Is Print Dead?

By Alan J. Porter

Digital Content for the Next Generation

“Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th Century environment where information is scarce, but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects and schedules.”

– Marshall McLuhan

REPORTOn

Pearl Harbor

REPORTOn

Pearl Harbor

1981 @ Work

1981 @Home

2010 @ Work

2010 @Home

“Here is all the data, and mechanisms for you toextract what you want”

“Give me just the information I need at the time I need it.”

HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE ?

IS PRINT DEAD?

“This new technology has to straddle financial, economic and cultural concerns, … as well as the very different requirements and constraints of the many countries who embrace it.

More than ideas, the success or failure depends on patrons and markets, precarious strategies and the thwarting of piracy, and the ebb and flow of popular demand.”

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“The first age of print was undoubtedly a period of excitement and bold experimentation. But not everyone was convinced that the new invention represented a great leap forward for the book culture.”

“Many book industry professionals received the first indications that blind faith in the new technology would be misplaced.”

IS PRINT DEAD?

WIKI: Grow Your Own For Fun And Profit.

Published Oct, 14th, 2010

Available on B&N.com; Amazon.com

COMING IN 2011“The Content Pool” – How to leverage your company’s biggest hidden asset.

Alan J. Porter – alan@alanporter.com / TheContentPool.com / @alanjporter & @4jsgroup