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The baffling stall of tablet magazine evolution Paid Members Public
Interesting piece from a couple of months ago, on the faltering pace of change in tablet magazines [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/09/why-your-tablet-magazine-isnt-getting-any-better/] . It makes a good case for what’s gone wrong – and an even more compelling one for some missed opportunities: > A successful tablet magazine
The digimag bloat problem Paid Members Public
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 [http://t.co/O0E3BZA24F]— MG Siegler (@parislemon) September 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/parislemon/status/511273684502605824] Hard to disagree. And people have been
iPad Magazines: a predictable publisher road-crash Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/newsstand-again-3682.html] David Jacobs of 29th Street Publishing [http://www.29.io] 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
Are the old B2B publishers leaving the digital edition market wide open? Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/ios7-newsstand-screenie-3443.html] When this morning’s TheMediaBriefing B2B e-mail [http://briefing-media.msgfocus.com/q/1mfce7ntidXCHtCpQJC3/wv] (written by one of my ex-students, Henry Taylor…) hit my in-box, I learnt of this article by DB Hebbard [http://www.talkingnewmedia.com/2014/01/
Tablets: there's no easy answer for publishers Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/12/newsstand-7.jpg] This piece tallies with what I’m hearing about magazine apps on tablets [http://gigaom.com/2013/12/15/the-tablet-magazine-ship-is-sinking-fast/] right now: > Publishers must break free of the Newsstand and InDesign/PDF trap and invest in
Do digital editions enhance print? Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/image.jpg] Don Brown on tablet magazine editions [http://donbrownsblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/will-digital-save-print/]: > Where publishers are seeing interesting stats is with ‘bundled’ subscriptions. What seems to be happening is that the digital version deepens these
Is it worth publishing to Google Magazines yet? Paid Members Public
Jasper Jackson [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/google-magazines-is-it-a-credible-competitor-to-newsstand] : > 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’
Push button Newsstand publishing? Paid Members Public
Is Newsstand publishing about to become as easy as blogging [http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/12/29th-street-publishing-wants-to-make-selling-magazines-for-ipads-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
