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What We Do
Since 1996, the media consulting firm of Digital Deliverance has provided publishers and broadcasters with strategic reviews and advice about how to profitably adapt to the remarkable changes that New Media have brought to them and their consumers.
Over the years, the firm's clients have include The New York Times, News Corporation, The Irish Times of Dublin, Dagbladet of Oslo, The Mail & Guardian of Johannesburg, Advance Publications, Presspoint, The Boston Herald, Critical Mention, MediaNews Group, New Century Network, the Media Development Loan Fund, PR Newswire, the National Cancer Institutes, and scores of other media or firms adapt to New Media.
The managing partner of Digital Deliverance is Vin Crosbie, an Adjunct Professor of Multimedia Photography & Design and the Senior Consultant on Curricula and Social and New Media at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication.
Digital Deliverance is incorporated as a limited liability company in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
Recent Speaking Engagements
Keynoted the fifth annual Personalize Media conference, held this year on June 21-22, 2011, Boulder, Colorado.
The speaker of the Singapore Press Holdings Foundation annual Media Lecture, Drama Centre, National Library, Singapore, July 14, 2010.
The co-chair and co-moderator of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication's Monetizing Online Business Conference, New York City, June 24-25, 2010.
The speaker of the Twelfth Annual Pearl A. and Albert E. Mall Annual Lecture, Binghamton University School of Education, Binghamton, New York, May 26, 2010.
A speaker and co-moderator at the Media Development Loan Fund Biennial Media Forum, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 14-15, 2010.
A speaker at the East Asian Institute for Media Management and Transformation Center's International Conference on Business of Emerging Media, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 21-22, 2010.
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E-Readers & Digital Editions Archive
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How Asahi Shimbun's 12 Mobile Phone News Sites Work
Posted on November 8, 2007 | No CommentsAsahi Shimbun's Atsushi Sato explains how his company's 12 sites for mobile phone users work and earn money. -
Printed Newspaper Executives Visions of the Future
Posted on September 28, 2005 | No CommentsI frequently write about newspapers’ experience with the new medium because theirs has been the longest experience. The New York Times launched the world’s first online edition in 1974 with LexisNexis, followed by many magazines and other newspapers on that professional online service or competitors such as Dialog. Though I forget which printed periodical launched the first online edition aimed... -
A Look at U.K. Newspapers Using Digital Editions
Posted on July 28, 2005 | No CommentsAn overview of U.K. Newspapers that use digital editions -
Top 10 Magazine Digital Editions
Posted on May 11, 2005 | 1 CommentMore than 100 U.S. magazines, twice the number from a year ago, now count significant numbers of digital editions among their circulation figures, according to the auditing firm of BPA Worldwide. Here are the top ten as of December 2004: eWeek 65,000 among 400,100 circulations (16.2 percent) Computer Weekly 40,065 among 139,817 (28.7%) Microsoft Certified Professional 39,092 among 119,092 (32.8%)... -
The Digital Edition Dirigibles
Posted on March 9, 2005 | No CommentsAt the highest inhabitable level of the Empire State Building in New York City is something redolent of the University of Missouri’s new EmPRINT digital edition project. When the Empire State Building was designed in the late 1920s, architects gave its top floor a function that nowadays makes sense only in retrospect of their knowledge of what was then the... -
Hitachi to Sell Unrollable E-Paper in 2006
Posted on December 15, 2004 | 1 CommentHitachi plans to begin selling a color-capable electronic paper in 2006. Rather than use organic light-emitting (OLED) diodes, the way that Philips’ e-paper does, Hitachi’s device will use a liquid crystal displays (LCD) 3-centimeters thick and equipped with a special panel that has doubles the noral light reflectivity of LCDs. Hitachi showed a 7-inch prototype, said the device is capable... -
OK, So What Will Be A Good Use of RSS for News Publishers?
Posted on December 14, 2004 | 5 Comments[UPDATE: Some blogs which have linked to this item call it my vision of the newspaper of 2010. Calling it that is inaccurate. I believe that e-paper devices will be in common use by 2010 and that consumers will use these device for reading books, magazines, business reports, grocery lists, homework, etc. But whether or not the newspapers industry will... -
Garcia Predicts Conversion of American Broadsheets to Tabloid
Posted on November 15, 2004 | No CommentsMore than a year ago, we wrote about Mario Garcia, a world renown expert on newspaper design, predicting that the majority of the world’s newspapers would became tabloid-sized within his lifetime. Garcia a few years earlier had predicted that a large number of American papers would switch to the smaller format by 2020. This weekend, Garcia updated and accelerated his... -
Mobile and Digital Edition Ideas from 'Beyond the Printed Word'
Posted on November 4, 2004 | 1 CommentThe annual IFRA/WAN/FIPP Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference was held in Prague yesterday and today. A summary of the presentations is available from WAN and there is an interesting conference moblog. Here from the conference (my thanks to the IFRA and WAN summaries) are some interesting ideas about mobile and digital editions: -
Woeful Circulation for Just Retailed Digital Edition of Newspapers
Posted on August 19, 2004 | No CommentsThe American Press Institute’s Cyberjournalist.net picked up our item last week about the woeful circulation of newspaper digital editions. Cyberjournalist’s lead sentence, although well-intentioned, made a conclusion that we didn’t: “In case there was any doubt that digital editions of newspapers were a horrible experience and destined to failure,….” It’s not quite a simple as all that. Retailed digital editions... -
Woeful Circulations for Digital Editions
Posted on August 12, 2004 | 5 CommentsSEE AN UPDATE TO THIS POSTING Here are a few circulation figures for some U.S. newspapers’ digital editions: USA Today – 900 self-reported (0.05 percent of the total weekday print circulation of 2,154,539). The New York Times – 3,172 ABC-audited (0.28 percent of 1,118,565). The Washington Post – 424 ABC (0.06 percent of 732,904). Boston Globe – 321 self-reported (0.03... -
The Woes of the Christian Science Monitor
Posted on June 9, 2004 | No CommentsLast week, the Christian Science Monitor (an excellent, objective, and non-religious newspaper) published a story admitting what’s long been no secret within the American newspaper industry: it’s parent operation, the Christian Science Publishing Society (CSPS), which also publish the Christian Science Sentinel, Christian Science Journal, and Christian Science Quarterly, is US$30 million in the hole, despite cutting 150 of its... -
Newsstand, Inc., Unveils Its Browser-Based Digital Edition Tool
Posted on June 8, 2004 | No CommentsMany corporations and companies prohibit employees from installing outside software on company computers. That prohibition has long been a problem for digital editions that require users to install a such application such Newsstand, Inc., or Zinio. Newsstand responded today with iBrowse, its version of browser-based digital editions that don’t require installing such software. “iBrowse is especially appealing for controlled circulation... -
More Prototypes of Rollable E-Paper
Posted on June 8, 2004 | 2 CommentsI keep telling publishers that electronic paper isn’t science fiction but science fact, technologiy that will go into commercial production this decade. I’m particular a fan of the rollable versions. For example, the picture above is of Polymer Vision B&W prototype demonstrated on May 27th at the International Society for Information Display’s trade show in Seattle. (High resolution photos of... -
Slate's Jack Shafer on Digital Editions
Posted on May 6, 2004 | No CommentsJack Shafer of Slate.com has a solid analysis of the digital editions produced by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and other American newspapers. His conclusion is that “these electronic editions [are] as comfortable as a fat man trapped in an iron suit designed by a boa constrictor.” I’ve long lamented (here’s a recent example) how printed...
