Bøker av Robin Bromby

From the broadcast of the first news bulletin on radio in 1920, daily newspapers have been under pressure from a succession of challenges, ranging from television to suburban weeklies until - finally - the internet. Along the way the industry was beset by industrial disputes, reluctance to embrace the latest technologies, crippling rises in costs of newsprint and labour, traffic gridlock that hampered city newspaper deliveries. By the time it became possible to get your news on a computer, and then on other mobile devices, the newspaper industry was passed its best. Then many papers made the near fatal decision to give away their news for free online, a strategy that was realised too late to be a dreadful mistake. Newspapers: A Century of Decline charts this century-long saga.

Railways: Their Life & Times sets out to be an evocation of the world of railways over more than a century - the achievements and the failures, the impressive and the quirky, the big picture and the minutiae.Steam in the railway age; the evolution of different gauges; the role of railways in two world wars; the battles to retain passenger business; the saga of railways in Russia; dangers on the rails; the enemies and critics of railways - these are among the subjects in this wide-ranging book. Plus profiles of 11 national rail systems, and all interspersed with railroad miscellany and fact panels from station densities to concession fares on Italian trains to the spread of electrification.The author, Robin Bromby, has been writing and publishing railway books for 40 years and has been a founder of two rail magazines.