As Content & Technology Converge, Publishers Feel the Squeeze

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Is there a difference between a content company and a technology company? The answer to that question is becoming increasingly difficult to answer. In the recent past, publishers were by and large content companies. Today, with the blending of multiple content distribution formats, magazine media companies have forged new business alliances and discovered new types of competitors, blurring the lines between magazine companies and technology companies.

David Carey recently noted that, “Hearst is a content company, operating with a platform mentality…functioning as one global entity as far as content sharing.”

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