, at [...]
In March, at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Steven Berlin Johnson presented a framework for understanding how the media landscape has evolved over the past decade – and where it may be heading over the next. (You can read Johnson’s speech on his blog, stevenberlinjohnson.com.)
Johnson suggested it’s too early to conclude that [...]
The term “thought leader” is sometimes used rather freely, especially in the world of business.
For an example of genuine thought leaders, one need only follow the recent public controversy stirred by Malcolm Gladwell’s review of Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired, and Gladwell, a contributor [...]