An independent publication covering art, history, literature, visual storytelling, and the tools and decisions behind serious independent publishing.
For a few years the headless CMS was the grown-up choice for a serious publisher. Keep the words and images in one structured store. Send them out by API to the website, the app, the newsletter, the partner feed. Let the front end change every season while the archive stays put. …
An ISBN looks like a technical detail, thirteen digits above a barcode on the back cover. For an independent publisher it’s a business decision. Whose …
Thierry Ehrmann, the founder of Artprice, has entered the argument over AI and writing with a book and a claim about authorship. In a statement issued …
When The Godfather opened on March 24, 1972, it looked like a film about old men. Patriarchs, consiglieri, capos who had spent decades learning whom …
In Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), small details often say more than long conversations. A glance, a closed door, an unfinished sentence, …
Short answer: yes. Automattic still employs thousands of people, still owns WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Pocket Casts and Beeper, and still …
I’m on the side of privacy. I think data brokers are a menace, and when Ireland fined Meta €1.2 billion in 2023 I didn’t lose a minute’s sleep. If …
Everything in this picture came out of the same hill. The vines grow in a thin skin of clay over limestone, the houses are cut from that limestone, …
The studio waited two weeks to say anything. Kusama died on August 14 in a Tokyo hospital, and the announcement came on the 27th, by which point the …
Pink News has proposed cutting up to eleven staff, its second round of redundancies this year, and the stated reason is a change in how the platform …
