Bo Sacks Speaks Out: Big Brother, AI, and the Magazine Industry’s Blind Spot
The surveillance we are creating does not emerge from fear. It emerges from trust. That difference changes everything, and it makes the system far har...
BoSacks Speaks Out: Ads, AI, and Why Publishers Should Be Paying Attention
Most coverage frames this as an ethics story. It is not. This is a business model story. And for publishers, it is a competitive threat disguised as a...
BoSacks Speaks Out: How Alden Global Capital Turned Local Journalism into a Liquidation Strategy
Alden’s model is brutally consistent. It buys distressed newspapers, slashes newsroom staffing, sells off real estate and assets, centralizes operatio...
BoSacks Speaks Out: Presidents Day, Pamphlets, and the Original Publisher Playbook
The American story wasn’t just political. It was publishing‑powered. Because before they were Founding Fathers, they were publishers
BoSacks Speaks Out: Romance Isn’t Dying. Harlequin Just Got Dumped.
Harlequin Historical will cease publication in fall 2027. According to the article, new submissions are no longer being accepted. Print and digital di...
BoSacks Speaks Out: In the Age of Answers, Are You the Source or Just the Scrap?
AI doesn’t privilege text. It ingests text, audio, video, and images with equal enthusiasm. Your chart isn’t decoration anymore, it’s source material....
BoSacks Speaks Out: The death of the mass market paperback.
The death of the mass market paperback is the book industry’s version of what happened to the supermarket magazine rack. Same distribution system. Sam...
BoSacks Speaks Out: The Magazine Reading Pipeline Is Cracking
Let’s stop pretending reading is some quaint pastime, like churning butter or dialing a rotary phone. Reading is the infrastructure of the magazine in...
BoSacks Speaks Out: Two Almanacs, Two Legacies, and One Hell of a Plot Twist
For more than two centuries, two iconic American publications have sat on kitchen tables, workshop benches, barn shelves, and bedside stands: The Old...
BoSacks Speaks Out: Is the UK Leading Publishing, or Just Acting Like a Grown‑Up?
until you realize it’s actually a diagnostic scan of our entire industry: “Based on your recent coverage, UK publishers seem like the pioneers. What’...
