{"id":390,"date":"2014-08-07T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/?p=390"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:34:35","slug":"there-is-no-digital-transformation-in-the-publishing-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2014\/08\/07\/there-is-no-digital-transformation-in-the-publishing-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no digital transformation in the publishing industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the simple reason that there is no publishing industry. <\/p>\n<p>This article &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/deadtreeedition.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/is-print-really-killing-publishers.html\">Is Print Really Killing Publishers?<\/a> &#8212; makes the point very well. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no such thing as &#8220;the&#8221; publishing industry, only publishing industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigital transformation\u201d is a chameleon term in the publishing industries. It can be about web sites, digital editions, apps, e-newsletters, or shiny new object of the week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s exactly right. Any generic talk about &#8220;digital transformation&#8221; in <i>the<\/i> publishing industry is misguided and bound to mislead. Radically different rules apply to news weeklies, romance novels, art books, legal services, etc., and it&#8217;s very important for publishing professionals to keep things separate. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that lots of paperback readers have moved to kindle does not mean that lots of magazine readers will move to iPad. Different rules apply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the simple reason that there is no publishing industry. This article &#8212; Is Print Really Killing Publishers? &#8212; makes the point very well. There is no such thing as &#8220;the&#8221; publishing industry, only publishing industries. \u201cDigital transformation\u201d is a chameleon term in the publishing industries. It can be about web sites, digital editions, apps, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2014\/08\/07\/there-is-no-digital-transformation-in-the-publishing-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;There is no digital transformation in the publishing industry&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}