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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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Guardian and Observer Digital Editions
Posted on January 7, 2004 | No CommentsWe agree with the favorable review by Kieren McCathy in The Register of the beta versions from The Guardian and The Observer of London. A consumer doesn’t first need to download any software. Each page of the newspaper appears on the screen in its original printed colors and format. Clicking your mouse on a story opens a popup box with... -
Trial Offer of USA TODAY Digital Editions for Travelers
Posted on January 7, 2004 | No CommentsUSA TODAY joins The New York Times as the two newspapers whose digital editions are being offered free to travelers in more than 700 American hotels, airports, and restaurants. -
David Shaw on Digital Editions
Posted on December 29, 2003 | No CommentsLos Angeles Times media critic David Shaw reviews digital editions and likes what he sees. He prefers them over reading newspapers’ Web sites. I miss the serendipity of coming unexpectedly upon an interesting story I would never have thought to look for. Most of all, I miss the context -
Wayport to Offer Free Digital Editions of NYT in 800 U.S. Locations
Posted on December 1, 2003 | No CommentsWayport, a company that provides Wi-Fi wireless and wired Internet access in hotels, airports and McDonald’s restaurants, will offer free downloads of The New York Times‘ digital editions. Wayport provides Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless and broadband wired Internet access in 680 U.S. hotels (including those of the Four Seasons, Loews, Wyndham, Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton, Doubletree and Embassy Suites); Wi-Fi in the... -
True 'Convergence'
Posted on November 21, 2003 | No CommentsFor several years, we’ve been advocating that ‘convergence’ isn’t media companies combining their print and broadcast newsrooms — that’s multimedia, not convergence. True convergence is the convergence of print and of online into a single product. Not multiple products (newsprint, Web, broadcast, etc.), but a single product output. This is happening. The two vector lines of convergence respectively began in... -
How The ABC Counts Weekly Online as Daily in Print
Posted on November 7, 2003 | No CommentsShould a newspaper be allowed to include its Web site’s paying subscribers among its count of print circulation? In a remarkably wimpy decision earlier this week, the U.S. Audit Bureau of Circulation has allowed The Wall Street Journal to do exactly that. The ABC let the WSJ add 290,412 paying subscribers of WSJ.com to its count of 1,800,650 print subscribers.... -
Books.com Goes Private
Posted on November 7, 2003 | No CommentsBarnes & Noble today announced plans to pay US$115 million for the 25 percent of BarnesAndNoble.com that it doesn’t already own and to turn that publicly held online operation into a private subsidiary. That news might be perceived due to failures in BN.com’s online sales, e-books or printing on-demand technologies, but the real answer is behind the scenes. BN.com was... -
How to Count Clients
Posted on October 21, 2003 | 1 CommentAs we earlier this month mentioned, a U.S. television network has asked us to review for accuracy some of the facts it plans to report in a forthcoming program on digital newspaper editions. One problem the producer is having is that one of the vendors says that it has 152 newspapers as digital edition clients, but the vendor won’t disclose... -
Give the Gift That Keeps On Downloading
Posted on October 17, 2003 | No CommentsWe received an e-mailed press release from Newsstand.com this morning, suggesting that, “When searching for the perfect gift for friends, family and business associates this holiday season, NewsStand Inc. suggests purchasing digital edition subscriptions of newspapers and magazines.” That’s not a bad idea, although your friends, family, and business associates best have broadband Internet connections. -
Newsstand.com Offer New Scientist
Posted on October 13, 2003 | No CommentsNewsstand.com has begun distributing a digital edition of New Scientist magazines. That’s a bit of a coup for two reasons. “This is a great leap forward for New Scientist. It will bring the magazine to a whole new audience, many of whom wouldn’t have access to the print copy,” said Natasha Ward, publisher of New Scientist. “I think it’s quite... -
PBS to Broadcast Story About Digital Editions
Posted on October 10, 2003 | No CommentsThe Public Broadcasting Corporation‘s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, is preparing a story about newspapers’ digital editions, mainly those retailed through Newsstand.com or Olive Software. This US news program, known for its thoughtful and in-depth reporting, has been working on this story for a few months. We’ve been pleased to help them with it. Its producers don’t yet have a... -
Yomiuri Shimbun Begins Digital Edition
Posted on September 18, 2003 | No CommentsYomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest circulation daily newspaper (weekday: 14,242,000 copies) has begun wholesaling a digital edition. According to Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association) Yomiuri will sends its PDF files to NewspaperDirect of Canada and Konica Business Machines of Tokyo, who will partner to printout copies that they will distribute to hotels, bookstores, newsstands, and other... -
Overreacting Against eBooks
Posted on September 17, 2003 | 1 CommentNavigating in New Media is much like flying an airplane. Unless you’re experienced with these media’s vagarities and business cycles, you tend to overreact and make problems worse. Porpoising is what pilots call those overreactions, which aim too high or too low, rather than a steady course. When the Internet Bubble burst, too many fickle executives of media corporates overreacted... -
The Future of Printing
Posted on September 9, 2003 | 1 CommentElectronic paper will begin to steal market share from print as soon as 3 years from now, predicted Michael Kleper, the Paul and Louis Miller Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology‘s School of Print Media. Moreover, within three years, printers won’t be printing only paper but will also be lithographically printing electronic displays on various materials (paper, plastic,... -
Barnes & Noble Closes its eBooks
Posted on September 9, 2003 | No CommentsBarnes & Noble.com today announced that, effective immediately, it will no longer sell electronic books. It told its customers that they have 90 days to download any eBooks that they’ve already purchased but not yet downloaded. “After December 9, 2003, eBook titles that have not been downloaded to the appropriate readers will no longer be accessible,” B&N.com e-mailed its customers...