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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A collection of 14 posts
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…
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…
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’…
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,…