Publishing Executive Blogs

What’s the Best Way to Correct a Mistake?
Oct 15, 2009

On the Web, you can simply open a file back up, and with a couple of keystrokes one's screw-up is a thing of the past. Try doing that in a magazine!

• Does Print Have "One Life to Live?"
  Oct 2, 2009

• The No. 1 Rule in B-to-B Audience Development
  Sep 17, 2009

• Digital Publishing's Future is Mobile
  Aug 31, 2009

• Lessons from Relaunching a 50-year-old Magazine's Web Site
  Aug 14, 2009

• Is This a Way the Cookie Crumbles?
  Jul 16, 2009

• It's Not Print That's Dying, It's Print Journalism
  Jun 29, 2009

• The New World Order for Publishers
  May 27, 2009

• Are Ad Networks Your Savior or More Nails in Your Coffin?
  May 12, 2009

• Are You Smarter Than Facebook and Twitter?
  Apr 27, 2009

• Sure-fire Ways to Increase Your Online Ad Business
  Mar 27, 2009

• Do Social Media Sites Pose a Hidden Threat to Publishers?
  Mar 3, 2009

• The E-Book, E-Paper, Kindle Challenge
  Feb 19, 2009

• It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine... I Think
  Feb 4, 2009

• What's in a Name? Everything! (in memoriam AOL)
  Jan 15, 2009

• Content is King, or Is It?
  Dec 18, 2008

• US Government to Bail Out Publishing Companies
  Dec 9, 2008

• Do You Know Any Good Offshore Web Designers?
  Nov 21, 2008

• Be Careful What You Wish For
  Oct 21, 2008

• How to Prevent Your Online Business from Needing an Economic Bail-Out... I Mean Rescue
  Oct 9, 2008

• The Death of Display Ads and What Interactive Can Learn From Print
  Sep 25, 2008

• BPA May Know What It's Doing After All
  Sep 11, 2008

• Stop Being So Negative
  Aug 12, 2008

• Are You Immune From the Law like Facebook, Google, et al?
  Jul 30, 2008

• The Sites You Visit May Know More About You Than You Think
  Jul 16, 2008

• If the Web Were a Soap Opera, Google and the IAB Would Be Sleeping Together
  Jun 26, 2008

• Does Anyone Know the Heimlich?
  Jun 16, 2008

• Stop Predicting the Future — You Can’t
  May 28, 2008

• Competition Should Give Way to Collaboration
  May 7, 2008

• The Best Online Ad Ever
  Apr 22, 2008

• New Publisher Who Will Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
  Apr 10, 2008

• Why Print Advertising May Not Be as Doomed as People Think
  Mar 24, 2008

• See You Monday, Bob
  Mar 7, 2008

• The Print Death Watch Has Begun
  Feb 27, 2008

• Living Paperless
  Feb 22, 2008

• 10 Rules for a Successful Web Site
  Feb 14, 2008

• Will Digital Editions Survive?
  Feb 1, 2008

• Google is Growing Too Fast and Here’s Why
  Jan 24, 2008

• Enough is Enough. Stop Sending Me E-mail
  Jan 8, 2008

• The Next Big Thing in Online Advertising
  Dec 19, 2007

• Editors Get Fired, Are You Next?
  Dec 7, 2007

• The Price is Right … or is It Wrong?
  Nov 28, 2007

• Why Barry Diller Rules
  Nov 20, 2007

• Should You Join the IAB (or Show Up at ad:tech)?
  Nov 7, 2007

• User-Generated Content is Nothing New
  Oct 25, 2007

• User-Generated Interviews
  Oct 17, 2007

• Help! Visitors are Spending Less Time on My Web Site
  Oct 11, 2007

• Click Fraud Network: Too Little Too Late, or Just in the Nick of Time?
  Oct 4, 2007

• Extreme Makeover - Web Site Edition
  Sep 28, 2007

• Are You Getting the Most from Your E-Newsletters?
  Sep 14, 2007

• Why the Web Stinks and Print Doesn’t
  Sep 5, 2007

• Getting Your E-mail Newsletter Delivered, Opened and Read
  Aug 30, 2007

• Is the Future of Video Advertising Now?
  Aug 22, 2007

• Get Your Web Site Rated #1 and Boost Traffic by a Million Vistors
  Aug 7, 2007

• The World Wide GooWeb - Vote to Rename the Internet!
  Jul 30, 2007

• When Will Bob Sacks Stop Writing About Printing on Dead Trees?
  Jul 18, 2007

• Why Print Really Could Die
  Jul 13, 2007

• Examples of Online Publishing Gone Wild
  Jun 25, 2007

• Are Web Browser Bookmarks Dead?
  Jun 14, 2007

• My View on Snoozepapers... I Mean Newspapers
  Jun 8, 2007

• Doing Social Networking Right
  May 31, 2007

• An Open RFP to ESPs -- I want “ESPN”
  May 24, 2007

• Just Call Things What They Really Are - Lessons in Usability
  May 9, 2007

• Print Publishers Surviving in an Online World
  Apr 30, 2007

• What Google’s Purchase of DoubleClick Means to Publishers and Advertisers
  Apr 16, 2007

• Editors Won’t Be Buying Me Lunch Anytime Soon
  Apr 13, 2007

• Web “Insert Number Here” Point Oh!
  Apr 9, 2007

Selling Our Principles at Every Turn
Oct 9, 2009

What am I ranting about today? We, as an industry, have put a damn "pitch" on everything

• The Time Is Now for Publishers to Get Granular
  Sep 25, 2009

• Inching Closer to a Ubiquitous Electronic Reading Platform
  Sep 11, 2009

• A Reminder: We're Still in the Word Business
  Sep 4, 2009

• Publishing's Distant Shore
  Aug 28, 2009

• It's Not Your Father's Business Anymore
  Aug 20, 2009

• Coming Soon: Software That Tells You Not to Believe Everything You Read
  Aug 14, 2009

• The Value of Words
  Aug 7, 2009

• Advertising Has Changed Forever
  Jul 23, 2009

• Introducing the "Reporter"
  Jul 13, 2009

• Is Microsoft Right About Magazines' Future?
  Jun 26, 2009

• Why I'm Skeptical of MRI's New Ad Effectiveness Ratings
  Jun 18, 2009

• Memo to Diller: The Internet Is Not Free
  Jun 12, 2009

• Who's Steering Your Ship?
  Jun 5, 2009

• Can You Find Long-Lasting Trends in Publishing?
  May 6, 2009

• The End of Civilization As We Know It
  Apr 30, 2009

• BoSacks Speaks Out: on Digital Editions, E-readers and the Apple Rumor Mill
  Apr 16, 2009

• A Map of the World's Newspapers
  Apr 10, 2009

• BoSacks Speaks Out on 'Mr. Magazine'
  Mar 30, 2009

• Hear Bob Speak at Upcoming Show (for Free)
  Mar 13, 2009

• An Irrational Fear of the Unknown
  Mar 6, 2009

• The Value of Associations in Times Like These
  Feb 27, 2009

• Next Stop: Publishing Prosperity
  Feb 17, 2009

• Get Your Head Into the Clouds
  Jan 30, 2009

• Networked Link Journalism
  Jan 23, 2009

• The Key to Publishing's Survival
  Jan 15, 2009

• The Publishing Canary Theory Revisited
  Jan 7, 2009

• A Time for Reflection and Hope
  Dec 19, 2008

• Momentous Media News Break Delivered This Week by Google
  Dec 12, 2008

• A Death and a Life
  Dec 5, 2008

• The Publishing Community Will Not Perish
  Nov 19, 2008

• Owning the Turf
  Oct 31, 2008

• I Own Every Great Book Ever Written and They Are All in My Pocket
  Oct 24, 2008

• Why I Don't Trust PIB's Ad Revenue Reports
  Oct 17, 2008

• Stay Calm, Don't Panic ... and Step Away From the Ledge
  Oct 9, 2008

• BoSacks Speaks Out: On E-Ink, Esquire and Mankind
  Oct 2, 2008

• A Quick Lesson in How to Save the Magazine Industry
  Sep 25, 2008

• Another Paper Price Increase, Another Reason to Abandon Print?
  Aug 27, 2008

• Is Print Dead?
  Aug 20, 2008

• Today, I Only Have Questions
  Aug 15, 2008

• Why Esquire Magazine Is Your Future
  Jul 30, 2008

• Airline Ditches In-flight Magazines
  Jul 21, 2008

• IDG’s Clear Vision for the Future
  Jul 14, 2008

• How Much Does Free Really Cost?
  Jun 26, 2008

• A Monolith Has Fallen
  Jun 18, 2008

• Blogs as News Sources for Radio Stations?
  Jun 9, 2008

• The Next Big Thing?
  Jun 2, 2008

• You, Me and the Internet
  May 22, 2008

• Next Job for Bob … at the MET?
  May 13, 2008

• Happy Birthday SPAM
  May 5, 2008

• The Dilemma of Digital Rights Management
  Apr 28, 2008

• What’s Happening to Us? Here’s What I Know…
  Apr 18, 2008

• What Will Your Job Be Called 10 Years From Now?
  Apr 11, 2008

• Heading Full Throttle Into the World of E-Reading
  Mar 31, 2008

• So What Is a Magazine, Anyway?
  Mar 26, 2008