paidContent:UK: Daily Mail: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact This Year
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 12:05
"The Association of Online Publishers … has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010."
VentureBeat: An ‘unanswerable’ question: Can the iPad save magazines?
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 11:58
How is this question "unanswerable"? I can think of a perfectly good one-word answer. (It's the one you always give when a headline ends in a question mark.)
AllthingsD: NPR Creating New App and Web Site for Apple iPad
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 16:20
Peter Kafka: "if all goes as planned, iPad users who want to listen to NPR programming will have a couple choices next month. They can: Download a free iPad-optimized version of the broadcaster’s popular (two million downloads) iPhone app. Or Use the iPad’s browser to visit NPR.org, which will detect that it’s being viewed with Apple’s device and serve up a custom-built site."
Lost Remote: SXSW: The iPad is better than print
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 08:22
"How different is the production of content for the print vs. online? He said Wired spends months, sometimes years, working on custom fonts to make reading of their content easier. thier custom typeface has 10,000 kerning pairs vs. 500 for a regular font. Conde Nast, Wired’s parent company, has 400 designers and 1,100 editors and its magazines reach 62 million Americans (about 1 in 3). It takes 24 days for each piece of magazine content to go from birth to publish at Wired. The iPad and similar devices will allow all that design intelligence to become interactive and digital."
News after Newspapers: iPad strategies for publishers
Monday, 8 March 2010, 19:15
"In considering their strategies for iPad, publishers should assume: Mobile will be everywhere. … All forms of media consumption will increasingly shift to mobile devices … Marketing budgets will increasingly shift to mobile …. Consumers will respond strongly to mobile pitches …. The [unbundling] genie will not go back in the bottle … "
Techcrunch: Marc Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”
Monday, 8 March 2010, 18:45
Marc Andreessen: "All the new companies are not spending a nanosecond on the iPad or thinking of ways to charge for content. The older companies, that is all they are thinking about."
Econsultancy: Five reasons publishers are getting ahead of themselves with the iPad
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 10:57
"[W]hile it's great to see traditional publishers taking some initiative in a burgeoning digital space, there are more than a few reasons to think that many of them are jumping the gun at the chance to charge for content on a new device."
Mediactive: Why Journalism Organizations Should Reconsider Their Crush on Apple’s iPad
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 22:11
Dan Gillmor: "Ultimately, I believe, the most important issue is whether news organizations should get in bed with a company that makes unilateral and non-transparent decisions like the ones Apple has been making about content in all kinds of ways. I say they should think hard about it, and answer either in the negative or insist on iron-clad contracts with Apple that prohibit the hardware company from any kind of interference with the journalism, ever."
One Man and His Blog: The Obligatory iPad for Publishers Post
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 22:49
Adam Tinworth, exactly right: "Here's what we should do: Look at this form factor …. Create something new, under our existing brands, for our existing markets, that feels natural and inherent to the device. … Here's what will probably happen: companies will seize on the magazine-like form factor and the 'book replication' iBooks interface to build what are, in effect, straight replications of print titles on the platform, with the sort of "interactive" extra elements that made CD-ROMs such a compelling experience back in the 90s (please note: that was sarcasm)."
Macworld: Condé Nast plans iPad versions of GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired magazines
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 09:10
"Publisher Condé Nast is planning Apple iPad versions of popular titles including GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired magazines. "We look at (iTunes) as a digital newsstand," said Sarah Chubb, president of CondéNet."
Nieman Journalism Lab: What should news apps on the iPad look like? John-Henry Barac on space & touch in digital news design
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 09:08
The designer of the Guardian's iPhone app on designing news for touch-screen tablets…
Adobe Digital Publishing: Introducing a New Digital Magazine Experience
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 19:35
Another tablet consumer magazine prototype: "Last Friday, Adobe and Condé Nast unveiled a new digital magazine experience based on WIRED magazine at the TED conference in Long Beach, California. Built on Adobe AIR and developed with Condé Nast, the tablet prototype we showed during the TED 'Play' session illustrates the possibilities for magazine publishers to reach readers in new ways."
FT.com: Publishers fear the bite of Apple’s revenue model
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 11:16
"Ideally, publishers hope Apple's periodicals store will operate as seamlessly as iTunes does for music, films and television shows by offering simple, one-click purchases. But Apple's history of sharing limited consumer information with partners beyond sales volume data could prove a "deal breaker" for publishers …"
The Daily Beast: How the iPad Could Kill Newspapers
Sunday, 14 February 2010, 21:42
Richard J. Tofel: "…it has been clear, for perhaps three to five years, that any sudden conversion of all print readers to web readers, while greatly reducing costs, would reduce revenues even more, deepening losses at unprofitable papers and throwing those that remain profitable into losses—losses that would likely be impossible to reverse except through huge further expense cuts, especially in newsrooms. … Unfortunately, nothing about the iPad, as wonderful as it looks and feels, holds out the promise of avoiding this problem."
