"There's going to be billions of dollars for the next 20 years in print," says industry analyst. By 2020, about 58% of the US periodical industry will be digital, according to mediaIDEAS. Economics and user habits are tipping toward digital and away from print.
"There's going to be billions of dollars for the next 20 years in print," says industry analyst. By 2020, about 58% of the US periodical industry will be digital, according to mediaIDEAS. Economics and user habits are tipping toward digital and away from print.
"There's going to be billions of dollars for the next 20 years in print," says industry analyst. By 2020, about 58% of the US periodical industry will be digital, according to mediaIDEAS. Economics and user habits are tipping toward digital and away from print.
Print vs Online: Can There Be a Cohabitation of Competing Media and How Readers Can Benet I f youre reading this article on the printed page, you realize that the death of print has been greatly exaggerated. Everybodys talking about the death of print, but thats just not going to happen, says Bob Sacks, a publishing industry analyst. Theres going to be billions of dollars for the next 20 years in print. How- ever, within the next 5 to 10 years, the chances youll still be reading a printed version of the Journal will become at least a little less likely, as devices like iPads (Apple, Cupertino, CA) continue to improve and win more converts, and as publishers con- tinue to shift their focus to the elec- tronic. Primarily the way people read will be digital, Sacks says. Across the publishing industry, whether its books, commercial maga- zines, or trade publications, econom- ics and user habits are tipping toward digital and away from print. That tip- ping point may vary wildly across the industry, perhaps even from title to titlebut as a force, it is irreversible, Sacks says. By 2020, according to me- diaIDEAS, a consulting rm Sacks owns with other industry analysts, about 58% of the US periodical indus- try will be digital (1). Recently, in a highly publicized campaign, Maga- zines: The Power of Print (2), commer- cial magazine publishers championed the growth of print subscribers as a sign that business is returning to nor- mal. But in an editorial for Publish- ing Executive, citing data fromthe Pub- lishers Information Bureau, Sacks writes: This year we will publish more printed magazine titles than we pro- duced last year. Next year we will probably publish and produce more printed magazine titles than this year. The unfortunate corollary to this prediction is that in each year, we have been and will continue to pro- duce fewer and fewer printed pages. The industry we know and love . . . has fundamentally and irreversibly changed (3). The story is similar throughout publishing. The sale of e-books is pre- dicted to hit $3 billion by 2015, at which point that format, not the bound book as we know it, will drive that in- dustry, predicts James McQuivey, a consumer products analyst for For- rester Research (4). Wharton Digital Press (formerly Wharton School Pub- lishing, a division of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsyl- vania and Pearson Education), which publishes business books aimed at managers, will cease printing titles this year in favor of an e-bookonly strategy, says executive director Stephen Kobrin. As for niche trade magazine publishers, something like 60% or more have moved to a digital magazine format, Sacks says. This big-picture transition, how- ever, doesnt mean that the Journal will stop printing copies anytime soon. Member-driven health publica- tions like the Journal may be among the last to give up print, says Karen Hunter, a senior vice president with the Journals publisher Elsevier. Hunter was instrumental in starting the electronic database ScienceDirect in the mid 90s. In 2007, she pub- lished a paper examining the print to digital transition called, The End of Print Journals: (In)Frequently Asked Questions. The biggest question, When is the end, is still unanswered, she says. Theres an understanding at Elsevier and its partners that paper will recede, Hunter says. But when- ever she asks other executives if there is an end-date for the printed journal in mind, the answer is always no. As long as theres still a demand for print, its a disservice to everyone to stop. CONTENT 2.0: A SLOW CHANGE The demise of print is actually an old story. A 2010 study by the University of California at San Diego nds that Americans print consumption has de- clined since 1960 (5). When people say, Print is dead, what theyre re- ally talking about is the habit of print, says Jeff MacIntyre, founder of Predicate, a content strategy con- sultant for digital publishers. More people are getting all of their daily news online, or a great percentage of it, or their sports scores, driving di- rections, shoppingit adds up to be- come this overwhelming media diet. Meantime, reading has only in- creased. First, the rise of computers and then the Internet has boosted the volume of the written word dramati- cally, according to the same study: Reading, which was in decline due to the growth of television, tripled from 1980 to 2008, because it is the over- whelmingly preferred way to receive words on the Internet (5). This shift in reader habits to more screen time is rippling through the publishing industry, forcing an ongo- ing, often painful restructuring of the way it does business. Although, as mentioned previously, not necessarily at the same pace. For many small commercial publishers, going exclu- sively digital saves money. We no longer print because postage has gone crazy, says Molly Joss, publisher of the Seybold Report, an independent newsletter on publishing and printing technologies. I cant get the rates that big publishers get. The change also hit libraries swiftly. According to a 2007 study by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the num- ber of institutional print subscrip- tions drops every year, going from 64% of library subscriptions in 2002 to 30% in 2006 (6). In that same time This article was written by Sara Aase, a freelance writer and frequent contributor in Minneapolis, MN. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2011.02.017 500 Journal of the AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION 2011 by the American Dietetic Association period, e-only journals rose from just 5% to 37% of library collections. Pub- lishers increasingly have ipped their pricing so that print subscriptions are charged at a premium (often 15%) on top of a contract for electronic access instead of online being an add-on, it reports (6). In 2007, Elsevier counted e-only subscriptions as nearly 40% of its ScienceDirect subscription reve- nues (7). (ScienceDirect is one of a few different databases that carry the Journal.) Today e-only subscriptions are the vast majority, Hunter says. Reduced demand for print results in less shelf space and smaller print runs, until eventually printing is no longer economically viable. As online measurability improves, more adver- tisers will move online, too, further shrinking a valuable revenue stream for print (6). Because the conversion from a print-dominant to a digital-dominant publishing world is such a slow, pain- ful, and enormous change, its easy to fall victim to circular logicie, the decline of print in turn spells the end of magazines, journals, and books. This debate has gotten louder re- cently as many newspapers and mag- azines failed, and as the book indus- try faces drastically shrinking sales. Although we cant predict with cer- tainty how the forms of journals, magazines, and books might change with the available technology, we can be certain that the ideas transmitted through the written word will be as valuable as ever. The argument is a function of a new industry, Kobrin says. At some point well understand and live with the advantages and dis- advantages of both. THE QUESTION OF UTILITY: PRINT STILL RULES The Internet has added tremendous value to how we experience and inter- act with published content. More than ever before we can search for specic in- formation quickly and browse frommore diverse sources. There are myriad ways to connect, comment, rebut, and publish. We can even choose to watch a video or listen to a podcast, in addi- tion to, or instead of, reading text. But until very recently, the attempt to digitize books and periodicals has failed to replicate many of the quali- ties we value about print, such as the ability to ip through a publication, pore over lush, detailed illustrations, carry it anywhere with us, dog-ear pages, underline, and make nota- tions. The tactile nature of print is impor- tant to usbut why? One reason may be because the work of reading quickly causes cognitive overload. When we must learn or remember something, or when we are expected to respond to a written piecewith a review or comments, for examplewe take notes. On paper. By actively be- ing involved with the text, users can better memorize and understand it, write the authors of a 2009 study comparing paper-based and online annotations. By contrast, annotating on a computer-screen is an activity that competes with the reading itself, due to the lack of direct manipulation (8). The study noted that in absence of a quick, easy way to annotate arti- cles delivered via Web browser, users resorted to e-mailing themselves or creating notes in separate text docu- ments. TOPICS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST April 2011 Journal of the AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION 501 Digital annotation is fast changing, however. In the same study, users were asked to try a new online anno- tation tool, SpreadCrumbs, and found that it worked as well as traditional pen-on-paper notation for in-context note-taking. And in some ways better, in fact, as the notes could be shared with others, searched, indexed, or- dered, and rated. The Kindle (Ama- zon, Seattle, WA) and iPad let readers bookmark, highlight, and make notes on e-books, all of which are search- able and, through the Kindle, shar- able. The growing ability of digital de- vices to mimic the printed book and magazine experience will be a critical factor in increasing adoption of this new technology. Consider that, buck- ing conventional wisdom, printed magazines are still the most popular with 18- to 34-year-olds (9). Likewise, Journal readers with less than 5 years of dietetics experience were the most likely to rely on the Journal for dietetics-related information (10). Go- ing even younger, three quarters of college students surveyed said they still preferred a bound textbook to the digital versionnot only citing the ease of use, as noted above, compared to a digital book, but also the freedom from connection to Facebook and other online distractions. Granted, e- textbooks are still exotic, currently representing only 3% of textbook sales (11). HYBRID NATION: JOURNALS CAPITALIZE ON PRINTELECTRONIC FORMATS What about journals? Unlike books, each of which usually stands alone, the information in journals con- stantly evolves around the needs of a particular audience. Authors are fre- quently in dialog with each other across issueshence, readers expect to be able to move easily between them. Readers also are a more imme- diate and interactive audience, inu- encing and contributing to issue con- tents. Because of these demands, most magazine and journal publish- ers nd themselves, like the Journal, supporting a hybrid or multichan- nel modebuilding up an online presence that can more effectively en- gage those readers, for example, through blogs, podcasts, video, and discussion forums. At the same time, they still recog- nize the value in offering a printed journal, particularly to member sub- scribers and advertisers, since digital still cant beat print for visibility. Publishers rmly expect to hold this pattern for some time. According to a 2009 survey by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, 78% of publishers said their publication would not be in a digital-only form within 5 years (12). More recently, trade publication sources and statistics show the suc- cess of periodicals that offer both print and online issues: [J]ournals in print and online format were more stable than those published in print only or online only (13). As far as Im concerned, print is not going away for a long time for the Journal, prob- ably not within my lifetime, says Tony Trioli, senior publisher in charge of the Journal at Elsevier. Be- sides a strong member-based print subscription base, Trioli noted that Journal advertisers still overwhelm- ingly prefer print. In a still print-dominant world, those who have moved too swiftly and arbitrarily away from print have suf- fered. According to the ARL study, one society lost 25% of its members after print was abruptly dropped at the instigation of the board (6). The latest reader survey shows that for now, Journal subscribers are still happy to have both printed and elec- tronic versions. For example, 52% of Journal subscribers visit the Web site a little more than twice a month, and well over half of regular visitors rated the site highly for comprehensive- ness, speed, appearance of new infor- mation, ease of use, and application to their personal needs. But of those subscribers who hadnt visited the Journals Web site, 28% said they preferred print and 23% were not aware of the site at all (10). Publishers see great benet in ex- ploiting all channels, including print, for readers and advertisers. A 2009 study by BIGresearch found that commercial magazines rank rst of all media at inuencing consumers to start an online search, and that mag- azinesand their adsheld the un- divided attention of readers much longer than other media (14). Some of the features that enable users to nd and use digital contentfor ex- ample, searchare keeping print alive, says James Mathewson, search strategy expert for IBM and author of Audience, Relevance, and Search: Targeting Web Audiences with Relevant Con- tent. Another example is the place- ment of so-called QR codes on maga- zine pages. When captured by the camera on a mobile phone, they take the reader to a Web page, coupon, online video, pricing information, re- views, or other content (15). But all publishers need to be pushing ahead electronically. Companies need to develop systems to manage and serve print assets digitally, Mathewson says. But the assets themselves will continue to become less important as information consumers tend to prefer smaller, on-screen media to print. Publishers are trying to expand their online presence as they prepare for the coming shift, when the oppor- tunity cost of continuing to invest in print becomes too great (6). Accord- ing to the ARL study, most publish- ers appear to recognize the risk that, even in the scholarly world, readers will eventually stop using informa- tion that is not available online (6). Kobrin of Wharton Digital Press is such a reader. I look through aca- demic journals digitally, nd the arti- cles I want to read on the iPad, and those I really need to work through, I print out, he says. Its a lot better than having a 2-inchthick journal come to your ofce every 2 months. Publishers know they need to build utility for readers and new economic models for themselves in anticipation of an e-dominant world. We continue to encourage members to register their online accounts, Trioli says. Were not at 100%, and nowadays thats a head scratcher. Since regis- tering an account at the Journals Web site allows the reader to set up search alerts and save searches, we just assume theyll go to the site to do their research or read back issues, Trioli says. Im hopeful that will catch up. In January, the Journal rolled out a new Web site with improved drop- down menu navigation, browsing, and search capabilities. Supplements are broken out by themselves, so you wont have to go through the entire table of contents to nd them, Trioli says. And were really going to exploit the audio and video. For example, the Journals recently launched podcast series features conversations by ADA authors and other experts that go into TOPICS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST 502 April 2011 Volume 111 Number 4 depth behind the latest articles (www. adajournal.org/content/podcast). Other improvements include: subject collections featured on the homepage; a most-viewed articles box; Top 25 Hottest Articles (clicks through to SciVerse ScienceDirect database); and CiteAlert, whichautomatically noties authors by e-mail soonafter their work is referenced in a newly published ar- ticle on SciVerse ScienceDirect. TRADING OLD-WORLD PROBLEMS FOR NEW ONES What would make you give up print, or at least turn to it less often? Other upheavals exchanging the buggy for car, for example, or letters for e- mailoccur when the new technol- ogy becomes ubiquitous, affordable, and offers clear advantages. In other words, consumers have to adopt the new technology as a need. The tran- sition will depend a lot on howquickly most of us adopt mobile devices, Joss says. The International Telecommu- nication Union predicts that mobile Internet use will surpass that of desk- top computers within 5 years (16). In the meantime, most users dont ap- preciate innovation for innovations sake. We dont want to make a Kin- dle version of the Journal available just for the sake of doing it, Trioli says. It has to be something the membership really wants. We want to make sure weve looked at all of the pitfalls and benets rst. The Jour- nal of the American College of Cardi- ology is the rst Elsevier journal to publish an iPad edition, which went live in November. Depending on how that pilot goes, we may roll that out to other journals, Trioli says. Were looking at e-readers, iPad applica- tions, mobile applications. A big hurdle to the digital transi- tion for publishers is the cost of going digital while maintaining a print product. Our library customers at rst thought there would be an imme- diate end to print, and that the elec- tronic-only version would be a lot cheaper, Hunter says. But the pub- lisher took on the added costs of hav- ing to maintain two issues, and the added costs of maintaining and dis- tributing electronic versions along with print. And, of course, simply digitizing existing content does not a great experience make. It takes re- sources to create a Web site, applica- tion, or other content that comple- ments or replaces some aspects of the print product. The Journals reader survey shows, for example, that Web site users want to see additional orig- inal content, more of the latest indus- try and product information, videos, and more industry-related ads (10). For publishers, the business models for digitalwhat to do, how to do it, and how to pay for itare still very much in ux. Concerns about prestige, issue au- thenticity, and archiving are ongoing concerns in the transition to a digital- dominant publishing world, although Hunter says that the last two have mostly been resolved. Electronic jour- nals are now considered the version of record, Hunter says. They have links to the underlying data set, or more information, for example, on a partic- ular molecule, she says. If there was an error, the electronic version can be amended with that correction. Its not that the paper version is less com- plete, its that the databases have so many features you cant get in paper. Likewise, archiving, which used to be strictly the work of libraries, is now handled by consortia of libraries and publishers. Elsevier participates with at least two of the large preservation groups, such as the nonprot organi- zation Portico, to hedge its bets about changing technologies. It also main- tains its own digital archives. But the last question is still open. Do printed journals still command more prestige over their e-only counterparts? Who wants to be rst to stop print? Hunter says. We still dont know if we stop doing print whether that will stop authors from submitting manu- scripts to us. A POST-PRINT WORLD Once print fades to an on-demand or boutique offering, what might that mean for the format of journals? Once they slip their bindings, will the con- cept of a unied journal fade away, too? Since people continue to organize themselves by interest, particularly profession, it seems likely that they will continue to want publications to reect that need. In the same Pub- lishing Executive editorial, Sacks writes that the magazine must be paginated, edited, designed, periodic, permanent and date stamped, re- gardless of its format (3). If that is the case, magazines and journals will still need editorial staffs and publishers to ensure quality and distribution. What about brands? Will they still matter? The ARL article muses on this question: For many societies where the journal brand has played a key role in attracting members, there is the risk that their identity online will be diluted. Electronic journals are typically aggregated in a data- base of articles that is known by the name of the database. Since users of- ten link directly to articles without searching by journal name, publish- ers are discovering the importance of having the name of their society and/or journal on each page of every article, including backles as they are put online (6). Hunter says this issue has been a concern as Elsevier moves to more article-based syndication ser- vices. But overall, I honestly dont think brand will go away that quickly even in an article-based environ- ment, she says. Its one of the lter mechanisms people use still, particu- larly for society journals that are well respected. Kobrin agrees. I suspect the biggest challenge for the transi- tion is not the technology, but rather how we make readers aware of whats worthwhile, he says. COMING ATTRACTIONS: DIGITAL CATCHES UP Signicant obstacles still stand in the way of a digital-rst world. But when you consider how rapidly technology has changedparticularly the rapid adoption of mobile Internet devices, even in the midst of a recessiona paperless world no longer seems so elusive. Experts say we can expect some of the following features and perks: More personalization People will gravitate toward the ability to curate their own informa- tion in many ways, on many types of devices. For instance, an iPad appli- cation called Flipboard turns your Twitter and Facebook links, photos, and videos into a magazine format, complete with headlines and full-color text. Instead of scrolling, you simply ip through the information (17). TOPICS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST April 2011 Journal of the AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION 503 Easier collaboration Findings change fast, and experts all over the world want to nd others they can collaborate with, says Ahava Leibtag, principal of health care consulting company AHA Media Group. If you have digital copies of studies, you have multiple ways to organize it so that you can nd each other, by cross-referencing the sub- ject, author, country, publisher, jour- nal, author name, or area of re- search. More meaningful connections The more publishers are able to col- lect and use data provided by online clicks, the better they will become at producing content for their readers, Sacks says. When I open my iPad and read Wired Magazine, they know what pages I spend the most time on, he says. And for advertisers, digital data will give them the one-to-one re- lationship they want. Joss says her Web readership drives her editorial content choices. When a news brief gets a tremendous amount of hits, I do an article expanding on that topic, she says. With the ISP address, I can often tell who is reading it, so I get a sense of who is reading in real time. Thats tremendously excitingsome- thing that no publisher has ever had before. The Internet, as weve seen, also democratizes the ability to pub- lish, creating the potential for anyone to build an audience. Dietitians with various specialties can easily produce a niche product for that specialized audience, Sacks says. Innovation What we experience online, on handheld devices, and in print may be entirely different offerings from the same publication. For example, Ski- ing Interactive, which debuted in No- vember, is completely different from its print-based publication (18). Many commercial magazines have become more like blogs online. Perhaps jour- nals will go that route, tooable to deliver new content daily or hourly. More like . . . paper The more technology improves its ability to handle digital versions of print, the more attractive it will be- come as an alternative to paper. Pro- cessing speeds will be faster, digital devices will be rollable, foldable, and exible, with full-color screens that work with reective light, like paper, Sacks says. Ive held some of these pro- totypes in my hands, and they are com- ing in 2011. When people are able to save and annotate documents like pa- per, carry around their publications with them on one device, and relax, untethered, in a favorite easy chair, digital devices will replace most of their printed counterparts, Sacks says. PRINT WILL NEVER ABANDON US Of course, this map of a new, paper- less world is inevitably incomplete. At a recent Web 2.0 conference, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pointed to a map of todays online players and said, I think the biggest part of the map has got to be the uncharted territory. Right? Its not zero sum (19). The iPad and other mobile devices, ex- perts point out, are still in their in- fancy, as is the Web itself. Its early days yet, Joss says. Were all still feeling our way along. Picturing a world where paper be- comes like the vinyl recordstill trea- sured and available for a niche follow- ingleaves many issues unresolved. Cost of new technologies and services, for example. Bandwidth. Battery life. Recycling. Not to mention that intangi- ble something about print that nobody has been able to measurethe feel, the smell, the fact that the printed page requires no clicking, no e-mail check- ing, and wont suddenly disappear. 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