Interesting piece from a couple of months ago, on the faltering pace of change in tablet magazines. It makes a good case for what’s gone wrong – and an even more compelling one for some missed opportunities: A successful tablet…
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The digimag bloat problem
While I’m quoting Tweets: The people have spoken. And they have said: stop delivering bloated-for-no-reason payloads to my iPad each month. pic.twitter.com/O0E3BZA24F— MG Siegler (@parislemon) September 14, 2014 Hard to disagree. And people have been saying…
iPad Magazines: a predictable publisher road-crash
David Jacobs of 29th Street Publishing talking about magazine apps: What we have learned is that the replica will never be successful. Consumers have soundly rejected them: digital subscriptions make up only 3% of total subscriptions. But I am of…
Are the old B2B publishers leaving the digital edition market wide open?
When this morning’s TheMediaBriefing B2B e-mail (written by one of my ex-students, Henry Taylor…) hit my in-box, I learnt of this article by DB Hebbard: The B2B magazine industry still lags far behind consumer when it comes to developing…
Tablets: there's no easy answer for publishers
This piece tallies with what I’m hearing about magazine apps on tablets right now: Publishers must break free of the Newsstand and InDesign/PDF trap and invest in their publications as stand-alone, real, honest-to-God apps – or find their titles…