Category Archives: digital_editions

Press Gazette: Daily Express iPad edition – Press Gazette tries it out

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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."

paidContent: Mags To Their Digital Units: Drop Dead

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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?"

Recovering Journalist: They Never Learn

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"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."