3 posts and columns on flexibility

Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.

in Media on February 9, 2010 at 6:56 am PT

Book publishers itching to raise the prices on their e-books should pay attention to the music labels, which raised the prices on their downloads last spring. Consumers, it turns out, like paying less for stuff.

New York Times: We Won’t Have to Shutter the Boston Globe After All

in Media on May 4, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

The New York Times, which had threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless that paper’s unions agreed to major concessions, says it got what it needed from the Globe’s workers after all. Once exception: The Globe’s unionized editorial employees, who have yet to come to terms with the paper’s owner. The Times make ominous sounds about what might happen–“evaluating our alternatives”–but nothing specific.