Notes from the
Did television eliminate radio? No. Have DVDs eliminated movie theaters? No.
MRH Staff
In both examples, the new media form greatly altered the market and how media is produced, but the new medium did not eliminate the old one.
MRH turns 3, Lew Matt update, Survey Reminder, Standard or Embedded?
MRH gets three candles
Figure 1: Reading MRH on an iPad and an iPhone. You can also read MRH quite well on the new Amazon Kindle Fire (not shown). been and where we see hobby publishing going.
Model Railroad Hobbyist is three years old! It’s appropriate we stop and take a look at where we’ve
Let’s get one question settled immediately. Do we see paper publishing going away? No.
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There’s no question the economics of paper publishing keep getting tougher. Just look at the recent demise of Model Railroad News. Paper will continue in some cases, but the scope and breadth will be forever altered as digital media become ever more accessible by individuals. I don’t think anyone would question the economics of publishing these
days favors digital, and as the mobile Internet gains momentum, any remaining barriers to consuming digital media are coming down. For example, a common complaint on the modeling forums against MRH is “I can’t read it in my easy chair, in bed, or in the bathroom. I also can’t read it when I’m on the go.” Well, I can read MRH in my easy chair, in bed, in the bathroom, and on the go. In fact, I can take the entire MRH collection since we started in 2009 with me – it’s at my fingertips! I do this using my iPad. I can do this on our $199 Kindle Fire. I can even read MRH on my iPhone!
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