Here’s your cake

I subscribe to a lot of magazines – almost 20, by a recent count. There…

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Sunshine and water

In early December, I came across an obituary of Don Swanson, someone I'd not heard…

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A media guru event

Quantum Media regularly hosts a series of breakfast conversations with "media gurus". In December I…

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Small, medium or large

Writing for The Guardian, Faber & Faber chief executive Stephen Page recently claimed that the…

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Coals to Newcastle

I started writing about publishing containers in 2009. I found “container” to be a useful…

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Market failures

Over the holidays, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, Randi, was surprised when a picture she…

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Lost horizons

I have long been a bit skeptical about people who get promoted every year or…

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Rattling locks

We own something north of 500 movies. About 80% are kept on some form of…

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