cost of color important competitive disadvantage for print
Humans prefer colorful images. That gives a significant cost advantage to digital media over print media. … Read the post cost of color important competitive disadvantage for print
industry structure
communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies
media business model innovation
Gertrude Berg’s direct product sponsorships on The Rise of the Goldbergs shows an important future direction for advertising in new media. … Read the post media business model innovation
artists and performers outperforming sound recordings
The U.S. recorded music business has been in steep decline over the past decade. Compared to ten years ago, U.S. recorded music sales (in 2009 dollars per capita) in 1999 ($71) was nearly three times greater than the corresponding figure ($26) in 2009. In gross nominal terms, music sales declined 46% from 2000 to 2009. … Continue reading artists and performers outperforming sound recordings
the goal of universal service
In 1913 in its magazine Western Electric News, AT&T associated “universal service” with national political identity. Universal service meant one policy, one system. That system was AT&T, the Bell System. By 1913, the U.S. had become a world leader in the prevalence of telephones. Small, non-AT&T telephone companies developed rural telephone service relatively rapidly. Universal … Continue reading the goal of universal service
Robert E. Molyneux, library data hero
Robert E. Molyneux has established at the Library Research Service a huge archive of U.S. library data from fiscal year 1987 to fiscal year 2008. The archive also includes a section of hard-to-find library data reports dating back to 1973. The relevant archive page notes: A number of the publications here are the results of … Continue reading Robert E. Molyneux, library data hero