Tidningsindustrin har eventuellt en framtid (om fem år)

Steven Levy tror att en ”Super-Kindle” eventuellt kan rädda tidningsbranschen om fem, tio år:

”Here’s what we really need to make print publications shine: a Super Kindle, made by Amazon or someone else. It would be an inexpensive (cheap enough to lose), always-on device with deep, hi-res color, e-ink, and a touchscreen. You could browse through lush pages by finger-flipping. You’d be able to point at a story on a carefully choreographed front page to access a gorgeously designed article. Tap an ad and an animated demo would begin.”

I New York Review of Books skriver Michael Massing ett epos om bloggar, nätet, mediernas framtid, allt det där:

”In a much-circulated essay, Clay Shirky, an Internet consultant and professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, compares the current turbulence in the news business to the disorder brought about by the invention of the printing press, when old forms of transmitting information were breaking down and new ones had yet to cohere-a transition accompanied by much confusion and uncertainty. The historical analogy can be taken a step further: just as the advent of printing helped break the medieval Church’s hold on the flow of information, so is the rise of the Internet loosening the grip of the corporate-owned mass media. A profound if unsettling process of decentralization and democratization is taking place.”

Paid Content analyserar amerikanska dagstidningars siffror för 2009 och Jeffrey Goldberg roar sig med galghumoristisk parodi på downsizing-bolaget McKinsey’s invasion av Conde Nast.