A presentation discussing the challenges of publishers. The second slide is important - on the right you see the first magazine ever published, and on the left all the revolutions that changed the way people value and consume content. Amazingly enough - magazine industry haven't changed at all.

1. Future of Publishing
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2. magazine (n): a periodical
publication containing
articles and illustration
covering a particular
subject or area of interest
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3. It makes increasingly
less sense even to talk
about a publishing
industry, because the
core problem
publishing solves — the
incredible difficulty,
complexity, and
expense of making
something available to
the public — has
stopped being a
problem.
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4. People are only willing
to pay for financial
information and niche
kinds of porn
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5. Savior?
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6. It’s not about
technology. It’s about
reinventing the
Future of Publishing
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7. Distribution
Content Creation
Monetization
Community
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