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The Death Of Print: rumours much exaggerated?

“May you live in interesting times” is something of a cliché, often referred to as ‘The Chinese Curse’ and generally agreed to be apocryphal (whatever that means).

Whoever first said it, it would certainly appear to be true if you’re involved in print publishing right now.

Earlier this year Encyclopaedia Britannica ceased publication of its print edition which was first published in Edinburgh in 1768. Last month Bertelsmann and Pearson announced the merger of their respective subsidiaries, Random House and Penguin. Around the same time, Newsweek announced that it is to stop publishing its print edition at the […]

Mike Berry2012-11-15T21:47:00+00:00November 15th, 2012|General, Integration, Trends|2 Comments

2010: The Year Of The Tablet

What do you want for Christmas? Well apparently thousands of us will be hoping Santa brings us a tablet computer. Last year that wasn’t really an option (btw how much am I bid for a 2009 netbook?). On January 27th 2010, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed “Netbooks aren’t better at anything!” (although to be fair, Steve, most are at least pretty good at multitasking and many even support Flash). He went on, as had been widely predicted, to introduce a ‘magical and revolutionary product’: the

Mike Berry2021-09-23T17:05:46+00:00December 5th, 2010|Tech companies|9 Comments

Changing Times. But will we pay?

Today, we find a place to rent or a house to buy, we book a holiday and stay in touch with our friends using different technologies from those our parents relied on 25 years ago. We all know the internet has changed the world, both economically and sociologically. We call it ‘The Internet Revolution’, but this wasn’t just an event which occurred in 1998 (say) and then stopped. It’s an ongoing process. This is the Revolution. We’re in it. And big changes will […]

Mike Berry2021-08-16T23:18:24+00:00June 14th, 2010|Trends|6 Comments