New-look Observer Magazine fails again

Why, oh why, can’t the Observer produce a decent colour magazine?

Over the years it’s had more re-launches than the Cromer lifeboat and still produces a sinking feeling every Sunday morning.

Possibly because the Observer has never really had its heart in it.

While the Sunday Times Magazine and the Telegraph Magazine (appearing on Friday, Sunday and Saturday [...]

Why magazines will flourish in the digital age

Re Post-Medium Publishing

In his essay on Post-Medium Publishing (http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html) Paul Graham presents many reasons why consumers in a digital age will not be prepared to pay for content – then confesses he’s not sure what “content” means. To him the word suggests “undifferentiated slurry.”

To publishers and broadcasters the word is very clearly differentiated by way [...]