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We often get asked the question "Why should we make our magazine digital?" by membership organisations.

That is just what we aimed to address in our talk at the Memberwise conference yesterday, entitled 'Reinventing your membership magazine for the digital age'.

On Monday September 1st, we were lucky enough to win a pair of tickets to an exclusive private viewing of the Digital Revolution exhibition at the Barbican (courtesy of Time Out).

Lori Colbeck's innovative idea to get readers involved in the writing process has me thinking about the future of digital publishing, its audience and innovation.

Colbeck will be launching www.booksfromscratch.com, a site that will allow authors to contribute chapters to a story, which site visitors will then vote on to dictate the narrative of the final book.

As digital publishing continues to grow and monopolise print, why are traditional processes becoming fashionable again?

We've all seen the loop before, maybe even been part of it. After the success of a new technology the preceding tech becomes fashionable again. This is happening right now with typewriters and touch screens.