Holtz Communications + Technology

Much has been made of the statistics cited in a press release issued December 14 by MediaFinder. According to the release, 275 new magazines were launched while 428 folded. These numbers were presented as further evidence of print’s inevitable demise.

There’s no question that the Net is having a profound impact on the publishing business. Many of the major titles that shuttered print…

IABC President Julie Freeman

I was thumbing through my Sunday newspaper earlier this week when I came upon a full-page feature that, despite the dullness of the topic and my own lack of interest in government finance, drew me in. “State Budget 101” featured a cartoon professor walking you through a plain-English explanation of the key issues underlying California’s budget crisis with simple-to-understand charts and graphs. Here’s…

Fuat Kircaali, the founder and CEO of

Sys-Con Media, has been outlandish in his predictions for the success of his latest venture, a self-publishing site called Ulitzer. (That’s “Pulitzer” without the “P.” Get it?)

How great does Kircaali think the prospects are for the site? “Within the next five years, Time Magazine, the Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, Conde Nast Traveler, and Wikipedia will be replaced by…

The “print is dead” meme is based on a couple simple assumptions. First, the digital world can do anything print can do, only better. And second, the economics of print—from turning trees into pulp into paper, then managing the distribution channels—just won’t cut it.

The evidence supporting the meme just keeps pouring in, like word today that The New York Times Company plans to shut down The…

Print’s not dead. Regardless of what the digital purists say, there are plenty of uses for print. As I’ve noted before, I don’t foresee the complete migration from print to digital for graphic novels and comic books, baseball cards, direct mail pieces, or the brochures they give you when you walk into Disneyland or that you find in racks in front of tourist…