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The baffling stall of tablet magazine evolution

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 magazine requires a complete

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digital editions

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 this for a long

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iPad

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 course optimistic about the

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B2B

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 and launching digital editions.

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apps

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 even more neglected within

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bundling

Do digital editions enhance print?

Don Brown on tablet magazine editions: Where publishers are seeing interesting stats is with ‘bundled’ subscriptions. What seems to be happening is that the digital version deepens these readers’ relationship with their title. Rather than just reading the magazine in the same way, at

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Android

Is it worth publishing to Google Magazines yet?

Jasper Jackson: But is Google’s content store anywhere near being a credible competitor to Apple’s Newsstand, which has had a year headstart and can tap into Apple’s customer base of more than 400 million? Spoiler: The answer’s “no”. It’s

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iPad

Push button Newsstand publishing?

Is Newsstand publishing about to become as easy as blogging? Publishing to a Newsstand app looks a lot like publishing a blog post, a matter of filling in fields — but instead of hitting “Publish” and winding up at a URL, you pop up ready

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adobe DPS

Magazines on tablets: publishers' painful lessons

This year was meant to be the year where I was deep in the production of tablet editions of various B2B mags. Life didn’t work out that way, but when I was offered the chance to attend the Adobe Digital Publishing Summit this

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elections

Saturday morning coffee reading - 25th August 2012

Five things that are worth reading over your morning coffee… The shop window is the only place to be in the digital high street– a nice summation of the problems with Apple’s Newsstand, based on David Hepworth’s experience with the ill-fated The

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content strategy

Five commuting reads for content types

Read and enjoy: Are digital editions attracting new readers? What is disruption and how can it be harnessed? The Telegraph‘s new mobile app strategy Antony contrasts ersatz insights and complex networks The working lives of the tech livebloggers…

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business models

#newsrw - multiplatform strategies

Ron Diorio, VP of business development & innovation director, Economist Media Group What is a platform? asked Ron, rattling through a list of OSes, apps and social networks, to a mixed response from the audience – there was no clear agreement as to what a

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apps

#newsrw - Making money from content

Alex Watson, head of app development, Dennis Apple’s Newsstand is a retail environment. Prior to it, you were just another app in the App Store. It is more of a retail shopping experience than we’re used to with the rest of the

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iPad

The Million Dollar Newsstand?

![Newsstand on an iPad](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/01/newsstand.png?resize=520%2C426)Robert Andrews, [writing for Paid Content](http://paidcontent.org/article/419-futures-newsstand-tranformation-75000-new-subscribers):> UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within

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