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Be it print or digital publishing, you're still only as good as your last story...

When I was a daily newspaper reporter, nothing was truer than the cliché ‘you are only as good as your last story’. In the newsroom of The Daily Mail, every reporter’s stock rose and fell on a daily basis depending on whom they had scooped, or been scooped by

At The London Book Fair this week I had the feeling that the world is entering a digital publishing downturn.

Digital publishing takes a new turn as Readly, a £10-a-month service which lets users read magazines on an 'all you can read' basis, has opened its doors in the UK.

Fourteen consumer publishers including IPC and Haymarket have put their titles on the site, which offers a two-week free trial. Users can register up to five devices on iOS, Android, Kindle and Windows.

The Guardian is expected to report a 25% rise in digital publishing revenues from £55m to almost £70m in the year to the end of March 2014.

Figures released by Deloitte and the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) show that digital advertising revenues for UK publishers were up by 18% in the 12 months up to December 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. This represents "the highest year-on-year growth since the revenues were first tracked in 2008."

A night of awards and digital publishing. These are our thoughts on PPA's New Talent award.

What does this years PPA New Talent Awards tell us about new talent within digital publishing?
Not much unless you can work out why it is all concentrated to a handful of media companies.
To name a few: Dennis, Future, Immediate Media, IPC and ShortList.