Predictions for 2010

It’s the time of year for publishers and industry experts to make predictions for the year ahead — I’ve seen four such posts in the last few days alone, and started compiling the table below to aggregate their predictions for my own reference.

It’s interesting at this stage to see consensus on relatively few of these points. I’ve paraphrased many of the predictions where different phrasing was thematically similar, hopefully without losing any of the intended meaning. As and when I see other predictions for 2010, I’ll add them to the table — and please let me know if you’re the author of such a piece so I can include it (or shout at me if I’ve played fast and loose with your existing predictions).

Updated 4 January 9.30pm: Thanks very much indeed to Ted Treanor for getting in touch with his own set of predictions, now added to the table.

Updated 4 January 10.00pm: And no sooner had I posted the last update than Michael Cairns’s predictions appeared on Google Reader . . .

Updated 5 January 12.00pm: Thanks to Kassia Krozser for sending me a link to her predictions. Unfortunately, the table has now grown too unwieldy for my Wordpress template, so I’ve had to spin it off into a separate page, linked to below. I’ll prettify this when I have the chance — the last time I styled an HTML table was back when they were commonly used for layout, so I’ll have to do some CSS work.

I’ve also received links to longer term predictions — and I’ll work out how best to present these alongside the 2010 predictions.

Aggregated Predictions for Publishing in 2010