A fascinating blog post by Arianna Huffington on Magazines and the Internet. It’s worth reading as are some of the many comments – some excellent views for those interested in the impact of the Internet on publishing. As Huffington says and I have written here many times, content is king – now more so than even thanks to the many publishing platforms available.
The Internet provides an alternative publishing platform for the titles which do not justify printing, distributing and displaying in retail stores. The challenge is getting publishers of these poor performing titles to take the step and stop costing the industry millions in efficiency.
Huffington has made a name for herself for in citizen journalism circles. She was in the news a few months back for some “issues” with something claimed to have been written by George Clooney and published at her Huffington Post.