This Week In The Death of Publishing & The Web

FAST COMPANY writes:

Apple, like Facebook, has entered into a standoff with the publishing industry and the open, if for-profit, web. And it’s being done under the aegis of design: choose a better reading experience on our curated platform, they offer, or let us clean up that pesky advertising on the open web.

Source: Apple Saves Publishing… For Itself

N.B. This is not the first time this conversation has arisen, nor will it be the last. Off the top of my head, see also:

The Death of the Open Web, New York Times 2010
The Web Is Dead, Wired 2010
The Web Is Dead, Long Live The Internet, Wired 2010
Orbital Content A List Apart 2011
Readability 2.0 is Disruptive Two Ways, zeldman.com 2011
This Is A Website, zeldman.com 2013
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium? zeldman.com 2015
The Web Is Not Poor Man’s Native, in progress 2015

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