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Print is Eternal – or…

The following is the first few lines in a hilarious discussion between more or less extinct media types.

Moderator: Welcome to Obsolete Anonymous! I’ve gathered you all here to welcome our latest member, the Print Industry.
Print Industry: Hello, everyone. But there’s been a mistake. I don’t belong here.
(chuckles all around)
Print Industry: I’m serious. I’m not obsolete. I’m relevant. Print books have been around for hundreds of years. They’re never going to be replaced.
VHS Tapes: Yeah, we all thought like that once.
LP Records: It’s called denial. It’s tough to deal with at first.

You can read the full text at A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing. Thanks to Patrick Henry at the Print CEO blog for the alert.

Old media is dying…

The classic oldtimer magazine Reader’s Digest is going bankrupt. Or maybe it is more correct to say that the Reader’s Digest Association is trying to survive after reaching an agreement with its creditors to reduce debt. So the magazine will maybe survive under bankruptcy protection. My father used to read the Swedish version of Reader’s Digest, and occassionally I spotted books from Reader’s Digest with other people in his generation. But this was long ago – who is actually reading their publications today?
Read more at Folio Magazine.