Ironically, a year ago this week I blogged about my entry into journalism (pick me in the line - up of cadets, above) back when
the demise of print media was unimaginable.
I agree with the conventional wisdom that
the demise of print formats for law journals and law reports is an inevitability and that it will happen in the not too distant future.
Voluntary self - imposed degradation has been overlooked in seeking explanations for the rapid
demise of print journalism.
Noble thoughts, but misplaced I read an interesting blog post the other day about
the demise of print publishing.
I'm just an interior decorator, pointing out the elephant (stores lack e-commerce websites, and thus face competition from a store six states away which does have an online store) and the rotting giant squid (digital comics sales will quicken
the demise of print comics dominance).
That said, I'd hate to see the total
demise of print books, but I do appreciate the advantages of e-ink and one little tablet to contain my library.
Thus, all the predictions about
the demise of print publishing in the face of digital, have been overstated.
The foregoing is prelude to a word on
the demise of the print form of Crisis, an indisputably Catholic magazine.
The demise of the printed book draws parallels to the demise of A.J.'s health, but in a way, it also keeps reading, and books, alive for people in many ways.
Over that year, there have been quite a few technology changes... all seemingly pointing to
the demise of the printed book.
That said, it could still be too early to predict the future of printed books in India as an even greater popularity of ebooks may ultimately lead to
the demise of their printed counterparts.
I think a bigger challenge is of course the dearth of official print case law reporters in Canada and the (eventual)
demise of printed case law reporters all together.
Nick Holmes at Binary Law notes the accelerating
demise of the printed law review journal and other hard - copy forms of legal scholarship: «Where online equivalents are already paid for out of the budget or where free access materials might substitute, print will suffer severely.»
Not exact matches
«People talked about the
demise of physical books as if it was only a matter
of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now,
print will be a big chunk
of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.
«Our attention as solicitors to Mr. David Adeleke aka Davido, has been drawn to statements and comments both on the social, electronic and
print media including but not limited to a very recent publication by national daily, wherein various statements credited to the Acting Commissioner
of Police, Lagos State, Mr. Edgal Imohimi, insinuating inter alia that our client has a case to answer in the unfortunate
demise of one Mr. Tagbo Umeike.
A long - out -
of -
print 1975 collection edited by Todd McCarthy and Charles Flynn, Kings
of the Bs, contains invaluable information about the evolution and
demise of B - films.
It wasn't that long ago that everyone was predicting the end
of print and the
demise of small bookstores.
The deciding factor that contributed to her
demise was the transferring
of more than 50 staff members from the
print newspaper to the digital operation.
Quite the contrary, a surfeit
of doomsayers saw in the arrival
of eBooks and eBook readers — the sales
of which dropped by eight million last year — the end
of print or at least the
demise of given literary forms, like the novel.
As ebook sales continue to trounce those
of print books, and now with the
demise of Borders, surely it's only a matter
of days until someone — probably a guest poster on this very blog — declares the death
of the physical book.
An author with the branding and readership that Jodi Picoult has can probably come away from a situation like these negotiations with her sales intact, as evidenced by her # 1 NYT spot for her latest
print release, but as Gross pointed out in the article, debut and newer authors stand to lose a lot in sales and fan growth, which will only perpetuate the cycle
of bookstore and publisher
demise.
Back in 2013 you could find fields
of blooming blogsters predicting the imminent
demise of traditional
print publishing.
And then they charge
print price or more for a quasi-unreadable book... And congratulate themselves on the
demise of e-books.
The majority
of the correspondents cite busyness as the cause
of the ereader's
demise but nearly a quarter prefer their
print books over a digital reader.
«People talked about the
demise of physical books as if it was only a matter
of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now,
print will be a big chunk
of our business,» said Markus Dohle, the chief executive
of Penguin Random House, which has nearly 250 imprints globally.
But was it not scientists, with their words
printed in the Guardian, repeated by policy - makers, which warned
of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation
of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency
of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent
demise of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial
of water to over a billion people; The deaths
of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each year; and so on?