Folio: The Digital Newsstand: How Magazines Will Be Sold in the Tablet Age
Monday, 3 May 2010, 16:37
"From platforms created by digital edition vendors such as Zinio and Nxtbook, to newsstands directly related to devices created by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, publishers have multiple opportunities to position themselves in this new landscape."
Press Gazette: Daily Express iPad edition – Press Gazette tries it out
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 09:00
Dom Ponsford tries the Express ipad app: "The user experience is much more natural and fluid than with reading the digital version of a newspaper online using page-turning software. And the iPad screen does seem to lend itself particularly well to displaying tabloid news pages. … It perfectly mimics, and probably even improves, on the casual browsing experience of reading a real newspaper. And obviously, unlike with a web page, the reader has the benefit of seeing properly designed newspaper pages."
MediaWeek: Desmond to launch iPad app for Express
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 09:48
"Richard Desmond's Daily Express is readying an Apple iPad app with an upfront cost expected to be £1.79, offering free online content as well as a subscription-based replica of the paper."
BtoB: Publishers pin hopes on iPad
Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 11:59
"CabinetMaker FDM is a magazine aimed at professionals in the woodworking trade. With its free iPad app, created by Texterity (which produces digital editions of magazines), CabinetMaker FDM hopes to attract the hobbyist audience the print publication has so far failed to draw in appreciable numbers. …"
paidContent: Mags To Their Digital Units: Drop Dead
Monday, 1 March 2010, 08:47
Rafat Ali: "Five of the leading [US magazine] publishers—Time Inc., Hearst, Condé Nast, Wenner Media and Meredith—have banded together for this “power of print” campaign… One ad says: 'The Internet is fleeting. Magazines are immersive.' … Really? This is the message you want to send your own digital units?"
Press Gazette: Property Week launches first interactive magazine
Friday, 5 February 2010, 13:49
"… Ceros … page-turning technology … multimedia … Flash … permanent editor … Four editions of the free interactive magazine will be published this year and emailed to Property Week’s quarterly global edition and daily newsletter subscribers." Erm.
Recovering Journalist: They Never Learn
Sunday, 25 January 2009, 13:20
"Look, PDF publications DON'T WORK, either as a reader experience, for advertisers or as a business. … PDF products are beloved solely by printie publishers and editors who think readers want to read the news in a print-like layout, and don't understand that a) electronic delivery is a completely different format than print and b) readers really don't want to have to print out their own magazine or newspaper."
