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Its been quite some time since I reviewed Zite, the popular iPad digital personal magazine, and now its available as an iPhone or iPod app. As usual, I was skeptical if the magazine could make a transition to smaller format but the now-CNN-owned company developed a beautiful app that Zite fans will love. Lately, Zite [...]
Barnes & Noble Inc. is removing from its consumer and college bookstores 100 graphic novels published by Time Warner Inc.’s DC Entertainment unit in a move that underscores the increasing tensions between book publishers and retailers over exclusive content. Barnes & Noble’s move follows the Sept. 29 disclosure by DC Entertainment that it struck an [...]
Flipboard and Condé Nast bring brand advertising to the popular social magazine for iPad with Web content from The New Yorker, Wired and Bon Appétit, with additional titles coming to Flipboard throughout 2011. American Express will be first to launch its campaign starting today in The New Yorker with Lexus following suit in October in [...]
One of the largest gripes with developers, publishers and designers concerning the Apple’s App Store is the 30% cut Apple demands from all app and in-app purchases. Is it fair? Is it inhibiting innovation? Is it evil? First, for all of you who are unfamiliar with the situation. Basically, every app you purchase, Apple gets [...]
Wow, according to AAP Publishers’ March 2011 Sales Report, print books show growth while e-books continue climbing, according to Both print and digital formats of books enjoyed revenue gains in March 2011 vs last year according to the monthly net sales report of the Association of American Publishers, the industry’s national trade association. In the [...]
Powerful continuing growth of books on digital platforms–both e-Books and Downloaded Audiobooks–are highlights of the February 2011 sales report of the Association of American Publishers, which is being released today. The report, produced by the trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry, tracks monthly and year-to-date publishers’ net sales revenue in all categories of [...]
As of last Wednesday, Flipboard have some serious competition: a free app called Zite that is constantly learning what you like to read on the iPad and creating a magazine finely tailored to your needs. How often do you actually read Flipboard? Does Flipboard really help you discover content that got buried in your Twitter [...]
RSVP Publications, a direct marketing and direct mail company specializing in reaching affluent homeowners, has breathed new life into direct mail by adding quick response (QR) codes to its direct mail card packs for use with smart phones. “Who says direct mail is dead? We’ve changed all the rules with our ‘Talking Postcards,’” said Larry [...]
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite will support both Apple App Store Subscriptions and Google One Pass for magazine and newspaper publishers. Currently available as pre-release technology, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is already being used by leading global publishers to create and distribute their iconic titles on tablet devices. With 130 Adobe [...]
Many publishers are simply dazed and confused when it comes to employing mobile and tablet based versions of their publications. The problem is, they have to invest in expensive app development and follow rules dictated by Apple and Google, but OnSwipe may be the dark knight rising. Apple also requires all app developers to share [...]
While reading this month’s Bon Appétit magazine, I spotted this ad that pictured Michael Phelps and the above copy. The ad seems to be widespread as I have also seen it in People and Entertainment magazines. The leaders of five major magazine companies—Charles H. Townsend, Condé Nast; Cathie Black, Hearst Magazines; Jack Griffin, Meredith Corporation; [...]
Today, Apple announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service that Apple recently launched with News Corp.’s “The Daily” app. Here is the rest of Apple’s press release Subscriptions purchased from within [...]
In a step back towards the old Digg, Digg Product manager Mike Cieri just sent out an email to partner publishers stating the intent to remove the RSS submitted stories feature. For those of you that remember, the RSS submission feature was how stories from the Reddit publisher account on Digg were sent to the [...]
Sony’s CEO Michael Ephraim is quoted by The Age as saying, “Publishers are being held to ransom by Apple and they are looking for other delivery systems, and we are waiting to see what the next three to five years will hold.” Sony has signaled it may withdraw its artists from Apple’s iTunes store and [...]
NEW YORK—Feb. 11, 2011—Time Inc. and Sports Illustrated announced the introduction of new “All Access” digital subscription plans that will deliver the iconic print magazine to consumers at all touch points (or on all platforms), beginning today with Android tablets and smartphones, as well as on the Web. This is the first of Time Inc.’s [...]
Apple’s Steve Jobs will appear onstage alongside media mogul and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in San Francisco on January 19 to unveil the new tablet-only newspaper The Daily for iPad. First reported by Yahoo’s The Cutline, Jobs and Murdoch will share the stage at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. While it is [...]
