I’ve been obsessed for years with understanding how we consume types of media – what’s going on in people’s lives, environment, and heads when they read, watch or listen to the things we write, produce, record, create, publish and whatnot. How do our eyes move when we the page of a book, newspaper or magazine? […]
We can see the future of newspapers now. Get in the habit of paying again.
I just read my Sunday Birmingham News, the last remnant of the newspaper I grew up with. The one where I spent the first decade of my career. The one where I learned to write. Advance Publications, which owns the newspaper, also publishes print editions on Wednesday and Friday, but I dropped all but Sunday […]
More “straws in wind” point toward strong tablet growth
The Economist has been a remarkable story in its own right, emerging in the past few years as a dominant news source for American readers. Clearly, they’ve been doing some things right, so it’s worth watching to see where they’re going next. That’s why it’s significant that they just put Oscar Grut, who heads up […]
USC study: Newspapers, desktop computers dying
Most print newspapers will disappear in five years. Social media is the future of communication, but more than half of us don’t believe what we read there. Meanwhile, privacy is a lost cause, and we’re paying a high personal price for being connected. That’s the stark picture painted in a new report by USC’s Annenberg […]
Tablets may be treating our national ADD, promoting us to read more in-depth news
One question we’ve all had from the first news of the iPad is whether tablets will replace desktops, laptops, print and television as a way to get news. The answer seems to be yes, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center (collaborating with The Economist Group). The study — conducted during the […]
Major study of tablet users due this week
We’re about to learn a lot more about tablet users — who they are, how they’re using their tablets, and how tablets change the way they consume the news. That’s the word from the The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which collaborated with The Economist Group on what they are calling “the most […]
The last gasp of hardware for delivering entertainment
I’ve known for a decade that physical storage (paper and plastic) would eventually die as a delivery mechanism for movies and music. I just didn’t know when. Now it’s becoming clear to anybody who connects the dots that judgement day is here. Three events within the last month dramatize this reality: Netflix raised prices 60% […]
E-Reader use growing faster than tablets
When the iPad rolled out in the spring of 2010, a lot of us assumed that it would immediately eclipse the humble e-Reader (aka Kindle), but so far, that hasn’t been the case. As of May, 12% of us own e-Readers, whereas only 8% own tablets, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. […]