The Bookseller,
May 16, 2012, 8:04 AM EDT
Tablets and eReaders
Exclusives
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AppCheck: App Streamlines Greater Media's Path To Profit
Newspaper and radio company Greater Media is putting the iPad to good use, with an app created specifically for its sales team that helps reps cut down on paperwork and boost their time in the field. The app also could stand as an example for other media companies looking to streamline their sales efforts. More | Comments (1)
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Exec. Session: Journatic Helps Make Local News More Efficient
In an exclusive interview with NetNewsCheck, Journatic CEO Brian Timpone explains how his company's process of using algorithms and overseas workers to help gather community news can save publishers millions of dollars by better allocating their newsroom resources. More | Comments (1)
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Digital DMA: Digital Wide Open After Santa Barbara Newspaper's Civil War
In Santa Barbara, Calif., a seamy tale of conflict at local daily paper the News-Press has left the door wide open for the market's other media outlets to chip away at the paper's digital audience, and the area's local TV stations, a rival newspaper and an Internet pureplay have seized the opportunity. [Updated] More | Add comment
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Site Specific: Chapelboro Nets 25% Of WCHL-AM's Rev
While radio stations in general have been slow to embrace digital, WCHL, an AM talk radio station in Chapel Hill, N.C., has bucked the trend and built a standalone website that now nets 25% of its overall revenue. Barry Leffler, CEO and managing partner of Chapel Hill, N.C.'s Chapelboro, said the site has struck a chord by zeroing in on a community that was peripheral to its larger neighbors. More | Add comment
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Borrell Benchmarking Local Online Media: Local Web Ad Rev To Rise 21% In '12
Local online advertising revenue is expected to grow 21% in 2012 and could soon push past newspapers if it continues its growth spurt through 2013, according to Borrell Associates' new Benchmarking Local Online Media: 2011 Revenue Survey due out Tuesday. More | Add comment
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NAA mediaXchange: Study Finds News Apps Net Trust
Readers using mobile devices expressed a high level of trust when taking their news through the brand confines of an app, according to a new study conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates and commissioned by the Newspaper Association of America. Susan Kresnicka, executive director at Magid: "People who read their news through an app tend to be very devoted to that news experience." More | Add comment
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Borrell Local Online Ad Conference: Digital Benchmarks By the Numbers
Speaking at the Borrell Local Online Ad Conference, Gordon Borrell laid out his "digital dashboard," benchmarks for local media companies to be successful online, including winning over 45% of businesses that never advertise in print. More | Add comment
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ILM East '12: Brands Must Be Authentic, Unique On Social
A panel of social media experts at BIA/Kelsey's ILM East conference examined how combining traditional platforms with new ways of utilizing social analytics can translate into marketing and advertising gains for SMBs, but said that above all authenticity is the most important aspect to any successful social marketing or advertising play. More | Add comment
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Bowker: One-Third Of Brits Now eReading
HBO Sees Future Value In iPad App
Digiday,
May 15, 2012, 3:39 PM EDT
HBO isn’t ready to upend its business model just yet with the success of HBO Go, but the early signs are that it’s a valued add-on to the premium network’s cable-dependent model. Link
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Amazon To Launch Front-Lit Kindle In July
Reuters,
May 15, 2012, 8:20 AM EDT
Angelo: The Daily Is 'Going Great'
Capital New York,
May 15, 2012, 8:14 AM EDT
Jesse Angelo, editor in chief of The Daily, said things at the News Corp. tablet — and now iPhone — publication are "going great," with subscribers signing up at a higher rate than he expected. Link
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O Globo's Mag-Like App Ups Engagement
A surprising thing happened when Brazilian newspaper O Globo launched O Globo a Mais, a new weekday evening edition designed for its iPad app in February. The amount of time that people spent using the app per day shot up from an average of 26 minutes to an incredible 77 minutes. Link
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Nieman Journalism Lab,
May 10, 2012, 12:59 PM EDT
Media Buyers Want More Tablet Info For Mags
Advertising Age,
May 4, 2012, 3:26 PM EDT
The 4A's Print Media Committee, representing print media buyers, has sent a letter to the MPA, the magazine industry association, asking them to reveal more information about their tablet editions' performance. Link
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The Daily Adds New iPhone App
PaidContent,
May 3, 2012, 3:56 PM EDT
News Corp.'s The Daily is no longer for iPad's only: The publication has added an iPhone app. The new app includes some free stories but readers will have to subscribe at $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year to get full access. That’s half the price of the tablet edition. Link
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Infographic: Offbeat Tablet Habits In Homes
Lost Remote,
May 2, 2012, 8:09 AM EDT
E! Touts Social Reach, Tablet Friendliness At Upfront
Lost Remote,
May 2, 2012, 7:31 AM EDT
Financial Times Switching Off iOS App
PaidContent,
May 2, 2012, 6:57 AM EDT
The Financial Times will render its iOS app unusable by its remaining users over the next month, as it completes its HTML5 migration. The app had been removed from Apple's App Store in mid-2011, but the iOS version remained usable by subscribers who had already installed it. Link
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A Brief History Of Microsoft’s eReader Efforts
GigaOM,
May 1, 2012, 8:06 AM EDT
Punch Wants To Redefine Tablet Advertising
Adweek,
Apr 30, 2012, 7:35 AM EDT
The iPad-only publication Punch is eschewing Web-like pop-up or banner ads or the print-like ad pages found in most digital magazines, and instead is building specific app-like ad units around its sponsors. Link
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More Tabs Run Amazon's Android Than Google's
All Things Digital,
Apr 27, 2012, 2:54 PM EDT
The Future Of The $200 Tablet
ComputerWorld,
Apr 27, 2012, 7:00 AM EDT
Study: Tablet Ownership Will Double By 2014
TabTimes,
Apr 26, 2012, 3:59 PM EDT
A new report from Futuresource Consulting says total tablet sales went beyond 64 million units in 2011, but claims that this figure will shoot up to 232 million units in 2016. Link
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FT Passes 2M Users For HTML5 Web App
Guardian,
Apr 24, 2012, 8:09 AM EDT
Just 10 months after it's launch, the Financial Times HTML5 Web app, launched to bypass Apple's rules governing subscription-based iOS apps, has racked up more than 2 million users. Link
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Study: Tablets Outpace PCs For TV Watching
Lost Remote,
Apr 23, 2012, 8:23 AM EDT
People who own tablets watch more full-length TV programming on their devices than their computers, finds a new study by Viacom. The study found that tablet owners spend 15% of their time spent watching full-length TV shows on a tablet. Link
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Google Shutters One Pass Payment Platform
Total Telecom,
Apr 23, 2012, 8:04 AM EDT
Google's subscription service for online news sites was shut down on Friday as Google continued house cleaning launched when co-founder Larry Page took charge last year. Link
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Rumors Swirl Of Smaller iPad, Which Jobs Detested
Associated Press,
Apr 20, 2012, 8:24 AM EDT
For Struggling Local Pubs, iPad Shifts Abound
PaidContent,
Apr 18, 2012, 3:14 PM EDT
Some UK newspaper publishers are now hastening the electronic reform of their local titles challenged by digital consumption migration, the drying up of classified ads and rising print costs, a confluence of strategies suggests. Link
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Ad Age Digital Conference
Sony's Wiesenthal: Tablets Are TV's Future
Advertising Age,
Apr 18, 2012, 12:34 PM EDT
Waiting for the day that a majority of consumers download content from the internet directly to their TVs? You may be waiting a while, says Rob Wiesenthal, president-international, Sony ATV Music Publishing. "The past 10 years everyone has been trying to figure out what is the optimum [user experience] for [internet-enabled] TV. People are trying guns, pointer devices ... and actually, I think it is the tablet." Link
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Bonnier SVP Gregg Hano Named Mag+ CEO
Adweek,
Apr 17, 2012, 8:25 AM EDT
Gregg Hano, currently the senior VP of corporate sales and the technology group at Bonnier Corp., was named CEO of smartphone and tablet publishing platform Mag Plus, which spun off of Bonnier last year. Link
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Forrester Report
Tablets Become 'Couch Computer' Of Choice
Lost Remote,
Apr 13, 2012, 8:26 AM EDT
Tablets have replaced smartphones and PCs as the 'couch computer' of choice for TV viewers usinge a computer while watching TV, according to a new report from Forrester Research. Link
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B&N’s New Nook Is For Reading In The Dark
PaidContent,
Apr 13, 2012, 6:43 AM EDT
Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Nets
TechCrunch,
Apr 13, 2012, 6:35 AM EDT
A startup called Netizine, makers of a new, tablet-ready social magazine platform for publishers is currently in talks with seven of the 10 top global publishers, to help extricate their digital products from Apple's grip entirely. Link
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Forrester research
IPad Gives Apple Lead In Tablet-TV Push
MediaPost,
Apr 12, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT
Later this year, the iPad will add its latest TV-related feature, mirroring via AirPlay to Apple TV. While only 4.2 million Apple TVs have been sold, 1.4 million of that total came in the last quarter, suggesting that adoption is accelerating. Link
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Commentary
CNN's Zite Buy Proves Not All Takeovers Bad
AppAdvice,
Apr 12, 2012, 8:08 AM EDT
Bryan Wolfe on Zite's purchase by CNN: "Since day one, Zite has been committed in giving readers a new way to discover content online. And that hasn’t changed." Link
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Bonnier Launches 20 Titles Through Pulse
Folio,
Apr 9, 2012, 7:53 AM EDT
After a six-month trial run between Popular Science and content aggregation app Pulse scored a subscriber bonanza, Bonnier has decided to launch 19 more titles through it. Link
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Next Issue Pushes Digital Mags Forward
Wired,
Apr 9, 2012, 7:53 AM EDT
Next Issue Media CEO Morgan Guenther: "At a high industry level, our job is to start to turn around the decline of magazine readership as a slice of people’s leisure time. With digital technology, Web consumption has gone up, TV consumption has gone up, social media, and so forth — and a chunk of that has been at the expense of magazines.” Link
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Commentary
Is Next Issue Really A Netflix For Mags
GigOm,
Apr 6, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT
Mathew Ingram on Next Issue Media's tablet-based magazine newsstand and comparisons of it to Netflix and Hulu: "That analogy seems flawed in a number of ways. And while the single newsstand idea may be a better solution than the current profusion of competing apps from different publishers, does it really fit the way that people want to consume digital content now?" Link
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Nielsen: 2nd Screening Is Worldwide TV Habit
MediaPost,
Apr 6, 2012, 7:00 AM EDT
Smartphones and tablets have become living room companions for TV viewers to an astonishing level in the U.S. Nielsen reports that in its multinational survey of device owners, 88% of people in the U.S. with tablets say they have used their device while watching TV at least once in the last month. When it comes to smartphone second screening, the level of penetration is just as high — 86%. Link
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newsonomics of the Next Issue magazine future
Will Next Issue's Model Work For Papers?
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Apr 5, 2012, 2:02 PM EDT
Ken Doctor: "In one sense, newspaper titles are very different than magazines. Other than the U.S.'s three national titles, newspapers are by nature local, appealing only to tiny slices of the national population. Yet in creating a single place to buy subscriptions, or single copies — and then potentially packages of content — Next Issue is well ahead of the U.S. newspaper industry." Link
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USA Today Bets On Adaptive Mobile
Digiday Daily,
Apr 5, 2012, 8:04 AM EDT
Newspapers are experimenting with different ways of distributing content on tablets. When it comes to mobile, most publications rush to replicate their content via an app. USA Today is betting on an adaptive experience that morphs with the device. Link
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9 Pubs Ready To Embrace Zite News App
GigaOM,
Apr 4, 2012, 3:54 PM EDT
Bleacher Report, The Daily Beast, Fox Sports, HLNtv, The Huffington Post, Motley Fool, The Next Web, VentureBeat, and Zite parent company CNN have agreed to become the first members of the Zite Publisher Program. Link
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NAA mediaXchange 2012
Study: News Apps Net Readers' Trust
NetNewsCheck,
Apr 4, 2012, 12:40 PM EDT
Next Issue Launches Netflix Model For Mags
All Things Digital,
Apr 4, 2012, 8:07 AM EDT
Next Issue Media, once called the "Hulu for Digital Magazines," has launched its service, which will charge readers a flat fee of $10-$15 per month for all the digital magazines they want (from Hearst, Meredith, Time Inc. and Conde Nast). Link
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NAA mediaXchange 2012
Paper Execs Buoyant On Digital Prospects
NetNewsCheck,
Apr 4, 2012, 7:21 AM EDT
Mag Text On iPad Hindered By PNG Files
Wired,
Apr 3, 2012, 8:14 AM EDT
The problem behind the magazines' resolution issues on the new iPad's retina display are caused by most titles' use of PNG image files. But why are magazines using PNGs in the first place? Tim Carmody: "The answer turns out to be really complicated, but in a way that I hope actually tells you more about how the publishing industry and the iPad works than examples where everything works out perfectly well. Issues of design control and workflow in print magazines transferred to tablets are well-established." Link
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Survey: 82% Of New iPad Owners 'Very Satisfied'
CNNMoney.com,
Apr 2, 2012, 2:24 PM EDT
Pub: Amazon Halted Kindle Newspaper Adds
PaidContent,
Apr 2, 2012, 8:26 AM EDT
Amazon is denying a frustrated publisher's claim that it has indefinitely stopped adding any more newspapers and magazines to its Kindle store around the world. Link
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New Ink Rubs Off On Touchscreen Devices
GigaOM,
Mar 29, 2012, 8:43 AM EDT
Printed material using Printechnologic’s Touchcode technology looks no different than a standard print product, but a customizable electronic code embedded in the print process interacts with a phone’s capacitive screen, much like your fingers do, giving smartphones a Web address or file download or other data. Link
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Top 100 Newsstand App Bring In $70K Daily
The Atlantic Wire,
Mar 28, 2012, 8:13 AM EDT
According to app analytics company Distimo, "more than $70K USD is already being made daily by the top 100 grossing [iPad] Newsstand applications in the United States." The top revenue getters: News Corp.'s The Daily followed by The New York Times. Link
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Tablet Traffic Patterns Puzzle Marketers
Rimm-Kaufman Group,
Mar 27, 2012, 3:42 PM EDT
While tablets may or may not be ushering in the "post-PC" era the reality is that user behavior suggests tablets and desktops are not neatly interchangeable, neither in the minds of users nor in how marketers should address them strategically. Link
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Magazines Giving New iPad Trouble
Mashable,
Mar 26, 2012, 3:26 PM EDT
As with any high-profile product release, Apple's new iPad device has been peppered with complaints since reaching consumers' hands on March 16. Among them: that magazines look terrible on the iPad 3′s high-resolution display. Link
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Will Kindle Fire Be An iPad Killer?
Adweek,
Mar 22, 2012, 7:10 AM EDT
Watching Video On New iPad A Costly Pursuit
NetNewsCheck,
Mar 22, 2012, 6:29 AM EDT
Apple's latest iPad is presenting users with a sort of Catch-22: It's high resolution "Retina Display" and faster connection are specifically designed to encourage online video use, but according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, some users are finding out just how expensive a pursuit that can be. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.
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New iPad Has Perks For Publishers
Adweek,
Mar 20, 2012, 3:19 PM EDT
The new iPad's richer visuals raise concerns that consumers already frustrated by long download times for digital editions of magazines will have to suffer still more waiting. But some good news: Apple is quietly letting publishers offer trials on auto-renewing subscriptions. Link
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FAA Revisits Takeoff, Landing Policy On eReaders
PaidContent,
Mar 19, 2012, 8:21 AM EDT
Will iPad Spark Video Creation Revolution?
GigaOM,
Mar 16, 2012, 3:11 PM EDT
The new iPad’s combination of a large, high-resolution screen, excellent camera sensor and updated editing software could change the way we think about creating video content with tablets. Link
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Conde Nast Debuts Tab Readership Reports
Advertising Age,
Mar 16, 2012, 8:21 AM EDT
Almost two years after Conde Nast started putting its magazines on the Apple iPad, its advertisers are finally getting one of the promised benefits: regular information on each issue's tablet readership, down to its individual ads. Link
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Nielsen Report
U.S.Tab Owners More Apt To Pay For Content
Nielsen Wire,
Mar 16, 2012, 7:13 AM EDT
A new study from Nielsen found that tablet owners in the United States were the most likely to pay for all categories of media content ... except news. Only 19% of U.S. tablet owners paid for news content during the fourth quarter of 2011. Link
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HBO Go Passes 98% Of Cable Subs
PaidContent,
Mar 15, 2012, 3:13 PM EDT
With HBO Go — and sibling Cinemax platform Max Go — rolling out on Cablevision, the platforms are now distributed to 98% of pay TV subscribers in the U.S. Link
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The Daily Pushes Into Custom Publishing
All Things Digital,
Mar 15, 2012, 7:56 AM EDT
The tablet newspaper is quietly getting into the custom publishing business. A year after launch The Daily has put out several standalone apps, using the same Web app publishing system it built in-house in the fall of 2010. Link
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New iPad Display Could Put Mags On Crash Diet
minOnline,
Mar 15, 2012, 7:34 AM EDT
inMobi Study
Apple iOS Still Top, Android Boosts Tablet Presence
MediaPost,
Mar 13, 2012, 2:34 PM EDT
For Tablet Visionary Fidler, A Lot Of What-Ifs
The Washington Post,
Mar 9, 2012, 3:19 PM EST
In 1994, while running a lab for Knight-Ridder dreaming up the future of newspapers, Roger Fidler starred in his own video demonstrating a prototype he cooked up that was remarkably like the iPad — black, thin, rectangular, with text and video displayed on screen. For Fidler and colleagues who knew him back then, the video’s resurfacing after the iPad launched generated a lot of thorny questions: What if their lab hadn’t been shut down by shortsighted corporate bean counting? Is Fidler getting enough credit, or even any credit? Did Apple steal the idea? Link
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U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers Over EBook Pricing
The Wall Street Journal,
Mar 8, 2012, 8:04 AM EST
Apple Ups App Download Limit To 50MBs
App Advice,
Mar 8, 2012, 8:02 AM EST
Apple has increased its App Store iOS application download size limit from 20 megabytes to 50 megabytes. The new limit supports all media — music, video and apps. Link
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What The New iPad Means For eBooks
Digital Book World,
Mar 8, 2012, 7:41 AM EST
Apple Shows Off New iPad, Updates TV
All Things Digital,
Mar 7, 2012, 3:31 PM EST
Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the newest iteration of the iPad tablet computer today. Among the new features: an improved “Retina” display, a 5-megapixel camera, 1080p video recording, voice dictation feature, and it will work with new high-speed 4G LTE. Link
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EBooks Let Journalists Stretch Legs
The New York Times,
Mar 7, 2012, 8:45 AM EST
Dwight Garner: "Here's what Kindle Singles actually are: probably the best reason to buy an ereader in the first place. They're works of long-form journalism that seek out that sweet spot between magazine articles and hardcover books." Link
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Apple's iPad 3 To Hit Stores On March 16
9 to 5 Mac,
Mar 7, 2012, 8:28 AM EST
B&N To Host UK Event For Nook Developers
Wired,
Mar 5, 2012, 4:00 PM EST
As iPad 3 Debut Nears, Some See PC Decline
The chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, has a prediction: the day will come when tablet devices like the Apple iPad outsell traditional personal computers. His forecast has backing from a growing number of analysts and veteran technology industry executives, who contend that the torrid growth rates of the iPad, combined with tablet competition from the likes of Amazon.com and Microsoft, make a changing of the guard a question of when, not if. Link
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The New York Times,
Mar 5, 2012, 1:13 PM EST
After A Year, Tablet Daily Is A Struggle
The New York Times,
Mar 5, 2012, 8:37 AM EST
A year after its launch, News Corp.'s tablet-only publication The Daily hasn't quite lived up to its launch-day promise that it would "redefine the news." Link
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Commentary
Media Firms' Blocking Efforts Punish Fans
Reuters Blog,
Mar 5, 2012, 8:28 AM EST
Reuter's Paul Smalera on media companies blocking access to some content based on what platform a reader is using: "With these tactics, media companies aren't creating content paywalls, they're creating content ghettos. ... Stop messing with the user experience to deny readers their content simply because you can detect what platform they're on. And stop punishing users who are investing in the latest devices to consume your output." Link
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Seattle Times Readies Apps, Hints At Paywall
NetNewsCheck,
Mar 1, 2012, 3:43 PM EST
The Seattle Times will roll out new tablet and smartphone apps in April. The newspaper also hinted at a possible future paywall, saying that its digital properties "remain free and open for the time being.” Full Story
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Yahoo Sets Tab Features For Connected TVs
Beet.tv,
Mar 1, 2012, 3:16 PM EST
With more than 1 million monthly users, Yahoo is aiming to expand the reach of its connected TVs this year and is planning to roll out several new features, including tablet features that will let viewers watching videos on their mobile devices "flip" them up to connected TVs for viewing there. Play video. Link
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TabTimes, Magazine About Tablets, Launches
MediaPost,
Mar 1, 2012, 7:32 AM EST
With a mix of news, features, reviews, how-to stories and analyses, digital news magazineTabTimes will report on the tablet computer industry itself. Link
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The Daily Threatens Ex-Staffer Over Tweet
JimRomenesko.com,
Feb 29, 2012, 7:22 AM EST
Adobe Launches Video Ad-Serving Suite
MediaPost,
Feb 27, 2012, 7:55 AM EST
Adobe Systems will release a suite of products today that claims to change the way videos and ads are delivered across iPads, Android tablets, Internet-connected TVs and other devices from one platform. Link
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Are Daily's 100K Subs A Ceiling, Or A Start?
MediaPost,
Feb 24, 2012, 8:24 AM EST
Speaking at MediaPost’s Tablet Revolution conference Thursday, The Daily publisher Greg Clayman didn’t discuss whether the publication’s business model is sustainable, given the sizeable investment behind it. He stressed that the 100,000 subscribers the iPad-only publication has drawn so far shows that people are willing to pay for content. Link
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Condé Nast Plans To Digitize Archives For Tablets
PaidContent,
Feb 23, 2012, 8:42 AM EST
Condé Nast To Unify Tab, Mobile Production
PaidContent,
Feb 22, 2012, 3:51 PM EST
Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the blossoming number of new devices, after earlier implementing an iPad-specific strategy. Link
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Apps Are ‘Huge’ For Barnes & Noble
PaidContent,
Feb 22, 2012, 8:19 AM EST
Storify Launches iPad App
Mashable,
Feb 22, 2012, 8:13 AM EST
Like its Web-based version, which has been used by news organizations such as The New York Times and Al Jazeera, the app makes it easy to scroll through and assemble Tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook photos and Instagram photos into a social media timeline. Link
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Amazon Plans Larger Version Of Kindle
All Things Digital,
Feb 21, 2012, 3:10 PM EST
What People Hate About Their iPads, Kindle Fires
ReadWriteWeb,
Feb 21, 2012, 3:05 PM EST
AOL Rolls Out Tablet-Optimized Site
Mobile Marketer,
Feb 21, 2012, 2:39 PM EST
AOL has debuted a tablet-optimized version of its Web site with an updated layout that was built using HTML5 and offers users an app-like experience. Link
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BlackBerry Rolls Out OS 2.0 For PlayBook
CNET,
Feb 21, 2012, 8:27 AM EST
Valentine's Day Mobile Commerce Hits 14.5%
Some 14.5% of Valentine's Day-related retail site traffic was initiated by mobile devices, according to IBM Benchmark, proving that the rise in mobile commerce during the end of last year was not a fluke. Link
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MediaPost,
Feb 20, 2012, 3:30 PM EST
B&N 8GB Nook Set To Take On Kindle Fire
The Verge,
Feb 20, 2012, 3:01 PM EST
How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps
PaidContent,
Feb 17, 2012, 6:29 PM EST
In a reversal of today’s content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents. According to Mike Goldsmith, editor in chief of magazine publisher Future, the next redesign for his company's titles will have their tablet versions in mind. Link
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Tablets, Social To Impact Mobile Commerce
Mobile Marketer,
Feb 17, 2012, 3:43 PM EST
As consumers shift their online browsing and buying behavior away from personal computers and toward mobile devices — in particular, tablets — their shopping habits are adapting to fit both the benefits and the limitations of the mobile world. Link
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Newsonomics Of Ads That Go Bump In The Night
News Orgs Not Taking Advantage Of Tablets
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Feb 17, 2012, 3:24 PM EST
Author Ken Doctor on news organizations losing trailing Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and AOL in digital advertising and how tablet apps have the potential to turn the tables: "News companies may have been slow to the parties of search, social, video, and mobile, and most have unfortunately taken a go-slow approach to the tablet — but platforms like the iPad offer a way out of the ad desert." Link
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Nielsen Study
In Homes With Tablets, Most Kids Use Them
Reuters,
Feb 17, 2012, 2:17 PM EST
About 70% of children in households that own tablet computers used these devices, according to the latest study from research firm Nielsen. Link
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2011 Apple iOS Device Sales Outpace Macs All-Time
Mashable,
Feb 17, 2012, 8:32 AM EST
Chadwick Martin Bailey Study
Size Not An Issue When It Comes To Screens
MediaPost,
Feb 15, 2012, 11:10 AM EST
Consumers are using their tablets and smartphones to stream video programming at an increasing rate, and they’re doing it in their homes, where televisions are available, according to a new study conducted by Chadwick Martin Bailey. Link
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Paper Launches Brazil's First iPad Edition
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas,
Feb 14, 2012, 3:54 PM EST
The newspaper O Globo rolled out the first digital edition in Brazil designed for Apple's iPad, "O Globo a mais," on Jan. 30. The newspaper's editor Adriana Barsotti said the key to exploring the potential of new media is syngery and the best time to do it is now, while the newspaper crisis is still above the equator. Link
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Hearst To Link Digital Editions With Amazon
Adweek,
Feb 14, 2012, 11:04 AM EST
Hearst Magazines is further blurring the line between editorial and commerce with plans in the coming weeks to start making many of its Kindle Fire editions shoppable by linking products to Amazon. Hearst will get an undisclosed cut of the sales. Link
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NPD Group Report
Consumer Electronics Was $144B Biz In 2011
CNET,
Feb 14, 2012, 8:11 AM EST
Personal computers, with a 19% share, and TVs (at 14%) were the top categories, with tablets and eReaders (11%) doubling 2010 sales to become the No. 3 category in 2011, according to market research company NPD Group. Link
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Zite Finds Clear Patterns In iPhone, iPad Use
CNET,
Feb 14, 2012, 7:49 AM EST
Personalized news reader Zite has found that most people use the app on their iPhone during the day, but settle down for longer reads on their iPad during the evening, a pattern that anyone working on apps for the two devices would be wise to heed. Link
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Commentary
Publishers Are Flubbing The iPad
Reflections of a Newsosaur,
Feb 10, 2012, 2:54 PM EST
Alan Mutter: "Publishers have to start doing better, because iPad owners, who represent the vast bulk of the tablet computing market, look an awful lot like newspaper readers." Link
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Apple To Announce iPad 3 First Week In March
All Things Digital,
Feb 9, 2012, 8:35 AM EST
GfK MRI Study
Study: Users Want Sameness In Tablet Mags
MediaPost,
Feb 7, 2012, 3:37 PM EST
Some 72% of tablet magazine readers said they would prefer that their digital editions follow the same format, according to a survey from GfK MRI's iPanel. Link
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News Int. Abandons iPad Project
The Independent,
Feb 6, 2012, 4:01 PM EST
News International has abandoned Project Two22, a secret initiative named after the building in London's Gray's Inn Road where it was based, which was to produce content for the company's brand on the Apple tablet and similar devices.
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After A Year, Tablet Daily Is A Struggle
The New York Times,
Feb 6, 2012, 4:01 PM EST
Though News Corp.'s one-year-old tablet newspaper The Daily has garnered 100,000 subscribers and is on target to break even in five years, it has struggled to break into the national conversation or to drive news and build on its brand the way traditional outlets do. Link
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The Guardian Tries Out Immersive Video
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Feb 2, 2012, 8:37 AM EST
The Guardian is launching a new experiment in video, partnering with video company Condition One to release full-immersion travel guides. Link
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The Daily At One: Some Lessons Learned
A year ago, The Daily launched with much fanfare. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch declared, "We believe The Daily will be the model for how stories are told and consumed in this digital age." If nothing else, it has proven that the future never travels in a straight line. Link
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Digiday Daily,
Feb 2, 2012, 8:34 AM EST
Study: 52% Of Readers Not Likely To Buy eReader
PaidContent,
Feb 1, 2012, 10:15 AM EST
New App Is Home To Long-Form Journalism
Capital New York,
Feb 1, 2012, 7:51 AM EST
Longform.org is launching a new iPad app that cuts out ads and pageview-churning links and offers evidence that there is a growing appetite for longform journalism on digital platforms. Link
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Apple iPad Breaks HP's Hold On Top PC Spot
CNET,
Jan 31, 2012, 8:48 AM EST
Kindle Sales Push 6M For Fourth Quarter
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan has raised his estimate for fourth-quarter sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet to 6 million units from 5 million. Rohan: "Kindle Fire has staked out an important market position due to its loyal Amazon customer base and attractive device pricing." Link
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All Things Digital,
Jan 30, 2012, 2:49 PM EST
Apple's Tablet Lead Slims As Android Field Grows
PaidContent,
Jan 26, 2012, 2:18 PM EST
Indie Style Mag For iPad Makes Debut
TechCrunch,
Jan 26, 2012, 8:17 AM EST
Future Drew 75K New Subs With Newsstand
PaidContent,
Jan 26, 2012, 8:17 AM EST
Since its magazines hit Apple's Newsstand, UK magazine publisher Future has gained 75,000 new subscribers and has made over $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue. Link
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Apple iBooks
350K Textbooks Downloaded From iBooks In 3 Days
All Things Digital,
Jan 24, 2012, 7:48 AM EST
Newsweek iPad App Worth A Look
Fishbowl NY,
Jan 23, 2012, 4:02 PM EST
Time Warner App Now Streams TV Live To iPhones
Engadget,
Jan 23, 2012, 8:23 AM EST
Pew study
Tablet, eReader Sales Soar After Holidays
The New York Times,
Jan 23, 2012, 8:17 AM EST
A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project finds that since the holidays, the share of adults who owned tablet computers increased to 19% from 10%, with the same increase for adults who owned e-readers. Link
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Adobe Digital Marketing Insights Report
Tablet Users Outspend Smartphone Users
Fast Company,
Jan 19, 2012, 3:07 PM EST
Analyst: Kindle Fire Hotter Than Expected
RBC Capital analyst Ross Sandler: "Our assumption is that AMZN could sell 3-4 million Kindle Fire units in Q4, and that those units are accretive to company-average operating margin within the first six months of ownership. Our analysis assigns a cumulative lifetime operating income per unit of $136, with a cumulative operating margin of over 20%."
Forbes,
Jan 19, 2012, 3:07 PM EST
Our assumption is that AMZN could sell 3-4 million Kindle Fire units in Q4, and that those units are accretive to company-average operating margin within the first six months of ownership. Our analysis assigns a cumulative lifetime operating income per unit of $136, with a cumulative operating margin of over 20%.Our assumption is that AMZN could sell 3-4 million Kindle Fire units in Q4, and that those units are accretive to company-average operating margin within the first six months of ownership. Our analysis assigns a cumulative lifetime operating income per unit of $136, with a cumulative operating margin of over 20%.
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NY Post Launches Kindle Fire App
Fishbowl NY,
Jan 17, 2012, 3:55 PM EST
The New York Post this week launched a new app specifically optimized for Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet. The app also work on other Android tablets. Link
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On Tablets, Mag Back Issues Prove Popular
Adweek,
Jan 12, 2012, 8:10 AM EST
Magazine publishers are finding that single issue sales have turned out to be a good way of selling back copies of magazines, which has been cumbersome to do in print. Link
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Guardian To Start Charging For iPad App On Jan. 13
PaidContent,
Jan 10, 2012, 3:26 PM EST
New Year Predictions
In 2012: New Wave Of Hyperlocal News Sites
Street Fight,
Jan 6, 2012, 2:51 PM EST
Alex Salkever on what could be on the horizon for hyperlocal news in 2012: "Expect for some more ambitious souls to launch hyperlocal news sites based on [less expensive] technology offerings and designed to run at an extremely low technical overhead while delivering 95% of the functionality. And this will be a good thing that could make hyperlocal networks more affordable to build and manage while delivering enough reach to cross the heft threshold required for larger ad buyers." Link
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Kindle Fire Puts A Dent In iPad Sales
StrategyEye,
Jan 6, 2012, 11:46 AM EST
Kindle Owners Upset By Amazon Subscription Offer
All Things Digital,
Jan 6, 2012, 7:44 AM EST
AP Brings Content To News Reader Pulse
PaidContent,
Jan 6, 2012, 6:58 AM EST
The Associated Press yesterday announced that it signed a deal with tablet news-reading app Pulse to run AP stories, video and photos on the service. Link
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Amazon Ends Lawsuit Over Kindle Fire
PaidContent,
Jan 6, 2012, 6:51 AM EST
Financial Times Buys Its App Maker Assanka
PaidContent,
Jan 5, 2012, 8:05 AM EST
The Financial Times has acquired Assanka, the London-based developer that designed the newspaper's HTML5 Web app that allowed it to bypass Apple's App Store. Link
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USA Today Embraces Kindle Fire With App
PaidContent,
Jan 3, 2012, 3:16 PM EST
USA Today has become the latest publisher to take a separate approach with Amazon's Kindle Fire, launching a specialized app for the device despite having already developed an Android tablet application. Link
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2011 Trends That Will Reshape News In 2012
Poynter,
Jan 3, 2012, 7:38 AM EST
Tablet computers becoming mainstream devices, Facebook's partnerships with news publishers and Storify's collecting the news are three of the trends from 2011 that will have a major impact in 2012. Link
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Amazon: We Sold Over 4M Kindles In December
TechCrunch,
Dec 29, 2011, 1:55 PM EST
IAB: Digital Ads Will Have Breakthrough 2012
MediaPost,
Dec 29, 2011, 1:28 PM EST
IAB President and CEO Randall Rothenberg believes 2012 will be a breathrough year for digital advertising — ads that will go direct to the tablet, rather than start on TV or print. Link
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Can A Google Tablet Stand Up To iPad, Kindle Fire?
Mobile Marketer,
Dec 28, 2011, 8:53 AM EST
Report: iOS Activations Increase 12x Over Holiday
The Next Web,
Dec 28, 2011, 8:51 AM EST
Christmas Weekend Saw 3.7M Android Activations
Business Insider,
Dec 28, 2011, 8:49 AM EST
Apple Newsstand
Pop Sci Sub Sales Take Off After Newsstand
All Things Digital,
Dec 23, 2011, 3:11 PM EST
From Bonnier's Mag Plus tablet-publishing division comes some solid proof that Apple's Newsstand has helped subscription sales. The publisher's Popular Science jumped from just under 29,000 digital subscriptions to over 40,000 since Newsstand launched in October. Link
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Amazon Stops Hiding Competition On Kindle Fire
TechCrunch,
Dec 22, 2011, 2:48 PM EST
UK's Times Plans Christmas Digital Edition
MediaWeek,
Dec 22, 2011, 2:50 PM EST
News International's Sunday Times will be published on Christmas Day this year for the first time in its 190-year history, thanks to its new digital versions. The Android and iPad editions of the paper for that day will be free. Link
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Toy Maker Sues Asus Over ‘Transformer’ Tablet
PaidContent,
Dec 22, 2011, 8:56 AM EST
Kindle Adds Papers, Mags To iPad App
The Verge,
Dec 22, 2011, 8:50 AM EST
Amazon's latest update of its Kindle app for iPad gives users access to the same full-color magazines and newspapers offered on the Kindle Fire. Link
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Buying A Tablet Is Easy; Getting Mags Is Hard
PBS MediaShift,
Dec 20, 2011, 3:18 PM EST
Buying that new iPad, Kindle or Nook for Christmas is just the first step to becoming a digital magazine reader. While shopping for books and movies is a fairly straightforward process, getting your favorite magazines onto your new e-reading device can be trickier. Link
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Millennial Media Report
Kindle Fire Impressions Grow 19% Each Day
PaidContent,
Dec 20, 2011, 8:31 AM EST
Multiplatform ad network Millennial Media says that ad impressions on Amazon's Kindle Fire have been steadily growing since launch, at a rate of about 19% daily, "slightly" outpacing impressions on Apple's iPad. Link
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CNN Eyes Digital Buys To Catch Up To Fox
Bloomberg,
Dec 20, 2011, 8:31 AM EST
The cable news network wants deals that could help it capitalize on the growing consumer interest in television viewing on multiple devices, according to CNN President Jim Walton. Link
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Amazon: Kindle Says Topping 1M Devices A Week
Bloomberg,
Dec 19, 2011, 3:40 PM EST
Time Warner Cable, HBO In Deal For HBO Go
Los Angeles Times,
Dec 19, 2011, 7:30 AM EST
After several months of negotiations, the 12 million-subscriber cable company has finally reached a deal with HBO to carry its new HBO Go, a service that allows the pay channel's subscribers access to its content on multiple platforms inside and outside the home. Link
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Amazon Shares Some Kindle Sales Numbers
All Things Digital,
Dec 15, 2011, 3:11 PM EST
The Economist Sees Rebirth Of Lean-Back Media
PaidContent,
Dec 14, 2011, 1:46 PM EST
Low-Priced Devices Could Spark Tablet Boom
Apple's iPad is this year's hot holiday tech item, but a slew of lower-priced tablets could serve as gateway into the tablet universe for many people this holiday season. Link
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NPR,
Dec 13, 2011, 11:48 AM EST
Survey: Tablet Holiday Shopping Takes Off
NetNewsCheck,
Dec 9, 2011, 7:28 AM EST
Some 87% of tablet owners are using the mobile device to do their holiday shopping this year, according to a new survey from Equation Research and Zmags. Full Story
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TWC Subscribers Waiting For HBO Go
New York Post,
Dec 8, 2011, 9:27 AM EST
IAB: Mobile Shopping Runs High In Houston
Houston topped the list of the country's most mobile shopping savvy cities, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Dallas/Fort Worth rounded out the top five. Full Story
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NetNewsCheck,
Dec 7, 2011, 3:51 PM EST
EBay App Combines TV Shopping, Mobile
Broadcast Engineering,
Dec 7, 2011, 3:28 PM EST
The online auction site updated its popular iPad app to include a new feature called Watch with eBay. Users can tell the app their network provider and channel, and it will serve them items for sale directly related to what they are watching. Link
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InsightExpress Launches Metrics For Tablet Ads
MediaPost,
Dec 7, 2011, 2:22 PM EST
Paywalls and Pay Strategies
Strib Paywall: Rev Rises Despite Traffic Slip
MinnPost,
Dec 7, 2011, 7:36 AM EST
Rhythm New Media Report
WiFi Powers iPad, iPhone Video Viewing
MediaPost,
Dec 6, 2011, 1:42 PM EST
News Reader Flipboard To Roll Out In China
Penn Olson,
Dec 6, 2011, 8:10 AM EST
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire App
PaidContent,
Dec 5, 2011, 1:51 PM EST
The newspaper has joined the growing list of publishers releasing apps exclusively for Amazon's Kindle Fire. The free app joins Conde Nast and the Weather Channel, which created Fire-only apps for the device's launch. Link
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Apple Opt-In Could Be Trouble For Time, Lang
PaidContent,
Dec 2, 2011, 3:52 PM EST
Time Inc. could lose valuable marketing and advertising data if a large portion of its 31 million print subs migrate to digital and take advantage of Apple's policy and decide not to share their personal details. Link
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Amazon Schools Tablet Makers With Kindle Fire
Fast Company,
Dec 2, 2011, 2:55 PM EST
Consumer Reports Bundles iPad Sub With Print
Folio,
Dec 2, 2011, 7:07 AM EST
Amazon Santa Helps Kids Put Wish Lists On Tablets
BIA/Kelsey,
Dec 1, 2011, 8:59 AM EST
Newsweek To Launch iPad App In January
Fishbowl NY,
Dec 1, 2011, 8:10 AM EST
The weekly news magazine is set to launch its digital version early next year. Dirk Barnett, Newsweek creative director: "Newsweek’s iPad app will enhance the strong design landscape of the magazine, building on the visual strengths with interactives, video elements and an extension of the strong photojournalism that has been a hallmark of the magazine for decades." Link
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About Rolls Out Lifestyle Fare On Flipboard
PaidContent,
Nov 30, 2011, 8:20 AM EST
As New York Times Co.'s About Group continues its turnaround efforts in the face of weak display and cost-per-click ad sales, About.com is hoping that its placement within the social reader app Flipboard will help bring in new readers and advertisers. Link
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Mags Pull Back On Tablet Bells And Whistles
Adweek,
Nov 30, 2011, 6:57 AM EST
Magazine publishers say their research found no meaningful difference in readers willingness to pay for magazine apps based on advanced elements. Link
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Personalizing Helps Economist Win In Digital
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Nov 29, 2011, 1:56 PM EST
Megan Garber, on how The Economist is winning over digital fans: "What The Economist has managed to capture — to recapture — is, I think, the sense of self and self-containment that defined media brands before those brands became social. It is not just clever content, cleverly packaged. It is also an outsourced worldview." Link
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Social TV Startup Bee TV Closes Its Hive
Lost Remote,
Nov 29, 2011, 1:06 PM EST
Rolling Stone Launches iPad Beatles Guide
PaidContent,
Nov 29, 2011, 8:24 AM EST
Rolling Stone this week will debut the iPad companion app for its new book The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide. The magazine's parent, Wenner Media, is also preparing to launch full magazine replica apps on the iPad for the music magazine and US Weekly. Link
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FT Sees Content Beating Print Ads
Reuters,
Nov 28, 2011, 3:33 PM EST
The Financial Times, which now makes neary 30% of its revenue online, expects its print ad revenue to be overtaken by subscription and cover price sales for the first time this year. Link
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NYT Offers Half-Off Digital For Cyber Monday
NetNewsCheck,
Nov 28, 2011, 3:33 PM EST
The New York Times is getting in on the Cyber Monday craze, with its own deal offering 26-week digital subscriptions for half off their regular price. Full Story
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Economist Grabs 100K Digital Subscribers
Guardian,
Nov 28, 2011, 8:21 AM EST
In the 18 months since launching its Kindle app and 12 months since launching its iPhone/iPad app, The Economist says it has garnered 100,000 digital subscribers. Link
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This Holiday Season, Tablets Go Mainstream
The electronic gadget du jour is ready to be this year's favorite big ticket item of the holiday season and move from niche product to the mainstream. Full Story
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Associated Press,
Nov 28, 2011, 7:56 AM EST
Commentary
Paulson: Tablets Will Keep Newspapers Alive
American Journalism Review,
Nov 28, 2011, 6:55 AM EST
Ken Paulson, president of the American Society of News Editors, on newspapers publishing print editions only a few days per week and electronic editions the rest of the time: "If the end result is on thin days we have electronic delivery and other days much more substantive newspapers with more heft, everyone wins" Link
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EBay Gets Social With Updated iPad App
Lost Remote,
Nov 23, 2011, 12:30 PM EST
The shopping giant eBay has just updated its iPad app with a new feature called “Watch along with eBay.” The company’s first foray into the second-screen universe, the app displays items for sale that relate to the TV show you’re watching. Well, roughly relate. Link
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eMarketer predicts
Tablets To Hit 55 Million Users In 2012
MediaPost,
Nov 22, 2011, 3:35 PM EST
The number of Americans using tablet computers will expand from 33.7 million this year to 54.8 million next year, according to a new study from eMarketer. Link
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Apple, Amazon Lead Tablet Race
MediaPost,
Nov 22, 2011, 3:23 PM EST
Time Warner Adds Local Stations To iPad App
Time Warner Cable is working to add local stations to its iPad streaming app, allowing customers to watch broadcast shows on the devices anywhere in their homes. The cable operator’s offering includes a slew of cable networks, but no access to television stations. Link
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MediaPost,
Nov 22, 2011, 8:46 AM EST
Yahoo Livestand
Livestand Rolls Out 'Living Ads' With Toyota
Adweek,
Nov 22, 2011, 8:46 AM EST
Yahoo this week debuted its new TV-meets-magazine-meets-online ad format, the "living ad" — which combines video and photography with interactivity, personalization and customization — with its launch partner Toyota. Link
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Nook, Zino Tie iPad For Magazine Penetration
PaidContent,
Nov 22, 2011, 6:58 AM EST
While nearly half of U.S. magazine publishers have launched apps for Apple's iPad tablet, about the same proportion are also on Barnes & Noble's Nook Newsstand and Zinio’s cross-platform newsstand, according to McPheters & Co.'s "The State of the App" report. Link
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Association of Magazine Media Study
IPad Mag Readers To Pubs: More, Please
All Things Digital,
Nov 21, 2011, 3:57 PM EST
Two-thirds of people who read magazines on tablets and eReaders think they’ll be spending more time with digital issues over the next year, and 63% of them want more digital content, according to a new study from the Association of Magazine Media. Link
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Tablets.com Goes Up For Sale
TechCrunch,
Nov 21, 2011, 3:40 PM EST
TV Sites, Apps Should Be Second Screens
Lost Remote,
Nov 21, 2011, 3:27 PM EST
Cory Bergman: "With the tremendous potential of the second-screen — both for engaging viewers and opening up a tremendous new revenue stream through interactive advertising — I’ll argue that now is the time to make the second screen the home screen, not as an added feature, but as the core experience." Link
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Analyst: Kindle Fire ‘Devastating’ For Other Tablets
PaidContent,
Nov 21, 2011, 2:46 PM EST
Study: iPad Drives 88% Of Tablet Web Traffic
The Apple iPad, which dominates the tablet computer market, also drives 87.6% of tablet Web traffic worldwide, compared to only 10.9% for Android devices, according to a study from tech blog Royal Pingdom. Link
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Royal Pingdom,
Nov 21, 2011, 7:44 AM EST
FT Web App Delivers 1 Million Users
The Financial Times' move to drop its iOS app for an HTML5 version in an effort to sidestep Apple's in-app subscription model has racked up 1 million users since its June launch. Link
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MediaPost,
Nov 21, 2011, 6:59 AM EST
Research Firm: Amazon Sells $199 Tablet At A Loss
Associated Press,
Nov 20, 2011, 6:56 PM EST
Newsstand Brings Success To Early Adopters
PaidContent,
Nov 18, 2011, 4:01 PM EST
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to McPheters & Company's The State Of The App. Link
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Charlie Brown Shows iPad Meaning Of Xmas
Mashable,
Nov 18, 2011, 3:40 PM EST
Loud Crow Interactive has reimagined holiday classic A Charlie Brown Christmas as an interactive pop-up book for iPad and Android tablets.
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Nielsen: iPads Topping Christmas Wish Lists
Nielsen Wire,
Nov 18, 2011, 3:18 PM EST
Flipboard Readies For iPhone Launch
News aggregation app Flipboard has introduced new features to support its upcoming iPhone version. The company also is preparing a relaunch of of its tablet app to compete with Chinese copycats. Link
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PaidContent,
Nov 18, 2011, 3:18 PM EST
News Mag The Week Launches iPad App
PaidContent,
Nov 18, 2011, 3:18 PM EST
Dennis Publishing's weekly news digest magazine The Week has launched a new iPad app. The app is free for the first four weeks courtesy of a sponsorship agreement with Rolex. Link
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OC Register Launches Rebranded iPad App
The Orange County Register Thursday evening launched its rebranded iPad app The Peel. The app includes a daily multimedia-rich feature, along with news, event listings and photo and video galleries. Full Story
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NetNewsCheck,
Nov 17, 2011, 6:28 PM EST
Nokia Hints At An Upcoming Windows 8 Tablet
PaidContent,
Nov 17, 2011, 12:23 PM EST
Next Issue Media Expands Beyond Galaxy
PaidContent,
Nov 17, 2011, 9:39 AM EST
Next Issue Media's digital newsstand has added more titles and has expanded beyond the Samsung Galaxy, rolling out on tablets from Motorola, Sony and Toshiba. Link
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A Sneak Peek At USA Network’s Anywhere iPad App
Lost Remote,
Nov 17, 2011, 8:29 AM EST
Amazon, Discovery Settle eReader Patent Spat
PaidContent,
Nov 17, 2011, 8:25 AM EST
Time Inc. Mags Make It To Kindle Fire
All Things Digital,
Nov 16, 2011, 3:38 PM EST
Time Inc. magazines Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, People and Real Simple will be available on Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet. The move followed several weeks of negotiations. Link
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SI Continues Mobile Swing With Golf Magazine App
Mobile Marketer,
Nov 16, 2011, 8:38 AM EST
Ooyala Study
Tablet Users Spend More Time With Video
Ooyala,
Nov 16, 2011, 7:00 AM EST
A new study from online video platform Ooyala found that tablet users averaged nearly 30% more viewing time per play than desktop users, and completed videos at double the desktop rate. The study also found that video plays on connected TVs and game consoles tripled during the third quarter of 2011. Link
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Zinio’s Magazine Newsstand Hits Kindle Fire
TechCrunch,
Nov 15, 2011, 2:49 PM EST
The online newsstand's app rolled out on the new Kindle Fire Tablet and is offering new registrants a $25 credit on any device that can be redeemed across its newsstand through March 2012. Link
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NYT Launches Fashion And Style App
WWD,
Nov 15, 2011, 2:31 PM EST
Netflix Unveils Redesigned Android App
Netflix today launched its redesigned app for Android tablets, as well as Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook. The movie rental service in a blog post this morning said the new design is "more immersive and provides greater focus on the growing number of titles in the Netflix catalog." The company plans to launch a redesigned app for Apple's iPad in the coming weeks.
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NetNewsCheck,
Nov 15, 2011, 2:49 PM EST
AJC Adds iPad 'Digital Combo'; Site Still Free
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is launching a new paid iPad app and digital replica edition that will cost $2.99 per month for print subscribers and $9.99 per month for non-subscribers. Access to the site remains free. Link
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PaidContent,
Nov 14, 2011, 3:51 PM EST
Amazon To Ship Kindle Fire And Touch Early
PaidContent,
Nov 14, 2011, 3:26 PM EST
Bezos: Fire Is Fully Integrated Media Service
Wired,
Nov 14, 2011, 2:23 PM EST
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos on the new Kindle Fire: "What we really built is a fully integrated media service. Hardware is a crucial ingredient in the service, but it’s only a piece of it." Link
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Mediaspace Launches New 'Tablet Network'
MediaPost,
Nov 14, 2011, 8:39 AM EST
Mediaspace Solutions is aggregating 161 newspaper and magazine tablet apps to help advertisers achieve greater scale and reach. The company's partners include: The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News and USA Today. Link
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Kindle Fire Reviews Have Been Lukewarm
PaidContent,
Nov 14, 2011, 7:51 AM EST
Amazon, B&N To Launch Their Own Newsstands
PaidContent,
Nov 14, 2011, 7:43 AM EST
Kindle Fire Will Have Hulu Plus App, Too
PaidContent,
Nov 11, 2011, 3:05 PM EST
RIM Bolsters PlayBook With NewspaperDirect
Troubled mobile device maker Research In Motion has inked a deal with NewspaperDirect to preload the newspaper e-edition distributor's PressReader app on the PlayBook tablet. Link
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PaidContent,
Nov 11, 2011, 2:08 PM EST
Condé Nast Marries Print, iPad Subscriptions In UK
PaidContent,
Nov 10, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
Study: Tablet Users Embrace mCommerce
MediaPost,
Nov 10, 2011, 3:45 PM EST
Some 63% of tablet users make purchases on the device, compared to 83% of PC owners who do the same, according to a new study from Jumptap. Link
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Amazon Fire Setting Stage As Social TV Player
Lost Remote,
Nov 10, 2011, 8:48 AM EST
For Kindle, Brick And Mortar Is Key To Success
GigaOM,
Nov 9, 2011, 3:50 PM EST
Commentary: Minn. Star Tribune Paywall
Paywall, Tablets Not Sure Savior For Strib
MinnPost,
Nov 9, 2011, 8:38 AM EST
AOL Debuts UK, Canada Versions Of Editions
PaidContent,
Nov 9, 2011, 8:12 AM EST
AOL's push into iPad news aggregation — to compete with the likes of Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, Yahoo's Livestand and others — is being taken up a notch today, with the launch of the AOL Editions magazine app in the UK and Canada. Link
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B&N To Launch Nook Tablet On Nov. 16
Engadget,
Nov 4, 2011, 7:47 AM EDT
The Newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand
Aggregators Beating Local News To Tablets
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Nov 3, 2011, 3:29 PM EDT
'WSJ Live' Headed To Google TV, Roku, More
The Wall Street Journal announced it has inked distribution deals with Google TV, Roku, Apple TV and Daily Motion for its video service, WSJ Live, as part of its expansion beyond the iPad. Link
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Lost Remote,
Nov 3, 2011, 1:58 PM EDT
Spanish Android Tablet Maker Beats Apple In Court
PaidContent,
Nov 3, 2011, 8:42 AM EDT
Despite Apple Bruise, FT Digital Subs Up 30%
The Next Web,
Nov 3, 2011, 8:22 AM EDT
The Financial Times, which earlier this year opted to forego Apple's App Store to release its own browser-based app, is seeing the move pay off, as the business publication has announced 30% year-on-year growth in digital subscriber numbers, taking it to a total of a quarter of a million. Link
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Yahoo Launches Livestand News Reader App
Mashable,
Nov 3, 2011, 8:06 AM EDT
Yahoo's Livestand newsreader app officially launched this week. The app allows users to consume news and content from Yahoo and more than 100 other sources. Link
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Yahoo’s IntoNow Hits iPad With Social Perks
NewTeeVee,
Nov 3, 2011, 8:06 AM EDT
Yahoo debuted an iPad version of its social TV mobile app IntoNow on Tuesday. The new app brings in relevant content from Twitter and news sites that complements the TV programming a user is currently checked into. Link
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Time Warner Cable, Viacom Reignite iPad Court War
MediaPost,
Nov 3, 2011, 7:19 AM EDT
TWC iPad App Trumps Hype With Hyperlocal
By refining geo-location, deeply integrating social media and presenting it all with a transmedia-inspired interface — The Weather Channel's app puts the weather closer to being what it always needed to be, hyperlocal. Link
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Forbes,
Nov 2, 2011, 3:12 PM EDT
Zinio Not Threatened By Apple's Newsstand
PaidContent,
Nov 1, 2011, 7:12 AM EDT
Apple's new Newsstand service would appear to pose a threat to 11-year-old digital magazine newsstand Zinio, but according to Zinio CEO Richard Maggiotto, "If you measure by revenue, it hasn’t had any impact. In fact, it’s gone up. We’ve remained No. 1 in 76 countries in the news category.” Link
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IPad Costume A Real 'Hole In One' For Halloween
Gizmodo,
Oct 31, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Something New From Nook, Coming In A Week
All Things Digital,
Oct 31, 2011, 2:57 PM EDT
WSJ: AOL Playing Catch-Up Game In Mobile
NetNewsCheck,
Oct 31, 2011, 2:56 PM EDT
AOL, which is lagging in the mobile race behind rivals Google and Yahoo, is trying to make up ground with new mobile websites and apps and a new head of mobile ad sales, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Full Story
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UK's Independent Debuts Paywall, Paid App
The Wall Blog,
Oct 31, 2011, 8:35 AM EDT
Starting today, users accessing the website of U.K. newspaper The Independent from the United States and Canada will have to pay. The site remains free in the United Kingdom. The newspaper also launched a new app that will cost 19.99 pounds ($32). Link
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Report: Quality Matters Most For Paper Apps
Advertising Age,
Oct 31, 2011, 7:14 AM EDT
Newspaper and magazine apps' quality seems to be the most important factor in their success with consumers, according to the first annual "The State of the App" report from McPheters & Company's iMonitor service, drawing on iMonitor's evaluations of 3,000 apps from publishers around the world. Link
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Commentary
Will Tablets Help Save Newspapers?
Los Angeles Times,
Oct 31, 2011, 7:10 AM EDT
James Rainey on the Philadelphia Media Network’s plan to sell tablets with subscriptions to the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News: “It's admirable, and about time, to see a newspaper company (one that happens to have a proud tradition of public-service journalism) reaching aggressively for new customers. Too many other print publications have dawdled while their core audience moved to their free websites or slipped away entirely.” Link
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Yahoo, Google News Readers Set For Launch
All Things Digital,
Oct 28, 2011, 2:41 PM EDT
Next Wednesday, Yahoo will usher in Livestand, its new news and social reader app. Google is also set to roll out its offering, Google Propeller. Link
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Dennis Publishing's The Week Gets iPad Edition
Campaign,
Oct 28, 2011, 8:16 AM EDT
RIM Delays Release Of Upgraded Tablet Software
Associated Press,
Oct 27, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT
Bloomberg TV Begins Live Streaming To iPad
Mashable,
Oct 27, 2011, 2:57 PM EDT
Bloomberg is bringing its 24-hour live broadcast to the iPad, making it available for free to anyone who owns the Apple tablet. The company did not say when the service would be available for android devices. Link
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Future's CEO Stevie Spring Resigns
Guardian,
Oct 27, 2011, 8:33 AM EDT
Apple Newsstand
Discoverability Vital To Newsstand Success
AudienceDevelopment.com,
Oct 27, 2011, 8:27 AM EDT
Discoverability seems to be the phrase of the month that magazine publishers are using when expressing excitement around Apple's new Newsstand. Link
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Apple Newsstand
Ads Not Keeping Up With Newsstand Surge
PaidContent,
Oct 26, 2011, 8:21 AM EDT
Though many publications have seen a boom in digital edition sales during the first few weeks of Apple's Newsstand, ad sales have yet to take off for tablet editions. Link
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The Daily Adds Two Staffers To Arts & Life Section
Fishbowl NY,
Oct 26, 2011, 8:02 AM EDT
Earnings
Amazon Q3 Net Income Down 73%
Associated Press,
Oct 26, 2011, 7:22 AM EDT
The online retailer's third-quarter net income fell 73% despite revenue growth of 44%. Operating expenses, however, rose 48% during the quarter. Full Story
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Sync Ad Engages Viewers On Second Screen
MediaPost,
Oct 25, 2011, 2:50 PM EDT
A test of synchronized ad creative running in a USA Network ad spot, a Web site, Facebook and a tablet app engaged 23% of the people viewing the ad on second screens. Link
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Shelby.tv Breaks Out Of Beta With iPad App
Lost Remote,
Oct 25, 2011, 12:03 PM EDT
Shelby.tv left private beta this week and rolled out an iPad app that pulls together video that your friends are sharing across Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Link
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New Samsung Tablet Bundled With Social TV App
Lost Remote,
Oct 25, 2011, 10:14 AM EDT
UK's Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads
PaidContent,
Oct 25, 2011, 9:15 AM EDT
JP Morgan: Kindle Fire Expected To Sell 5M In Q4
GigaOM,
Oct 25, 2011, 9:11 AM EDT
Millennial Media Report
IPad Impressions Up 456% Over Past Year
TechCrunch,
Oct 25, 2011, 8:09 AM EDT
Next eReader Innovation: Scrolling e-Ink Web Pages
GigaOM,
Oct 24, 2011, 3:43 PM EDT
Zite Explores How Many People Share Tablets
PaidContent,
Oct 24, 2011, 8:26 AM EDT
Zite, one of several companies building news-reader products for tablets, launched a new feature Friday in response to an internal study that suggests people are sharing tablets within a household. Link
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Why Newsstand Is Boosting Paper App Subs
Poynter,
Oct 24, 2011, 6:34 AM EDT
Jeff Sonderman: "Empty shelves beg to be filled. ... Newsstand exploits this instinct. Its dynamic icon shows what currently rests on your virtual shelves. ... As you fill the first shelf, another empty one appears below it, beckoning you further." Link
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Executive Session with Doug Bennett
OC Register Takes Tablet App To TV Territory
NetNewsCheck,
Oct 24, 2011, 6:34 AM EDT
Android Tablets Gained On IPad In Q3
Bloomberg,
Oct 21, 2011, 3:12 PM EDT
Jessell At Large
Mobile DTV: Would You Believe Xmas 2012?
TVNewsCheck,
Oct 21, 2011, 3:11 PM EDT
It’s looking like it will be at least another year before TV stations will be able to offer over-the-air programming to smartphones, tablets and netbooks. Much progress has been made, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. But broadcasters don't have all the time in the world. They are in a competition with broadband. If broadcasters drag this out too long, the broadband carriers will come up with their own "broadcast" solution and broadcasters won't get their chance. Link
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Amazon May Launch Kindle In Japan This Year
PaidContent,
Oct 21, 2011, 8:13 AM EDT
Weather Channel Releases Social iPad App
Lost Remote,
Oct 20, 2011, 3:56 PM EDT
The Weather Channel today launched its new iPad app that has integrated Twitter and Facebook feeds, as well as the network's own iWitness social platform.
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Kobo Launches Answer To Kindle Fire Tablet
PaidContent,
Oct 20, 2011, 7:49 AM EDT
Netflix Adds Android Support For Honeycomb Tabs
NewTeeVee,
Oct 20, 2011, 7:34 AM EDT
Mags Seeing Boost From Apple Newsstand
PaidContent,
Oct 20, 2011, 6:59 AM EDT
Shortly after launch, the early indications are that Apple's new iOS features have had an immediate beneficial impact for at least two magazine publishers. Link
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The Economist Finally Bows To Apple Terms
PaidContent,
Oct 19, 2011, 2:44 PM EDT
The Economist is finally moving to an iPad strategy compliant with Apple’s new developer terms, after what it calls “iOS bugs” under the new iOS 5 broke its non-compliant app edition. Link
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The Daily Is Apple Newsstand's No. 1 App
Forbes,
Oct 19, 2011, 2:40 PM EDT
Apple's Newsstand app seems to be a boon for publishers, and no one's benefiting from it more than The Daily. News Corp.'s eight-month-old iPad-only publication has been the No. 1 seller in the digital storefront since it launched last week, edging out, in order, National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times and The New Yorker. Link
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Apple Newsstand Gives Publisher A 750% Boost
The Next Web,
Oct 19, 2011, 7:57 AM EDT
ABC iPad Player App Hits 47M Streams Served
MediaPost,
Oct 18, 2011, 2:41 PM EDT
Rodale Launches E-Singles Program
PaidContent,
Oct 18, 2011, 2:31 PM EDT
What Has To Happen For Tabs To Replace Laptops
PaidContent,
Oct 18, 2011, 2:19 PM EDT
Instapaper 4.0 Adds Tablet-Friendly Design
PaidContent,
Oct 17, 2011, 3:41 PM EDT
Motorola Xoom Discounted Again
PaidContent,
Oct 17, 2011, 3:35 PM EDT
Virgin's iPad Mag Reboots With New Owner
PaidContent,
Oct 17, 2011, 8:17 AM EDT
The co-creators of the Virgin-branded iPad magazine Project are merging it with an iPad newsstand service, Other Edition, creating a new company called Virgin Interactive Publishing. Link
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Flipboard Editorial Director Josh Quittner
Ads Need To Go From Nuisance To Service
CNET,
Oct 17, 2011, 8:07 AM EDT
Josh Quittner, the former Time Inc. staffer who is now Flipboard's editorial director, on where Flipboard is headed: "What's not needed is another unsustainable advertising model in new media. What is needed is a really smart way of turning advertising from a nuisance into a service. We have a very real chance of being able to do something like that." Link
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BBC Plans Mobile, Online Olympics Coverage
PaidContent,
Oct 14, 2011, 12:07 PM EDT
The broadcaster wants to make its coverage, totalling 2,500 hours, available to users on the "four screens" of desktop browser, mobile, connected TV and tablet. Link
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IPad 3 Headed Into Production
All Things Digital,
Oct 14, 2011, 9:02 AM EDT
Front Office by Mary Collins
TV And Tablets: The Mobile Future Is Now
TVNewsCheck,
Oct 14, 2011, 8:47 AM EDT
Nielsen Study
40% Of Tablet Owners Use Device, Watch TV
Chicago Tribune,
Oct 13, 2011, 1:04 PM EDT
Report: Paid-Search A Hit With Mobile Users
Paid-search ads targeted at tablet devices provide advertisers with a 37% higher click-through rate compared with desktops, and at a lower average cost, according to the Marin Software Q3 2011 Quarterly Benchmarking Report released today. Link
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MediaPost,
Oct 13, 2011, 1:04 PM EDT
Mobile Gains Steam For At-Home Browsing
A new study from comScore released earlier this week found that smartphones and tablets drive nearly 7% of total digital traffic in the United States. Full Story
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NetNewsCheck,
Oct 12, 2011, 8:34 AM EDT
Facebook Unveils New iPad App
MediaPost,
Oct 11, 2011, 7:53 AM EDT
Facebook Monday took the wraps off its long-awaited iPad app, offering access to popular features like photos and games, as well as new capabilities tailored specifically to the Apple tablet. Link
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New Yorker iPad App Monetizes Old Content
Reuters,
Oct 11, 2011, 7:51 AM EDT
The New Yorker is using its iPad app to deliver a whole new revenue stream from its back issues. The magazine has created several collections of stories from the magazine's print archives — on topics such as baseball, golf and the digital revolution — to sell on the device. Link
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RIM Exec Confident In PlayBook
Associated Press,
Oct 10, 2011, 3:48 PM EDT
Guardian Sets Price For iPad Edition
PaidContent,
Oct 10, 2011, 2:38 PM EDT
U.K. paper The Guardian is about to launch its new iPad edition. The app will be free for the first three months thanks to a sponsorship from broadcaster Channel 4. After the free trial, the app will cost $15.52 for non-print subscribers and free for print subscribers. Link
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Barclays: Kindle Will Outsell Kindle Fire In 2012
PaidContent,
Oct 10, 2011, 8:38 AM EDT
ABC Study:
IPad Promotes Micro-Mobility, Parallel Play
MediaPost,
Oct 7, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT
ABC research into how viewers consume video on the iPad has revealed three emerging trends: micro-mobility (accessing content anywhere), parallel play and marathoning. Also, parents find their kids eager to grab the devices. Link
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Nook Color Gets Dedicated Twitter App
TechCrunch,
Oct 7, 2011, 2:40 PM EDT
10 Things Thoughts On Mobile, Tablet News
Steve Yelvington,
Oct 6, 2011, 1:35 PM EDT
Steve Yelvington on 10 things publishers need to know about news on tablets and mobile phones: "Tablets are cool. Tablets are significant. But phones are cool, too, and smartphone sales dwarf those of the iPad. Take the pocket-size format seriously." Link
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Once Magazine Takes Photo Mag Into App Realm
PBS MediaShift,
Oct 5, 2011, 11:51 AM EDT
Amazon Sells 95K Kindle Fire Units On Day One
PaidContent,
Oct 5, 2011, 11:47 AM EDT
Jumptap Data
Report: Tab Penetration Higher Outside U.S.
PaidContent,
Oct 5, 2011, 11:51 AM EDT
A report from ad network Jumptap says that there may be a higher penetration of tablet users outside the U.S., and overall tablet takeup may actually turn out to be higher than the analysts think. Link
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Ghost Of Hunter Thompson Haunts Daily Story
The New York Observer,
Oct 5, 2011, 8:18 AM EDT
Mag Execs Tout Tablets, Say Print Has Future
Top magazine executives at the American Magazine Conference Tuesday expressed bullishness about the digital opportunities offered by tablet computers, but made clear they feel the traditional printed page has a lot of runway left. Link
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MediaPost,
Oct 5, 2011, 7:56 AM EDT
NYT International Edition Introduces Paid App
The International Herald Tribune, the international editon of The New York Times, has introduced a paid-for digital subscription for access to its iPhone and iPad apps. Link
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MediaWeek,
Oct 4, 2011, 3:24 PM EDT
Apple Introduces Its Newsstand Section
Poynter,
Oct 4, 2011, 2:36 PM EDT
Apple took the wraps off its new Newsstand section for buying and organizing newspaper and magazine apps during its iPhone event earlier today. Newsstand will launch Oct. 12 and will have The New York Times, GQ, Wired and National Geographic as launch partners. Link
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Tablet Boom Coming To India, For As Little As $35
PaidContent,
Oct 3, 2011, 2:22 PM EDT
Yahoo May Launch Its Newsreader This Week
According to PaidContent, Yahoo's Livestand, a mobile web, tablet-focused digital newsreader, may launch this week during the annual Advertising Week event in New York. Link
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PaidContent,
Oct 3, 2011, 11:45 AM EDT
Commentary
Publishers Dream About Kindle's Potential
Monday Note,
Oct 3, 2011, 7:22 AM EDT
Monday Note's Frédéric Filloux: "[Apple and Amazon's] strategies can't be more diametrically opposite. Apple is in the hardware business and all other product lines exist for the sole purpose of raising perceived value and units volume. ... By contrast, Amazon is a digital retail company in which all forms of media account for about 40% of its sales. Its hardware strategy is designed to funnel customers to its retail business." Link
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Clayman: The Daily Has 80K Paying Subs
Advertising Age,
Oct 3, 2011, 7:14 AM EDT
Following last week's Bloomberg report that News Corp.'s The Daily had 120,000 readers per week, the iPad-only newspaper's publisher Greg Clayman told Advertising Age that 80,000 of those readers are paying for the app and 40,000 were on a two-week trial period. Clayman also said that 15% of those who sign up for the trial ultimately subscribe. Link
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Forecast: 15M Kindle Fires Sold By 2013
MediaPost,
Sep 30, 2011, 1:08 PM EDT
According to sales projections from market research firm Strategy Analytics, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is expected to sell 15 million units by 2013. Link
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Kindle Fire Could Ignite Tablet Media Sales
Advertising Age,
Sep 30, 2011, 6:53 AM EDT
By pricing its new Kindle Fire tablet at less than half the cost of an Apple iPad, Amazon is setting up tablet consumption of media to spread more widely and quickly than was previously possible. Link
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Amazon Looks To Take A Bite Out Of Apple
Bloomberg Businessweek,
Sep 29, 2011, 7:03 AM EDT
With the announcement of its new Kindle Fire tablet computer, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is expanding the online bookstore's empire and putting it head-to-head with Apple. Link
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The Daily Trails Murdoch's Goal For Profits
News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily is averaging about 120,000 readers a week, or less than a quarter the number the company said it needs to make money. Link
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Bloomberg,
Sep 29, 2011, 6:46 AM EDT
Amazon Introduces Its iPad Rival
Associated Press,
Sep 28, 2011, 2:35 PM EDT
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today unveiled its answer to Apple's iPad, the $199 Kindle Fire tablet computer. The new device is set to go on sale on Nov. 15. Full Story
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commentary
Papers Can Profit From Tabs...Without News
Editor & Publisher,
Sep 28, 2011, 2:16 PM EDT
Jeff Fleming on how newspapers can profit from tablet apps without using news content: "With large subscription numbers and a diversified advertising base, newspapers are in an ideal position to dominate the buyerlog [a newspaper’s answer to a catalog] market. Subscribers would no longer need to jump from one Web site to another, benefiting from a newspaper's ability to include multiple advertisers in one complete package." Link
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SI Puts Football Rivals On iPhone, iPad
Mashable,
Sep 28, 2011, 8:28 AM EDT
Hearst Passes 300K Monthly Digital Subs
All Things Digital,
Sep 28, 2011, 8:25 AM EDT
Magazine publisher Hearst says it is now racking up more than 300,000 paid digital downloads per month spread out among sales from Apple’s App Store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook and the Zinio digital reader platform. Link
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Time Warner Cable Close To Offering HBO Go
Bloomberg,
Sep 28, 2011, 7:43 AM EDT
Fox Jackson Trial App No. 1 On Apple Charts
TVNewsCheck,
Sep 28, 2011, 7:38 AM EDT
With the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor having begun just this morning, Fox's 99-cent app today ranked No. 1 among paid news apps on the Apple store. In addition to live coverage from the courtroom, the app provides daily highlights, expert analysis, commentary and timelines. The content is being produced by KTTV, the Fox O&O in Los Angeles. Link
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Evri Launches Topic-Based News Reader App
TechCrunch,
Sep 26, 2011, 3:06 PM EDT
Realtime semantic startup Evri is joining apps such as Zite, Flipboard, NewsMix and Pulse in the crowded iPad news magazine field with a new application launched today. Link
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Magazine Execs Psyched Over Color Kindle
Crain's New York Business,
Sep 26, 2011, 8:40 AM EDT
The mere rumors that Amazon.com will bring out a color tablet this fall have gotten magazine publishers more excited than they've been since Apple was preparing to launch the iPad last year. Link
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Comcast Building iPad Streaming Service AnyPlay
MacRumors,
Sep 26, 2011, 8:01 AM EDT
Commentary
App Economy Could Be Killing Online Pubs
GigaOM,
Sep 26, 2011, 7:13 AM EDT
Yaron Galai, CEO and co-founder of Outbrain: "When developing a mobile app, a publisher technically becomes a node within someone else's platform -- namely Apple or Google -- and is bound by their rules and whims. ... Developing an app for someone else's platform might give the illusion of a new marketing channel, but in reality it means becoming a node in someone else's business model." Link
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Dennis Recasts Editorial In 'One Shot' Apps
PaidContent,
Sep 23, 2011, 3:23 PM EDT
Dennis Publishing has signed an agreement with the app platform company Toura to develop 20 further apps for tablets and smartphones, based around content from its stable of publications. Link
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FT Scores With Web-based App
Reuters,
Sep 23, 2011, 3:02 PM EDT
More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store. Link
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Firm Offers Insight Into Tablet Mag Sales
Adweek,
Sep 23, 2011, 3:02 PM EDT
New Jersey-based eMagazines.com has launched with a network of Web sites that is designed to give publishers another outlet to promote their digital editions. Ads for the digital editions will run on the sites, with publishers paying a 20% commission for each sale that's generated by the ad. Bonnier and Meredith are among the companies testing the service. Link
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CBS Puts Paywall On '48 Hours' iPad App
MediaPost,
Sep 22, 2011, 4:02 PM EDT
It doesn't take long for the "free" download of CBS Interactive's "48 Hours Mystery" app for iPad to rush you toward the subscription wall. Without the $4.99 annual fee, the user is met with a preview video clip of the next week's episode and a bonus clip. Beyond that, be prepared to get out your wallet. Link
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Newsonomics of WSJ Live
WSJ Video Product Is 'Its Own Thing'
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Sep 22, 2011, 3:13 PM EDT
Author Ken Doctor on The Wall Street Journal's new streaming tablet product: "WSJ Live, launched last week, is a milestone product. It's not Fox News. It's not CNN. It's not New York Times news video. WSJ Live is its own thing, and a model for the news industry." Link
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Engadget Launches Tablet-Only Magazine
PaidContent,
Sep 22, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
Tab Shipments Exceed Forecasts; Apple Still King
PaidContent,
Sep 22, 2011, 1:49 PM EDT
Zite Personalizes News Content On The iPad
Scobleizer,
Sep 22, 2011, 7:42 AM EDT
Zite CEO Mark Johnson: "One thing that people don’t know about Zite is that we’re almost six years old as a company, so we’ve been developing technology for all this time … so it turns out there’s a lot of great technology under the hood that allows us to figure out exactly the kinds of things you like to read and give you more of it." Link
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PBS To Debut Doc On Apple Mobile Devices
NetNewsCheck,
Sep 21, 2011, 1:51 PM EDT
Prohibition, a new three-part documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, will debut on PBS's iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch apps before its television premiere. Full Story
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BBC To Overhaul Site For 'Swipability'
PaidContent,
Sep 21, 2011, 8:20 AM EDT
The BBC is redesigning its Web site to take account of how users are now "swiping" using touchscreen devices. A beta version of the site launched today. Link
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Sasha Frere-Jones Lightens Duties At The Daily
The New York Observer,
Sep 21, 2011, 6:59 AM EDT
500 To Lose Jobs As Tab Production Ends At HP
PaidContent,
Sep 20, 2011, 3:54 PM EDT
Kindle Gets AmazonLocal Offers
Beginning with the New York market and then migrating to other major cities, AmazonLocal will feed into both the basic special offer Kindle and its 3G cousin deals, which take a virtual page from the Groupon/LivingSocial model. Link
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MediaPost,
Sep 16, 2011, 3:14 PM EDT
WSJ Exec: iPad Has Driven Video Expansion
Beet.tv,
Sep 15, 2011, 11:55 AM EDT
Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor on the paper's new video iPad app: "It's very much about leveraging our journalism. And that's what makes it powerful."
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IDC: eReader Use Up 167%
PaidContent,
Sep 14, 2011, 4:09 PM EDT
FT Launches 'How to Spend It' Mag iPad App
Editor & Publisher,
Sep 13, 2011, 3:50 PM EDT
Commentary
The Android Tablets As Marketing Commodity
Fast Company,
Sep 13, 2011, 3:46 PM EDT
Kit Eaton on Philadelphia News Media's tablet plan: "Who is the Philly news industry trying to appeal to? If it's the iPad generation, then they've failed totally. ... If PNM is trying to appeal to the older generation, who may be wary of the new computing revolution, then it's also not going to work--the device really is no iPad." Link
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Ipsos Study
EReaders Still Beat Tablets Among Wealthy
Advertising Age,
Sep 13, 2011, 8:14 AM EDT
Among the richest Americans (the 20% with incomes of $100,000 or more annually), only 9% have purchased tablet computers, but some 13% own eReaders, according to an Ipsos study. Link
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Amazon Seeks Tablet Content
The Wall Street Journal,
Sep 13, 2011, 7:16 AM EDT
Philly Papers Kick Off Tablet Plan
The Philadelphia Inquirer and sibling paper Philadelphia Daily News' plan to sell discounted tablets containing subscriptions to their digital editions kicks off today. The tablets are Arnova 10 G2 Android devices made by French company Archos. For $285, they will come loaded with the dailies' three paid apps and access to the papers' free site, Philly.com. Link
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Adweek,
Sep 13, 2011, 6:59 AM EDT
Commentary
Downloads Are No Measure For App Success
PaidContent,
Sep 12, 2011, 3:41 PM EDT
Stuart Dredge: "Download numbers are no guide to how much money is being made. They don’t tell you how many apps are being sold, and they can only give an indication of the potential an app has for making money from in-app purchases and/or advertising." Link
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Interactive Fiction Games Come To Kindle
PaidContent,
Sep 9, 2011, 3:08 PM EDT
Kobo Sues To Keep eReader From Borders Buyer
PaidContent,
Sep 8, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT
Why Amazon Tablet Will Challenge Apple
PaidContent,
Sep 6, 2011, 2:12 PM EDT
Amazon Kindle Tablet Is The Real Deal
PaidContent,
Sep 6, 2011, 8:51 AM EDT
Video Demo: Ralph Lauren's NYT Takeover
ClickZ,
Sep 2, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT
ClickZ's Zachary Rodgers gives a demonstration of Ralph Lauren's September month-long sponsorship of The New York Times iPad app.
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FT Will See If HTML5 Can Replace iPad App
GigaOM,
Sep 1, 2011, 7:44 AM EDT
While it may be an oversimplification to talk about HTML5 as a direct competitor to native apps, the Financial Times is about to find out how the two compete in a very real sense. Link
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FT Could Still Make Money From iOS App
PaidContent,
Aug 31, 2011, 3:50 PM EDT
The Financial Times may yet go on making hundreds of thousands of dollars through its existing iOS apps, despite having removed them from iTunes Store on Tuesday. Link
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Ralph Lauren Sponsors NYT iPad App In Sept.
Advertising Age,
Aug 31, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT
Polo Ralph Lauren has bought a solo sponsorship of The New York Times iPad app during September, providing free access to five sections and running ads that, among other things, will provide the only live video of its Fashion Week runway show on Sept. 15. It's the first time a single marketer has bought out the app. Link | Add comment
Publishers Look For What's Next In Tablet Land
WWD,
Aug 31, 2011, 7:27 AM EDT
Letter From Zite CEO Mark Johnson
Zite,
Aug 31, 2011, 7:17 AM EDT
Apple Pulls FT Out Of iTunes Store
Two months after the deadline for compliance hit, it’s now clear The Financial Times and Apple can’t come to a compromise over the new requirement that in-app subscription payments must go through iTunes Store. The paper’s iPad and iPhone apps have been removed from the iTunes Store. Link
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PaidContent,
Aug 30, 2011, 3:39 PM EDT
IPad Sales Accelerate On Faltering Competition
All Things Digital,
Aug 30, 2011, 8:43 AM EDT
Analyst: Amazon Tab Will Be iPad's Top Competitor
Mashable,
Aug 29, 2011, 2:32 PM EDT
Tablet News Readers
Pulse Adds A 'Read It Later' Feature
ReadWriteWeb,
Aug 29, 2011, 2:35 PM EDT
Tablet, eReader Demos Undergo Shift In U.S.
In the third quarter of 2010, 62% of tablet owners were under the age of 34 and only 10% were over the age of 55. By the second quarter of 2011, only 46% of tablet owners were under the age of 34 and the percentage of those over 55 had risen to 19%, according to Nielsen. Link
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Nielsen Wire,
Aug 26, 2011, 2:22 PM EDT
Localytics Study
News Apps Top iPad Users To-Do Lists
Localytics,
Aug 26, 2011, 7:06 AM EDT
Trend Report
Papers Try To Find Ways To Monetize Tablets
MediaWeek,
Aug 24, 2011, 3:54 PM EDT
Pubs Doing Apple End-Run To Deliver To iPad
PBS MediaShift,
Aug 24, 2011, 3:10 PM EDT
Instead of building native apps in iOS, the proprietary operating system for the iPad and other Apple devices, publishers are using HTML5 in an effort to avoid Apple's rules and restrictions that limit what they can do and how much they can earn. Link
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Hulu Plus Coming To Vizio’s 8-Inch Android Tablet
PaidContent,
Aug 24, 2011, 2:52 PM EDT
Report: Tablet Growth Bad News For Print
PCMag.com ,
Aug 24, 2011, 7:22 AM EDT
A new report from RISI, a company that monitors the paper industry, predicts that tablet and eReader sales will hit 195 million units by 2015, and paper use for print media including magazines, newspapers, and books will have declined by as much as 21%. Link
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Think Optics Launches New iWavit TVAid App
NetNewsCheck,
Aug 23, 2011, 4:05 PM EDT
Time Inc. Launches Four Mags On Nook Color
Time Inc. is expanding its magazines' presence on the Nook Newsstand. Starting today, print subscribers to Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated and Time will be able to read the Nook editions of those magazines for free (as they can on the iPad and other tablets). Time Inc. plans to make the rest of its 21 U.S. magazines available through Nook Color by the end of the year. Link
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PaidContent,
Aug 23, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Samsung Cites Kubrick's '2001' In Patent Case
All Things Digital,
Aug 23, 2011, 3:19 PM EDT
In a brief opposing Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States, Samsung argues that one of the iPad design patents at issue in the case is predated by a prop used in Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Link
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CNN Buying News Reader Zite For $25M
Techvibes,
Aug 23, 2011, 7:42 AM EDT
Personalized news reader Zite is in the process of being acquired by CNN for $20-25 million. Link
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Nielsen To Measure iPad Viewing For Cable
Broadcast Engineering,
Aug 23, 2011, 6:53 AM EDT
In a project still in the “R&D stage,” Nielsen has begun to measure cable television subscriber viewing habits on Apple’s iPad tablet for Time Warner Cable and Cablevision. Two undisclosed media companies are working with Nielsen to measure iPad viewership. Link
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Mags Bet On Apps -- But Will It Pay Off?
The Wrap,
Aug 22, 2011, 1:50 PM EDT
Though digital subscription numbers remain miniscule and revenue is yet to materialize, magazine companies are betting heavily that tablet editions are the way of the future. Link
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Reader’s Digest Subscriptions Come To The iPad
PaidContent,
Aug 18, 2011, 3:20 PM EDT
HBO Go Shakes Up The Streaming TV Scene
PBS MediaShift,
Aug 18, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
With nearly 4 million downloads of the HBO Go mobile app since May, the company has blazed its own trail in the digital entertainment frontier. The company's embrace of the TV Everywhere model, bolstered by the rise of tablets, has propelled other networks to follow suit and once again flip the switch on the video streaming business. Link
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DoApp Launches News Platform For iPad
NetNewsCheck,
Aug 18, 2011, 7:46 AM EDT
DoApp has rolled out a new version of its Mobile Local News platform designed for Apple's iPad. New features include live animated weather radar, push notifications, as well as integrated personal Facebook and Twitter posts and feeds. Full Story
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Does Cinemax App Violate Apple No-Porn Rule?
NewTeeVee,
Aug 15, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
How Media Cos. Play With Apple's Rules
All Things Digital,
Aug 11, 2011, 9:04 AM EDT
Les than two months into Apple's new subscription rules, a picture is emerging of how media companies are responding to the change: Some have accepted Apple’s terms and will be giving Apple a big chunk of their subscription revenue; Many have removed any kind of e-commerce link from their apps; and others have built their own Web apps that will work on Apple devices without requiring the company’s approval. Link
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Commentary
What Comes After Reading On iPad
Subtraction.com,
Aug 10, 2011, 2:36 PM EDT
Khoi Vinh: "I think it’s still too early to know exactly how these devices are going to shape the next ten years. We’re all still discovering and exploring how different a multitouch tablet is from laptops and desktops." Link
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Amazon Shows Media Cos. Web's Future
GigaOM,
Aug 10, 2011, 2:36 PM EDT
Amazon has released a browser-based version of its Kindle e-book app in what appears to be an attempt to detour around Apple's in-app purchasing requirements. But the company has also provided an example of how media companies should be looking beyond the world of apps to the future of the Web. Link
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Star Tribune Launches New iPad App
NetNewsCheck,
Aug 10, 2011, 8:57 AM EDT
The Minnesota newspaper starting in October will also convert print ads to digital for advertisers who purchase a half-page or larger full-run print ad in the newspaper. Full Story
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Commentary
Tribune Tablet Plan 'A Waste Of Money'
PaidContent,
Aug 10, 2011, 7:53 AM EDT
Tom Krazit on Tribune's reported plans to create an Android-based tablet that would be distributed with subscriptions to its newspapers: "[The tablet will be] a colossal waste of money for a company trying to emerge from bankruptcy. ... Even though this is still a brand-new market it’s hard to imagine that a media company has the design knowledge and insight to make a dent in the tablet market." Link
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PressReader App For PlayBook Launches
NetNewsCheck,
Aug 9, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
Newspaper and magazine reader app PressReader hit BlackBerry's App World as a free download for the PlayBook tablet computer. Full Story
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GfK MRI Study
Ads More Effective On Tablets Than eReaders
MediaPost,
Aug 9, 2011, 12:12 PM EDT
Some 55% of consumers who read magazines on tablet devices said they "noted" a magazine ad displayed on their devices, compared to just 41% for consumers with e-readers, according to a new study by GfK MRI's Starch Advertising Research. Link
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Nook Buyers Getting $100 Of Free Classic Books
CNET,
Aug 9, 2011, 8:59 AM EDT
Tribune Co. Developing A Tablet Device
CNN,
Aug 9, 2011, 8:49 AM EDT
The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on an Android-based touchscreen tablet that it plans to offer to newspaper subscribers, according to people briefed on the plans. The company plans to offer the tablet for free, or at a highly subsidized price, to people who sign up for extended subscriptions to one of its papers and possibly a wireless-data plan with a partner cellular carrier. Link
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Why Isn’t Kindle Promoting Its Social Features?
PaidContent,
Aug 8, 2011, 3:26 PM EDT
New Yorker Launches Entertainment Listings App
All Things Digital,
Aug 8, 2011, 2:44 PM EDT
'Editions' Missed Memo About AOL Way
Fast Company,
Aug 8, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
AOL's new iPad magazine Editions pulls content from around the Web, not just AOL, counter to the company's efforts to boost traffic for its own content. Link
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Magazine Publishers Cast Wide Tablet Net
The Wall Street Journal,
Aug 8, 2011, 7:16 AM EDT
As magazine companies create tablet versions for more of their titles, they are looking for alternatives to Apple's iPad in an effort to improve their negotiating power with the company, which has strict rules about selling apps for the device. Link
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Commentary
The Stupidity Of Our Current Media Age
SteveOuting.com,
Aug 8, 2011, 7:08 AM EDT
Steve Outing on forcing customers to purchase a print subscription to get an iPad subscription: "It pisses me off that in this media transition that we find ourselves in, print publishers resort to discouraging the digital transition and encouraging subscribers to continue receiving a product that consumes physical resources (trees) and pollutes the environment (trucks and delivery)." Link
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FAA Looks Into The Daily's Unmanned Aircraft
Forbes,
Aug 5, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT
Guardian Into E-Singles With Phone-Hacking eBook
PaidContent,
Aug 5, 2011, 2:29 PM EDT
Pubs Find Ways To Handle Apple Sub Rules
PaidContent,
Aug 3, 2011, 3:58 PM EDT
Apple’s deadline for app owners to run content subscriptions through iTunes or not at all may have passed on June 30, but compliance is emerging unevenly -- or not at all. Link
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Time Inc. To Add Tablet Editions For All Mags
PaidContent,
Aug 3, 2011, 3:55 PM EDT
few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. is working on creating tablet editions for its entire roster of 21 titles by the end of 2011. Link
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IPad Nabs Axel Springer 134K Daily Digital Readers
PaidContent,
Aug 3, 2011, 3:51 PM EDT
AOL Seeks To Master Digital Mag Experience
Poynter,
Aug 3, 2011, 2:46 PM EDT
AOL's Editions is another attempt at a mass-market iPad news app, but the company is later to hit the market than several similar competitors, and has taken that extra time to learn from successful apps and incorporate the best ideas with their own new approaches. Link
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Atlantic App Unifies Brand, Diversifies Sub Strategy
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Aug 2, 2011, 3:15 PM EDT
Conde Nast Sales: Digital 1.3% Of Total Circ
Adweek,
Aug 2, 2011, 2:12 PM EDT
Conde Nast, which this week announced that it has garnered 242,000 digital customers through Apple's iTunes store in the six weeks since it introduced iPad subs, said the results were better than expected in many cases. But the digital editions are only a tiny amount -- 1.3% -- of the company's total print circulation. Link
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Conde Nast Nabs 240K Downloads Since May
PaidContent,
Aug 2, 2011, 8:44 AM EDT
Condé Nast has managed to attract 242,000 digital edition customers within a six-week period after introducing subscriptions on Apple’s App Store in May. That number includes digital subscriptions, digital single copies, and the 136,000 print subscribers who have opted to add digital editions to their subscriptions. Link
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Inside SI: Building A Mag For The Digital Age
Mashable,
Aug 2, 2011, 8:06 AM EDT
Among magazines, Sports Illustrated has emerged as a leader in the digital age. And its numbers support the digital push. Sports Illustrated‘s digital revenue was up 22% between 2009 and 2010, and it is on track for double-digit growth again this year, according to the magazine. Link
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Penguin Sees 14% Of Sales From E-books
PaidContent,
Jul 29, 2011, 7:39 AM EDT
Affinity's American Magazine Study
Mobile Device Use Divided By Generations
MediaPost,
Jul 28, 2011, 2:37 PM EDT
New findings from media research firm Affinity suggest the growing range of connected gadgets entering the mainstream are attracting distinct audiences. The way it breaks down: E-readers are for baby boomers, PC tablets for Gen Xers, and smartphones for millennials. Link
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IPad 3 Might Get November Release
Business Insider,
Jul 28, 2011, 8:21 AM EDT
Nook For iPad To Offer More Than 175 Digital Mags
Folio,
Jul 27, 2011, 2:59 PM EDT
News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal
News Corp.'s Daily Avoids The Scandal
The New York Observer,
Jul 27, 2011, 7:31 AM EDT
One News Corp. property that has flown under the radar throughout company's recent melodramas is The Daily -- the tablet newspaper launched to great fanfare in the basement of the Guggenheim in February. Link
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Kobo Releases HTML5 App
PaidContent,
Jul 26, 2011, 4:08 PM EDT
Tablet Publishing
Sports Illustrated Looks Beyond The iPad
Mashable,
Jul 26, 2011, 3:19 PM EDT
Sports Illustrated is investing time and money to create interactive versions of its magazine for Apple's iPad. But SI isn't stopping there: It is also producing different weekly versions for other less-popular tablets. Sports Illustrated Group editor Terry McDonell: “We’re placing bets across the table, because we don’t know where we’re going to be in 18 months. But [other tablet platforms] are going to grow.” Link
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Creating a DIY Hyperlocal On With Flipboard
Street Fight,
Jul 26, 2011, 12:44 PM EDT
Ted Mann, digital development director for Gannett N.J.: "It's tough to remember the exact moment that I became enamored with the idea of launching a hyperlocal Web site ... But it was this Flipboard moment, when I created a Haddonfield magazine in about 5 minutes, that I realized just how misguided my attempts to build a hyperlocal blog network probably were." Link
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Companies Rethink App Strategies
Wired,
Jul 26, 2011, 7:46 AM EDT
As publishers begin to sidestep Apple's rules on in-app purchases to avoid the company's 30% cut, developers and customers will see learn exactly what that means for them. Link
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WSJ, Kobo Stop In-App Content Sales
The Wall Street Journal,
Jul 25, 2011, 7:04 AM EDT
In a pair of moves that suggest Apple Inc. is enforcing rules for selling content on its devices, The Wall Street Journal and Canadian e-book retailer Kobo Inc. said Sunday they will no longer sell content directly to customers through their apps for Apple devices. Link
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Flipboard Runs First Ads With Condé Nast
PaidContent,
Jul 25, 2011, 6:49 AM EDT
Users who follow The New Yorker magazine's Twitter and Facebook stream through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, beginning with a campaign by American Express, are part of a deal with the magazine's publisher, Condé Nast, which will be working with Flipboard on ads for Wired and Bon Appétit and other titles over the course of the year. Link
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Vinh: Pubs Should Develop For Mobile Web
The New York Observer,
Jul 22, 2011, 2:17 PM EDT
Former NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh says publishers need to start developing content for mobile Web sites rather than taking a print-centric approach to tablet design. Link
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Commentary
Is TapIn The Future Of Hyperlocal?
Street Fight,
Jul 22, 2011, 1:21 PM EDT
Alex Salkever: "[Tackable is] the targeting mechanism for the slimmed down professional journalist cadre, a streamlined newsfinding machine that can point folks on the desk to where coverage should be allocated at that instant." Link
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The Daily Debuts Update; Teams With Spotify
PaidContent,
Jul 22, 2011, 7:13 AM EDT
News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily this week launched a new edition that erases some of the biggest complaints about the iPad publication. The Daily has also team with Spotify as one of the streaming music site's U.S. launch partners. Link
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Canada's Postmedia Launches HP TouchPad Apps
Editor & Publisher,
Jul 21, 2011, 6:57 AM EDT
Conde Nast Tablet Plans Hit Some Snags
The New York Observer,
Jul 20, 2011, 3:43 PM EDT
NYT App Suffers From Technical Problems
Poynter,
Jul 20, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
The New York Times iPad app has suffered from technical issues since the app was updated several weeks ago. Link
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Industry Seeks New Tablet Ad Metrics
eMedia Vitals,
Jul 20, 2011, 3:17 PM EDT
Media executives at Tuesday's Clean Slate conference in New York emphasized the need for new measurements for user engagement on digital platforms. Link
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Tabs, Smartphones, eReaders Fuel Growth
MediaPost,
Jul 19, 2011, 8:52 AM EDT
The Consumer Electronics Association is predicting the industry will have stronger-than-anticipated sales growth this year, thanks to tablets, smartphones and ereaders. Link
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News Orgs Use Trends, Archives For eBooks
Poynter,
Jul 19, 2011, 8:12 AM EDT
As more people buy ereaders and download books through digital stores, some news organizations are finding they can capitalize on their expertise and archives of information by quickly publishing ebooks related to big stories. Link
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Amazon Announces Kindle Textbook Rental
PaidContent,
Jul 18, 2011, 4:11 PM EDT
BeeTV Integrates Social TV Into New Apps
Lost Remote,
Jul 18, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
IDG Global Survey
Smartphone, Tablet Use Growing Worldwide
NetNewsCheck,
Jul 15, 2011, 3:42 PM EDT
More than two-thirds of the respondents to IDG Global's latest survey said they use a smartphone for personal (73%) or business (69%) purposes, 67% said they were planning on buying a tablet computer. Full Story
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Sony Back In eReader Fray With New Readers
TechCrunch,
Jul 14, 2011, 8:59 AM EDT
Amazon To Release Android Tablet This Fall
The Wall Street Journal,
Jul 13, 2011, 4:10 PM EDT
Latest Tablet Mag Will Be All About Tablets
PaidContent,
Jul 13, 2011, 4:07 PM EDT
TabTimes, a new magazine about tablet news and put out by tech vets that can only be read on the iPad, will launch this fall as an iPad app. Link
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Location-Based News Service Launches In SF
Street Fight,
Jul 13, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
Location-based photojournalism platform Tackable has partnered with The California Newspapers Partnership and the San Jose Mercury News to create an iPad app called TapIn, which allows users to view news stories, coupons, business listings, services, events, images and video on top of a dynamic location-aware map. Link
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Philly Papers To Sell Tablets To Boost Digital
Adweek,
Jul 11, 2011, 4:03 PM EDT
The Philadelphia Inquirer and its sibling Philadelphia Daily News plan to announce a pilot program under which they will sell Android tablets with their content already built in at a discount. Link
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Apple To Add Second iPad Manaufacturer
9 to 5 Mac,
Jul 11, 2011, 8:18 AM EDT
Cosmopolitan To Launch 'Cosmo For Guys' App
The New York Times,
Jul 11, 2011, 6:55 AM EDT
Time Warner Cable Releases Updated iPad App
Time Warner Cable Untangled,
Jul 8, 2011, 8:24 AM EDT
'IPad HD' Could Hit Market In Fall
This Is My Next...,
Jul 8, 2011, 7:45 AM EDT
Kindle NYT Subs Finally Get Digital Access
PaidContent,
Jul 7, 2011, 4:01 PM EDT
Over three months after announcing that Kindle New York Times subscribers would "soon" have free access to NYTimes.com the way print subscribers do, Amazon is providing that access. Link
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Glitch Interrupts Access To NYT iPad App
Network World,
Jul 6, 2011, 7:02 AM EDT
Many New York Times iPad subscribers have been unable to access the paper's articles since Friday, when an update pushed through Apple's App Store rendered the application unable to display content. Link
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GfK MRI Study
Women Like EReaders, Men Like Tablets
BizCommunity.com,
Jul 5, 2011, 3:57 PM EDT
According to the latest consumer research from GfK MRI, women are 52% more likely than men to own an eReader and men are 24% more likely than women to own a tablet. Link
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Conde Nast VP: Teaming With Apple Matters
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Jul 5, 2011, 2:45 PM EDT
Scott Dadich, Conde Nast's vice president of digital magazine development, says partnering with Apple is a necessary element of digital experimentation. Link
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IPad Generates 1% Of World's Web Traffic
All Things Digital,
Jul 5, 2011, 8:30 AM EDT
According to Net Applications' latest NetMarketShare report, more than 1% of all global Web browsing occurs on an iPad. And in the United States, the percentage rises to 2.1%. Link
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NYT Enables In-App Subs For iPad, iPhone
Macstories,
Jul 4, 2011, 10:37 AM EDT
The New York Times late last week released an update for its iPad and iPhone apps that allows users to purchase in-app subscriptions for content behind its paywall. Link
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Personalized News
Flipboard Adds Guide For Curated Browsing
TechCrunch,
Jun 30, 2011, 3:40 PM EDT
Flipboard's new version, launched today, includes a content guide that provides curated news browsing. The 1.5 version of the tablet app has also integrated LinkedIn.
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Forrester Research
32% Of Tablet Owners Dump Print Papers
TechZone360,
Jun 30, 2011, 3:05 PM EDT
Some 32% of U.S. tablet owners reported that they read p[rinted newspapers less often, while 23 percent indicated they use print magazines less, according to a Forrester Research survey. Link
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Next Issue Media Build Up Its Storefront
PaidContent,
Jun 30, 2011, 6:59 AM EDT
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is adding six titles to its digital storefront on the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy as it unveils an integrated app that allows users to keep their digital reads from any participating magazine in a single place. Link
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Oprah Book Recommendations Move To 'O' App
PaidContent,
Jun 29, 2011, 8:48 AM EDT
Why Is WashPo's iPad App Still Free?
Poynter,
Jun 28, 2011, 3:28 PM EDT
When The Washington Post released its iPad app in November, the company said it would be free until mid-February. That date passed more than four months ago, yet the app and content are still available for free in the iTunes Store. Link
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Pew Research
EReader Growth Outpaces Tablets Since Nov.
NetNewsCheck,
Jun 28, 2011, 8:29 AM EDT
The percentage of adults who own an eReader -- such as Amazon's Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook -- hit 12% in May, doubling since last November, according to new research from the Pew Internet Project. Adoption of the device's more connected cousin, the tablet computer, has only grown 3% during the same period. The full report can be found here.
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ABC News, Vook Team On Mobile Products
Beet.tv,
Jun 27, 2011, 7:42 AM EDT
ABC News is working with Vook to produce multimedia offerings of text and video reporting around major news events in the form of a video book, or "vook," for the Apple iOS devices, Android and Nook Color.
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HBO Go App Sees Big Growth
CNET,
Jun 27, 2011, 7:31 AM EDT
HBO expected its HBO Go mobile app to reach 3 million downloads this weekend, which would mean that about 10% of the network's subscribers had downloaded the app. Link
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Cablevision Weighs In On iPad Debate
MediaPost,
Jun 24, 2011, 2:24 PM EDT
Advertising Platforms Cater To Tablets
MediaPost,
Jun 24, 2011, 2:09 PM EDT
Mixpo has released a platform that lets brand advertisers deploy video campaigns on tablets. Through a Web-based studio, publishers can add interactive pieces to the campaign and tailor the tablet ads based on geography, time of day or message sequencing. Link
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NBC Intros New NBC.com iPad App
TVNewsCheck,
Jun 24, 2011, 1:24 PM EDT
NBC launched the NBC.com App for iPad on the App Store Thursday, giving fans access to content from their favorite NBC shows and features such as customization, thousands of video clips and highlights including popular SNL digital shorts from the past. Link
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App Store's Top Magazine Money Makers
Min Online,
Jun 24, 2011, 8:02 AM EDT
Apple's App Store is giving the magazines that opt-in to its subscription model high visibility. Still, the top print publication app, from New York Post, is No. 11 on the list of top grossing apps. Link
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Viacom Files iPad Suit Against Cablevision
PaidContent,
Jun 23, 2011, 3:41 PM EDT
Viacom, which yesterday put its lawsuit with Time Warner Cable on hold, has filed a fresh lawsuit over iPad streaming -- this one against Cablevision. Link
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Tablet-Owner Ranks To Double By Next Year
Lost Remote,
Jun 23, 2011, 3:55 PM EDT
The Online Publishers Association new study released yesterday found that 12% of the U.S. Internet population (ages 8-64) owns or uses a tablet, and that number is expected to jump to 23% by early next year. Link
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HP To Launch Digital Mag With New Tablet
PCMag.com ,
Jun 23, 2011, 2:59 PM EDT
In an effort to differentiate its upcoming TouchPad tablet from competitors like the iPad and Android tablets, HP today announced that it would launch a digital magazine -- called HP Pivot -- to accompany the device, made to showcase apps for the operating system, webOS 3.0. Link
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Viacom, Time Warner Reach Standstill In iPad War
PaidContent,
Jun 23, 2011, 8:08 AM EDT
Online Publishers Association Study
Tablet Owners Avoid Newspaper Paid Apps
NetNewsCheck,
Jun 22, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
While 79% of tablet users have paid for apps in the past year, only 11% of them paid for newspaper apps, according to OPA's latest study released today. Full Story
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B&N: E-books Outsell Print Books 3 To 1 On BN.com
PaidContent,
Jun 22, 2011, 8:42 AM EDT
Consumer Reports Picks Nook Over Kindle
Consumer Reports,
Jun 22, 2011, 8:41 AM EDT
Onswipe To Media: Pick Web Over Apps
GigaOM,
Jun 22, 2011, 8:22 AM EDT
OnSwipe CEO Jason Baptiste is hoping publishers choose his company's HTML5 solution as an alternative to Apple's walled app garden. Link
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DARPA-Born Trapit Enters Newsreader Fray
ReadWriteWeb,
Jun 21, 2011, 1:20 PM EDT
Trapit, which spun out of DARPA's research project CALO (Cognitive Assistant That Learns and Organizes), is launching its next-generation newsreader this week. The service scours the Web to index an average of 5,000 sources each day, then puts it through a quality control process that concludes with human editorial judgement. Link
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Onswipe Helps Create iPad Friendly Sites
Poynter,
Jun 21, 2011, 1:20 PM EDT
Onswipe, launched today, helps news publishers easily set up a tablet-friendly version of their Web sites for iPad users and will help sell premium ads on those sites. Link
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Managing Editor Picton Leaves The Daily
PaidContent,
Jun 20, 2011, 3:31 PM EDT
Pete Picton, managing editor for the News Corp.'s The Daily, has left the iPad-only newspaper to become deputy publisher of the Mail Online. Another Daily managing editor, Jim Gaines, left the publication earlier this year. Link
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Kindle Creates Its First Million-Selling Indie Author
TechCrunch,
Jun 20, 2011, 2:33 PM EDT
Hulu Falls In Line With New Apple Rules
All Things Digital,
Jun 20, 2011, 2:39 PM EDT
Video site Hulu has stripped out the link that sent potential subscribers to its Web site in order to conform with Apple's new rules that ban such links. Link
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Time Spent On Apps Outpaces Web
MediaPost,
Jun 20, 2011, 2:39 PM EDT
According to a new study by analytics and advertising firm Flurry, time spent with mobile apps per day per person reached an average of 81 minutes compared to 74 minutes on the Web. Link
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Consumers Don't Want Tablets, They Want iPads
All Things Digital,
Jun 20, 2011, 8:46 AM EDT
NY Post Blocks iPad Access Via Safari
ARS Technica,
Jun 20, 2011, 8:35 AM EDT
The New York Post has started blocking access to its Web site on Apple's iPad as a way to encourage those customers to purchase the newspaper's app in the App Store. Link
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Hearst's Meigs Is Making Magazine Apps Pay
Business Insider,
Jun 17, 2011, 3:31 PM EDT
FT Adds 100,000 Users After HTML5 Launch
Folio,
Jun 17, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
In the week after the launch of its Apple-busting HTML5 app, the Financial Times said that it has signed up 100,000 users for the app during the brief period. Link
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SI Shows Advantage Of Tablet Editions
Business Insider,
Jun 16, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
With the end of the NBA and NHL finals this week, Sports Illustrated will for the first time ever update its tablet edition in the middle of the week. "Being able to react to the news [on a tablet] is something we were looking forward to being able to do," editor of the Sports Illustrated Group Terry McDonell said. Link
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More Sites Tailored To iPad Than Android
MediaPost,
Jun 16, 2011, 8:19 AM EDT
Acer Cuts 2011 Tablet Shipment Target By 60%
Reuters,
Jun 15, 2011, 12:25 PM EDT
Digital Subs Will Lift Mags, But Not Papers
Forbes,
Jun 15, 2011, 7:38 AM EDT
Newspaper and magazine publishers are banking on tablet-based electronic editions and paywalls to bring in digital subscriptions and help offset the erosion in circulation revenue. But PricewaterhouseCoopers' latest annual media outlook suggests that it may be the right course for magazines but not for newspapers. Link
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BBC iPlayer Global Launch To Start In W. Europe
PaidContent,
Jun 14, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT
Fargo Paper Experiments With eReaders
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Jun 14, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT
The Forum of Fargo (N.D.)-Moorhead (Minn.), a 50,000-circulation daily newspaper, has rolled out a seven-part feature on Microsoft's presence in the midwest on Amazon's Kindle. Link
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New iPad Project Springs From Project Alesia
PaidContent,
Jun 14, 2011, 3:01 PM EDT
The development team which had led News Corp.'s Project Alesia in London has formed their own company which is offering its own suite for building iPad magazines and newspapers. Link
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Flipboard Founder McCue On His Early Years
TechCrunch,
Jun 10, 2011, 2:22 PM EDT
FT: We Won’t Publish A ‘Dumb’ iPad App
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Jun 9, 2011, 3:42 PM EDT
IPad Has Slim Lead In Ad Interaction Rates
MediaPost,
Jun 9, 2011, 3:35 PM EDT
When it comes to comparing the engagement of in-app ads on tablets and smartphones, rich media banners on the iPad had an interaction rate of 8% compared to 7% for other iOS and Android mobile devices -- primarily smartphones -- according to a new study from Medialets. Link
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Hearst Opens 'Think Tank' For Digital Apps
Adweek,
Jun 9, 2011, 3:09 PM EDT
Hearst Corp. has opened the Hearst App Lab, a "think tank" where employees can learn about the tablet market, develop apps, and brainstorm ideas with advertisers and ad buyers. Hearst will also use it to test its apps with focus groups. Link
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Apple Digital Subscription Plan
Apple Sends Pubs Conflicting Signals
Poynter,
Jun 9, 2011, 2:55 PM EDT
Jeff Sonderman: "Many in the news media have been calling for an 'iTunes for news,' but now that we have one, and it is actually part of iTunes, will we like it?" Link
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Apple Digital Subscription Plan
Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subs
MacRumors,
Jun 9, 2011, 2:55 PM EDT
Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. The company has removed requirements that a subscription be the "same price or less than it is offered outside the app" and that external subscriptions must be offered as an in-app purchase. Link
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Microsoft Mulls Building Its Own Windows 8 Tab
PaidContent,
Jun 9, 2011, 8:11 AM EDT
Small Mags Seek App Development Solutions
PBS MediaShift,
Jun 8, 2011, 2:48 PM EDT
Small publishers are turning to external app development companies, hoping that outsourcing their apps will lead to better results at a lower cost. Link
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WSJ Claims 200K Mobile Subscribers
Beet.tv,
Jun 8, 2011, 2:32 PM EDT
Wall Street Journal Digital Network general manager Alisa Bowen says the newspaper has attracted some 200,000 subscriptions to its mobile and tablet applications, in addition to the more than 1 million subscribers to the paper's digital edition.
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Yellowbook Launches Android Tablet App
BIA/Kelsey,
Jun 8, 2011, 8:19 AM EDT
New Financial Times App Bypasses Apple
All Things Digital,
Jun 7, 2011, 3:47 PM EDT
The Financial Times, an outspoken opponents of Apple's new iTunes subscription rules, has created an HTML5-based Web app that lets it deliver the paper to iPad and iPhone users, and sell them subscriptions, without going through iTunes. Link
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WRAL Releases New Weather App
NetNewsCheck,
Jun 7, 2011, 2:56 PM EDT
Raleigh-Durham TV station WRAL has launched a new weather app for Apple mobile devices and has redesigned and added content to its mobile Web site. Full Story
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Commentary
Tablets May Not Be Newspapers' Saviors
Guardian,
Jun 6, 2011, 7:28 AM EDT
Peter Preston: "Is news a driving force on pads and smartphones? No: Apple's iTunes Store approved its 500,000th app the other day and only 3% of them fall into a category you can call news -- far, far behind games (15%), books (14%) and general entertainment (11%). In short, news sampled this way is an also-ran. ... At root, the statistics show the priorities of tablet use." Link
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OC Register iPad App Takes Different Path
Poynter,
Jun 3, 2011, 2:03 PM EDT
The Orange County Register's new iPad app,set for a formal launch on Tuesday, June 7, is taking a novel approach. Rather than simply copying the newspaper's print edition, the app, which publishes in the evening, is tailored to the demographics and behaviors of tablet users and limits its scope to a handful of the most-desidered topics. Link
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Pulse.me Launches Save-It-For-Later App
NetNewsCheck,
Jun 3, 2011, 7:33 AM EDT
Alphonso Labs has launched Pulse.me, a new way for news buffs to save stories for later consumption on their iPads, iPhones or Android devices. Pulse.me also includes a Web component that will allow users to browse their saved stories on the Web, as well as their mobile devices.
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BBC: Over 10M Apps Downloaded Worldwide
Beet.tv,
Jun 3, 2011, 7:16 AM EDT
BBC Worldwide digital directorDainel Heaf says the service has logged over 10 million apps worldwide for the iPad and other devices. The total includes Apps for travel guides, magazines, games and news.
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Reports Find Long Road Ahead For Tablets
PaidContent,
Jun 1, 2011, 4:13 PM EDT
Two reports released today suggest that the tablet revolution hasn't quite taken hold yet. Research firm NPD found that tablet sales are not cutting into PC sales, while J.P. Morgan reports that many tablet manufacturers are cutting their production schedules for 2011. Link
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Nomad Editions Launching 7 iPad Mags
PaidContent,
Jun 1, 2011, 3:52 PM EDT
Mark Edmiston, CEO of Nomad Editions -- which already offers five weekly iPad magazines -- says the company has seven to eight new digital magazines in the works. Link
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Esquire Tries Non-Magazine iPad App
All Things Digital,
Jun 1, 2011, 8:25 AM EDT
Magazines are starting to take a different approach to the iPad: selling apps that aren't magazines. Esquire is the latest to test the strategy, launching its new "Hardest Puzzle Ever" app. Link
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Retailers Offer Apps With A Catalog Feel
The New York Times,
Jun 1, 2011, 7:31 AM EDT
Fox News Launches An iPad App
Lost Remote,
Jun 1, 2011, 6:48 AM EDT
Fox News yesterday rolled out a free iPad app. The new app has a section for breaking news, as well as top stories, Fox News programs and a build-your-own video playlist. It also features a scrolling news ticker along the bottom of the screen and a customizable weather page. Link
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Zinio Digi Newsstand Enters Android World
Folio,
May 31, 2011, 4:07 PM EDT
Zinio, the digital newsstand that has previously been available for Apple iOS users, has launched a version for devices based on Google's Android platform. To drum up interest from Droid users, when Zinio is downloaded before June 15, users will automatically receive 24 free magazine issues. Link
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Commentary
Jann Wenner Is Wrong About Tablets
Forbes,
May 31, 2011, 3:34 PM EDT
Jeff Bercovici: "From any other publisher, these views would come across as mere cluelessness or head-in-the-sand-ism. Coming out of Wenner’s mouth, they’re more like self-parody. No other publisher has been so willing to assert, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that the digital poses no true threat to print, that the Web is something that can safely be ignored." Link
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SF Chronicle Rolls Out iPad App
San Francisco Chronicle,
May 31, 2011, 2:56 PM EDT
The San Francisco Chronicle today launched a new daily iPad edition that will provide breaking news and live updates throughout the day. The San Francisco Shutter Co. is sponsoring free access to the app for 30 days. After the promo period, Chronicle subscribers will be able to use the app for free, while new readers can purchase subscriptions for $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year. Link
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'NBC Nightly News' Debuts iPad App
TVnewser,
May 31, 2011, 2:56 PM EDT
NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams has launched a new iPad app that allows users to view the entire Nightly News broadcast, individual segments, and exclusive online video, as well as to read Williams’ blog. Link
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ESPN App Lets Viewers Watch Live Events
Mobile Marketer,
May 31, 2011, 8:27 AM EDT
ESPN is letting Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Verizon FiOs TV subscribers watch live events via its WatchESPN iPad app. Link
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Wenner: Mags' iPad Rush Is 'Sheer Insanity'
Advertising Age,
May 31, 2011, 6:44 AM EDT
Jann Wenner, head of Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media, on magazines moving to tablet computers: "To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear." Link
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The Daily Keeps Its Affairs Secret
The New York Observer,
May 20, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT
Since its launch three months ago, News Corp. has kept the goings-on at tablet newspaper The Daily tightly under wraps. Link
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IPad Users Spend Most Time In Front Of TV
Lost Remote,
May 20, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT
A study from Nielsen shows that 30% of iPad owners spend the most of their time on the device while in front of the TV. Link
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Playboy Puts Every Issue Ever On The iPad
Associated Press,
May 20, 2011, 7:22 AM EDT
Amazon Sells More Kindle Books Than Real Books
Amazon.com,
May 20, 2011, 7:08 AM EDT
Newsonomics of the Missing Link
Newspapers Risk Missing The Tablet Boat
Nieman Journalism Lab,
May 19, 2011, 2:57 PM EDT
Author Ken Doctor: "The tablet is print-like, but it’s not print. It’s a new medium, first inviting -- and soon demanding -- that publishers make use of its interactive, video-forward, and smooth-as-silk social sharing capabilities. If publishers persist in “going slow,” sticking with cheaper-to-produce replica tablet products, they’ll squander the tablet replacement-for-print opportunity." Link
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Sports Illustrated App Gets A Redesign
Mashable,
May 19, 2011, 7:41 AM EDT
The sports magazine's redesign will appear in print and on tablets by July, and exemplifies an ongoing move to integrate all Sports Illustrated content across platforms and devices. Link
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Nielsen: Tabs Bring Money, But Adoption Low
PaidContent,
May 18, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Of all the wireless devices that have hit the market in the past several years, tablets present the biggest commercial opportunity for media owners, in terms of what consumers are willing to pay for and consume on the devices, but adoption rates are still less than 5%, according to Nielsen. Link
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Pubs See Impressive Tablet Engagement
PaidContent,
May 18, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Across digital editions developed by TigerSpike -- whose clients include Telegraph Media Group, The Economist, The Australian and Mail Online -- average app engagement time is 30 to 34 minutes, according to TigerSpike managing director Nic Newman. Link
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'Hulu For Mags' Opens For Android Business
All Things Digital,
May 18, 2011, 12:44 PM EDT
Next Issue Media, the joint venture between five big publishers to create their own digital newsstand, today rolled out its service for Samsung Galaxy tablet users. The service, which has also been labeled a "Hulu for magazines," will let users buy app versions of seven magazines, as single copies or monthly subscriptions. Link
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BeeTV Raises $1.5M, Releases iPad App
TechCrunch,
May 18, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Social television startup BeeTV lets users share ‘TV moments’ with friends and others in real-time, via its iPad app wich launched this week. Link
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Atavist's Evan Ratliff On Long-Form Journalism
Columbia Journalism Review,
May 18, 2011, 8:06 AM EDT
10 Intel-Based Tabs Set For Debut At Computex
Mashable,
May 18, 2011, 7:15 AM EDT
Apps From Kids' Mags Target 'Early Adopters'
PBS MediaShift,
May 17, 2011, 3:42 PM EDT
Children's magazine publishers are experimenting with new ways to reach their audiences with tablet apps geared toward the younger crowd. Link
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Apps 6 Times More Popular Than Web On Phones
ReadWriteWeb,
May 17, 2011, 3:32 PM EDT
Rumor: Two Tablets In The Works For Amazon
PaidContent,
May 17, 2011, 2:19 PM EDT
Apple To Exhibit At BookExpo America
PaidContent,
May 17, 2011, 2:11 PM EDT
Conde Nast Rolls Out 4 More Digital Editions
Wired,
May 17, 2011, 8:15 AM EDT
Conde Nast titles Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest and Allure on Monday joined The New Yorker in offering subscriptions in Apple's iTunes store. Self, GQ and Wired are expected to follow next month. Link
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Pop Sci iPad Subs Are 95% New Readers
Advertising Age,
May 16, 2011, 3:35 PM EDT
Gregg Hano, vice president and group publisher at the Bonnier Technology Group, said 95% of subscribers to the iPad edition of the company's Popular Science, which began selling the tablet edition three months ago, are new to the magazine. Link
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Cablevision Fields Complaints About iPad Streaming
MediaPost,
May 16, 2011, 2:11 PM EDT
Nook Android App Adds Tablet Magazines
MediaPost,
May 16, 2011, 2:07 PM EDT
RIM Recalls 1,000 PlayBooks Over OS Glitch
Bloomberg,
May 16, 2011, 11:21 AM EDT
Build An App On Any Budget
Editor & Publisher,
May 13, 2011, 3:43 PM EDT
For newspapers considering creating an app to boost their bottom lines, a variety of pricing options from developers are available to publishers.
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Tabs, Smartphones Await Killer Web App
PaidContent,
May 13, 2011, 3:20 PM EDT
PBS Introduces iPad App For Children
TVNewsCheck,
May 13, 2011, 6:57 AM EDT
PBS's new app will give children with iPads free access to more than 1,000 videos from top PBS Kids and PBS Kids Go! series, according to the public broadcaster. Link
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Other Pubs Get Good Bite Of Fortune's Apple Story
TechDirt,
May 12, 2011, 2:32 PM EDT
SI On Apple: Our Subs Are Most Important
PaidContent,
May 12, 2011, 8:53 AM EDT
Time Inc.'s deal with Apple avoids the computer giant's 30% commission fee by only allowing access to its digital editions to existing print subscribers. Sports Illustrated editor in chief Terry McDonell: "We're very happy to have this arrangement now where our subscribers, which is the most important thing to us, can sign in and get Sports Illustrated on an iPad." Link
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Publishers Ready To Work With Apple
Forbes,
May 12, 2011, 8:25 AM EDT
With a trio of high-profile magazine publishers having inked deals with Apple to sell iPad subscriptions -- in some form -- through the App Store, it turns out that publishers’ fear that Apple’s policies would deny them the consumer data they need was unfounded. Link
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Kindle Revenue Estimates Jump
PaidContent,
May 11, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT
Is iPad Just A New Way To Give Away Mags?
The New York Times,
May 11, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
David Carr: "American publishers have always priced magazines far below cost in hopes of building up huge audiences that they can sell advertising against. But given that digital circulation has a much lower cost structure, publishers could pivot and try to make more money off the consumers themselves." Link
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FT Still In Talks With Apple About iPad Subs
PaidContent,
May 10, 2011, 2:59 PM EDT
The Financial Times is still in discussions with Apple over falling in line with the computer company's in-app purchasing plans. The sticking point for the newspaper is over who holds consumer data. Link
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HBO iPad, Android App Hits 1M Downloads
PaidContent,
May 10, 2011, 2:21 PM EDT
Time: No Plans To Sell Mags In App Store
Advertising Age,
May 10, 2011, 8:28 AM EDT
Time Inc. tapped Perry Solomon to lead the magazine company into the tablet era, naming him vice president for digital business development, but the company has no plans to follow Conde Nast and Hearst and sell subscriptions through Apple's App Store. Link
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Scripps To C'Vision, TWC: Pay For Shows On iPads
MediaPost,
May 9, 2011, 3:42 PM EDT
New Yorker Hits Apple Subscription Platform
All Things Digital,
May 9, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
Conde Nast has started selling The New Yorker via Apple's digital subscription service. The magazine is being offered at $5.99 per month -- about $1.50 an issue. Link
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Digital Magazines
Trying To Sell Advertisers On Digital Future
The New York Times,
May 9, 2011, 7:30 AM EDT
With tablet popularity increasing, magazine publishers are beginning to entertain hopes that they will be able to charge enough for advertising on digital platforms to secure their future, but advertisers aren't yet convinced that digital subscribers are worth the same as print subscribers. Link
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Apps Won't Change Newspaper Economics
The Independent,
May 9, 2011, 6:47 AM EDT
The Independent's Stephen Glover: "Newspaper publishers who are banking on the iPad producing a torrent of new revenue that may transform their balance sheets are being over-optimistic. ... Apps offer some unhoped-for extra revenue in the digital age, though I would be astonished if they transformed the economics of newspaper publishing." Link
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15 Things You Didn't Know Your Kindle Could Do
Business Insider,
May 6, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT
UK Paper Goes With Apple Subs For iPad App
PaidContent,
May 5, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT
The Daily Telegraph's new iPad app -- launched today -- is free to download but requires "editions" be bought inside via Apple's in-app payments. Link
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Apple Digital Subscription Plan
New Service Helps Pubs Evade Apple Cut
Reuters,
May 5, 2011, 2:32 PM EDT
Yudu, a company that creates online publishing tools that help companies tailor their content to tablet computers, today launched a service that will help publishers avoid the 30% commission Apple charges to deliver content through its App Store. Link
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The Daily: 800k Downloads, But $10M Loss
Adweek,
May 5, 2011, 8:06 AM EDT
News Corp.'s tablet-only newspaper The Daily has generated 800,000 downloads since its Feb. 2 launch, according to company chief operating officer Chase Carey, but it has also cost News Corp. some $10 million dollars during its short existence. Link
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Hearst Inks Tablet Deal With Apple
WWD,
May 5, 2011, 8:06 AM EDT
Hearst has signed a deal with Apple to sell subscriptions for its digital editions on the iPad. The publisher -- which becomes the first big magazine publisher to sell subscriptions on the tablet -- will offer Esquire, Popular Mechanics and O, The Oprah Magazine through the iTunes store starting July issues for $19.99 a year, or $1.99 a month. But according to a report in Advertising Age, Conde Nast titles could hit iTunes first. Link
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OnSwipe Aims To Reinvent Content For Tabs
GigaOM,
May 4, 2011, 8:20 AM EDT
Jason Baptiste, co-founder and CEO of New York-based startup OnSwipe, believes that dedicated iPad and mobile apps make sense for games or specific tasks, such as looking for a restaurant, but are no good for content. Link
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Commentary
Tech Reshaping Our Scope Of Knowledge
Editor & Publisher,
May 2, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Jeff Flemin: "With the recent launch of Zite, touted as the app that thinks for you, we are blindly heading down a deep cavern of narrow-minded thinking." Link
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The Daily's Numbers Slowly Improve
C-Scape,
May 2, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
The launch of Apple's iPad 2 has helped the app for News Corp.'s The Daily overcome some of its early technical difficulties and has breathed some life into the iPad-only newspaper. Link
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PlayBook Exceeds Best Buy's Expectations
All Things Digital,
May 2, 2011, 8:40 AM EDT
NFL iPad App Stumbles During The Draft
Lost Remote,
May 2, 2011, 8:27 AM EDT
HBO Go Debuts On iPad, iPhone, But Not For All
Lost Remote,
May 2, 2011, 8:25 AM EDT
Time Inc. Signs iPad Deal With Apple
Morningstar,
May 2, 2011, 7:55 AM EDT
Beginning today, print subscribers to Time Inc. magazines Sports Illustrated, Time and Fortune will be able to access the iPad editions of those magazines for free. Link
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Temple Of Xoom: Motorola Ships 250K Tabs In Q1
PaidContent,
Apr 29, 2011, 8:46 AM EDT
Zite CEO Wants To Change Pubs’ Impressions
PaidContent,
Apr 27, 2011, 3:53 PM EDT
Mark Johnson, the new CEO of iPad news-reading app Zite, says his company wants to find a way to work with news publishers rather than be their competition. Link
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Commentary
Papers Have Yet To Fully Exploit Mobile Tech
Poynter,
Apr 27, 2011, 7:19 AM EDT
Poynter's Damon Kiesow on the early days of newspaper tablet apps: "Media companies are not trying enough, quickly enough [to create innovative apps for tablet computers]. It is not that media cannot innovate, it is that media organizations have not been structured to encourage it." Link
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Q&A With The Atavist's Evan Ratliff
Saving Long-Form Journalism With Tech
Online Journalism Review,
Apr 27, 2011, 6:54 AM EDT
Tha Atavist founder Evan Ratliff: "In the digital world, if that's where your experiment is going to exist, you have to find a designer/developer who understands what you are trying to do. ... Now, if you are one of those new-style journalists that can do it all: write and report and code and design, well, that's amazing. But if not, befriend great coders! Find ones who like to read!" Link
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App Developers See Two-Horse iOS-Android Race
PaidContent,
Apr 26, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT
Sony Enters Tab Market With Two Android Devices
PaidContent,
Apr 26, 2011, 3:19 PM EDT
'Frontline' Eyes Options For Digital Future
The Boston Globe,
Apr 26, 2011, 2:55 PM EDT
Award-winning TV documentary series Frontline is eyeing multiplatform options for what its production team calls the "post-broadcast future," with a goal of retooling the show's programming for devices like the iPad while breaking news 24 hours a day. Link
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Zite Wants To Play Nice With Publishers
The New York Times,
Apr 26, 2011, 7:49 AM EDT
News aggregator Zite Monday released a new version of its app intended to quell the criticism from publishers. Zite also named Mark Johnson, a longtime adviser to the company, as its new CEO. Link
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Ken Doctor: ‘The Play is for Tablets’
Street Fight,
Apr 25, 2011, 3:32 PM EDT
Author Ken Doctor: "If you could combine the best local news sources -- which would include local newspaper, local broadcast, public radio, best local bloggers -- into an easy to use format, essentially a local briefing -- and a tablet is a perfect platform for it -- I think people would pay something for that." Link
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Nook Color Adds Apps, E-Mail To Challenge Tablets
MediaPost,
Apr 25, 2011, 1:52 PM EDT
Mobile Data
Tablets Will Spur 17% Of Data Demand By 2020
All Things Digital,
Apr 25, 2011, 8:42 AM EDT
RIM Needs More From Playbook To Reclaim Its Mojo
PaidContent,
Apr 25, 2011, 8:21 AM EDT
NBA Offers Second-Screen iPad App For Playoffs
Lost Remote,
Apr 25, 2011, 8:17 AM EDT
Game Journalism Goes New School With iPad App
Los Angeles Times,
Apr 25, 2011, 7:49 AM EDT
Playbook Day 1: 50,000 Units Sold
All Things Digital,
Apr 22, 2011, 8:24 AM EDT
UK's Dail Mail iPad App Mimics Web Product
PaidContent,
Apr 21, 2011, 3:26 PM EDT
Unlike many other news organizations that have patterned their iPad apps after their print products, the Daily Mail's new Mail Online app mirrors the news agenda of the Mail's organization's Web site, not its newspaper. Link
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News.Me Social News App Debuts
The New York Times,
Apr 21, 2011, 8:08 AM EDT
News.me, the long-awaited social news service developed in collaboration with Betaworks, a technology incubator, and The New York Times Co., debuts today. Link
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5 Best Apps For Personalized News
10,000 Words,
Apr 21, 2011, 8:04 AM EDT
A bumper crop of new and updated apps tailored for interactive news consumption has sprouted, adapting the act of reading a newspaper to the tablet. 10,000 Words' Jessica Roy runs down five of the better ones: Instapaper, Flipboard, SkyGrid, Pulse News Reader, Taptu. Link
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Pre-Teens Drive iPad Purchases, Join Social Nets
Advertising Age,
Apr 21, 2011, 6:52 AM EDT
Mags Scramble To Streamline App Production
PaidContent,
Apr 20, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT
Magazine publishers are not only trying to pack more features and content into their apps -- they’re also trying to design for an ever-growing variety of devices and formats. The result is wreaking havoc with traditional print production schedules and budgets. Link
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Intel-Powered Tablets To Us Android
BBC,
Apr 20, 2011, 3:16 PM EDT
Amazon To Allow Library Lending Of Kindle Books
Reuters,
Apr 20, 2011, 12:40 PM EDT
Aggregator News.Me Readys For Launch
All Things Digital,
Apr 20, 2011, 7:47 AM EDT
Bit.ly's news aggregator app News.me, which has the blessing of some big news publishers, is close to launching at a price of 99 cents per week or $34.99 for a year. Link
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Redesigned GQ iPad App: Better, But Not By Much
Mashable,
Apr 20, 2011, 7:07 AM EDT
Commentary
Flipboard-Like Apps Could Be Media's Future
GigaOM,
Apr 20, 2011, 7:04 AM EDT
Matthew Ingram: "With Flipboard and Zite and similar tools, content companies have a chance to find alternate ways to reach readers -- and possibly monetize that relationship in some way other than just an old-fashioned paywall, if apps are willing to license the content and/or share in the advertising and other revenue." Link
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The Daily ME Gaines Jumps Ship For Reuters
Reuters,
Apr 19, 2011, 3:03 PM EDT
Jim Gaines, managing editor of News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily, is leaving the publication to become the ethics editor at Reuters. Link
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HBO Streaming Service Goes Mobile
CNET,
Apr 19, 2011, 2:11 PM EDT
Strategy Analytics: Tablets To Be $49B Biz By 2015
Reuters,
Apr 19, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
Financial Times: Digital Subs Up 8% In 2011
PaidContent,
Apr 18, 2011, 8:27 AM EDT
Fox, Discovery Nets Back On TWC iPad App
PaidContent,
Apr 18, 2011, 8:24 AM EDT
ABC News Explores Video Books With App
Lost Remote,
Apr 18, 2011, 7:59 AM EDT
ABC News has rolled out a new iPad app that offers video books that combine text, photos and video from the network's archives. The ABC Video Bookstore app, which is free, launched with two $7.99 books for sale: A Modern Fairy Tale (previewing the royal wedding) and The Amanda Knox Story. Link
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Flipboard's McCue: $50M Is Google Defense
TechCrunch,
Apr 18, 2011, 7:59 AM EDT
In a Q&A with TechCrunch, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue indicated that the company's latest $50 million funding round will help it fend off competition -- including a rumored 'Flipboard killer' from Google -- as well as help it build up its consumer brand. Link
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Flipboard: A Threat And Opportunity
Monday Note,
Apr 18, 2011, 7:59 AM EDT
French ePress consortium general manager Frédéric Filloux: "Flipboard is the product any big media company or, better, any group of media companies should have invented. ... For a large media company, inventing their own Flipboard would have yielded full control of the business model: smart advertising and/or a paid-for Premium Flipboard offering high-quality streams of articles (otherwise accessible behind a paywall) and curated third party content." Link
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Personal Mag Apps Help Readers Handle Web
Time ,
Apr 15, 2011, 2:43 PM EDT
Personalized-magazine applications use cues such as recommendations from friends and reading habitsto pull in articles that will capture a reader's interest and declutter it, presenting text and pictures in a streamlined manner more reminiscent of a print publication than a Web site. Link
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Adobe Makes Wired iPad May Edition Free
Advertising Age,
Apr 15, 2011, 2:43 PM EDT
Wired is making the iPad edition of its May issue free to download for 30 days starting today, courtesy of a sponsorship from Adobe. The magazine hopes the free download will help show off new sharing and shopping functions. Link
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RIM Chiefs Defend PlayBook Against Critics
Bloomberg,
Apr 15, 2011, 9:55 AM EDT
Pans Precede Playbook's Launch
PaidContent,
Apr 15, 2011, 8:38 AM EDT
Flipboard Lands $50M At $200M Valuation
All Things Digital,
Apr 15, 2011, 8:07 AM EDT
Social magazine Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million funding round at $200 million valuation. “We’re obviously thrilled, because we think it confirms our focus that people want a beautifully designed way to interact with content and to share it,” McCue told All Things Digital. Link
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EBook Dilemma: Book Signings
The New York Times,
Apr 15, 2011, 7:50 AM EDT
Social Mag Flipboard Teams With Oprah
Advertising Age,
Apr 14, 2011, 3:33 PM EDT
Ad:Tech San Francisco
Marketers Bullish On iPad As Ad Medium
Mobile Marketer,
Apr 14, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
Panelists during a session at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco said marketers need to make tablet computers a vital part of their digital strategies. BBDO Atlanta vice president of digital Brett Barashcalled the iPad a great canvas for advertisers. Link
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Commentary
IPad And Old Media: A Shotgun Wedding
MarketWatch,
Apr 14, 2011, 8:29 AM EDT
Jon Friedman says publishers need the iPad more than the iPad needs them: "This seeming marriage made in heaven of new and old media is getting off to an uninspiring start." Link
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Is TV In The iPad's Crosshairs?
MediaPost,
Apr 13, 2011, 3:39 PM EDT
An AdMob/Google study of more than 1400 tablet users found that 34% of tablet users spend more time with their tablet each day than they do watching television. Link
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Amazon To Sell Discounted, Ad-Supported Kindle
PaidContent,
Apr 12, 2011, 1:35 PM EDT
Vid Apps' Problem: Not Indexed, Searchable
Beet.tv,
Apr 12, 2011, 8:27 AM EDT
While many publishers have been building video Apps in response to the dramatic rise of video consumption via the iPad, iPhone and Android, it's not a very effective environment for discovery since video apps are not indexed or searchable, according to NPD Group tech analyst Ross Rubin.
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Gartner Tablet Outlook: Future Is Bright For iPad
PaidContent,
Apr 11, 2011, 3:46 PM EDT
Bing iPad App Is A Newspaper In Disguise
Poynter,
Apr 11, 2011, 3:29 PM EDT
Microsoft's new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search -- it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form. The app is not being marketed as a news platform, but journalists should consider it one because it offers a great local information utility for the iPad age. Link
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Masters iPad App Shines On Second Screen
Lost Remote,
Apr 11, 2011, 7:55 AM EDT
Tablets Could Become New Sunday Papers
Column Five Media,
Apr 11, 2011, 7:41 AM EDT
How different would Joe Jackson's "Sunday Papers" be if he wrote it today? A new infographic from Column Five Media examines how newspapers are going mobile and if the iPad will soon become the new Sunday newspaper. Link
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Q&A with author Robert Vamosi
Our Gadgets Can Leak Important Security Info
Salon,
Apr 11, 2011, 7:26 AM EDT
BusinessWeek Launches Paid iPad App
PaidContent,
Apr 11, 2011, 7:14 AM EDT
Bloomberg BusinessWeek has launched a new iPad app that will be free for print subscribers and cost non-subscribers $2.99 per month -- half off the magazine's newsstand price. Link
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Toledo Blade Launches Free iPad App
NetNewsCheck,
Apr 11, 2011, 6:57 AM EDT
Toledo, Ohio, daily newspaper The Blade has launched a free iPad app that will deliver top stories and breaking news updates, as well as video from around the Internet on the latest news, sports and entertainment. Full Story
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In-Market Tablet Buyers Favor iPad Over PlayBook
MediaPost,
Apr 8, 2011, 1:10 PM EDT
ESPN Launches WatchESPN Live TV App
Lost Remote,
Apr 8, 2011, 7:33 AM EDT
Time Warner Cable, Viacom iPad Flap Lands In Court
The New York Times,
Apr 8, 2011, 7:31 AM EDT
Microsoft's Bing Comes To The iPad
PaidContent,
Apr 7, 2011, 2:53 PM EDT
Google Working On Tablet Version Of Chrome OS
CNET,
Apr 7, 2011, 9:06 AM EDT
Cable TV Operators Look To iPad Apps
The Wall Street Journal,
Apr 7, 2011, 7:39 AM EDT
A group of high-ranking cable television executives met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley last April to discuss how to make more movies and TV shows available on the iPad. Those discussions eventually led to the live cable TV apps launched in recent weeks by Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, which have raised objections from programmers. Link
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A Look At The Daily Through The Tweets
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Apr 6, 2011, 3:28 PM EDT
Nieman's Joshua Benton examined Twitter usage data for News Corp.'s The Daily to get a picture of iPad use and the Daily. Among the findings: Twitter use for the iPad app peaks at different time from Web Twitter use. Link
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Havas Digital To Sell Print, Digi Subs For Economist
Advertising Age,
Apr 6, 2011, 11:32 AM EDT
YES Network Says No To Cablevision App
New York Post,
Apr 6, 2011, 8:33 AM EDT
New Data On The Daily Suggests Tough Road
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Apr 5, 2011, 3:37 PM EDT
Nieman Journalism Lab devised a chart that suggests -- at least when viewed through the lens of Twitter sharing -- The Daily is losing audience over time rather than gaining it. Link
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Commentary: Cable Operator iPad Apps
What You Should Know About iPad App Flap
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 5, 2011, 2:12 PM EDT
The controversy over Time Warner Cable’s plan to distribute cable programming on tablets has implications for broadcasters. Like many cable programmers, most broadcasters don’t have all the rights needed to distribute programming on the Internet. Also, viewing on tablets is unmeasured. Do you want your station’s viewing shifting to unmeasured devices? Link
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Apple Sub Plan Hits Industry Push-Back
San Jose Mercury News,
Apr 5, 2011, 8:35 AM EDT
For Apple's plan ostensibly designed to help ailing print publishers sign up new readers and thrive in the digital jungle, the Cupertino giant's new subscription model has met with push-back from the industry, mixed reviews from analysts, and rants from bloggers calling the company everything from monopolist to Mafioso. Link
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FT Won't Give Up Sub Relationship To Apple
Reuters,
Apr 4, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT
The Financial Times wants to keep selling subscriptions for its digital news directly to readers rather than surrender control of new customers who sign up via Apple's iPad, according to FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw. Link
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Bonnier Offers iPad Mag Builder For Free
PaidContent,
Apr 4, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
Bonnier is offering its Mag+ digital magazine software as a free download, so publishers can test it and build editions without committing outlay. But the company will charge a flat fee and a per-title fee to magazines that go ahead and distribute those digital editions to consumers. Link
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Cablevision Launches iPad App
PaidContent,
Apr 4, 2011, 7:28 AM EDT
New York Paper Launches Kindle App
NetNewsCheck,
Apr 1, 2011, 3:33 PM EDT
New York newspaper The Post-Star today began selling its new app for Amazon's Kindle e-reader. Readers can subscribe to the Kindle edition for $5.99 per month or buy single issues for 99 cents. The paper also said it is working offering a version for Apple's iPad: "We’re already working on an iPad application which we hope to have in a couple months and open up another avenue for our readers to receive our product."
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No Joke: The Onion Releases iPad App
Mashable,
Apr 1, 2011, 2:51 PM EDT
ESPN Needs Blackouts On TWC iPad App
Multichannel News,
Apr 1, 2011, 7:18 AM EDT
Replica Editions Dominate Paper iPad Apps
Poynter,
Apr 1, 2011, 7:23 AM EDT
Many of the iPad apps currently being produced by newspapers are merely replicas of their print products, but to attract new consumers to local journalism, papers will need to develop more interactive experiences, including digital-only features and content. Link
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Cable Nets Lose By Winning TWC iPad Fight
NewTeeVee,
Apr 1, 2011, 7:07 AM EDT
Weather Channel Prmeires Show On Four Screens
MediaPost,
Mar 31, 2011, 2:27 PM EDT
Fox To TWC: Keep Our Nets Off iPad
Bloomberg,
Mar 31, 2011, 1:54 PM EDT
Mag Icon Black: iPad Not A 'Magic Pony'
BetaBeat,
Mar 31, 2011, 8:21 AM EDT
Magazine design guru Roger Black says he's surprised the publishing industry thought the iPad was a "magic pony" that would save it and he bemoans the state of Web design today. To that end, Black created Treesaver, a publishing platform built to address what he sees as the central design issue of today: fragmentation. Link
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The Daily Is Well Short Of It Goals
Forbes,
Mar 31, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
Media Cos Send News Reader Zite C&D Letter
All Things Digital,
Mar 31, 2011, 7:38 AM EDT
The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty Images, Time, Dow Jones and several other media companies sent a cease-and-desist letter to iPad news reader app Zite over copyright concerns. Link
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Study Identifies Obstacles For The Daily
NetNewsCheck,
Mar 30, 2011, 3:22 PM EDT
A new study from knowDigital found that News Corp.s iPad-only The Daily needs to overcome the perception that its content is inferior and the expectation that apps are purchased through one-time transactions in order to thrive. Full Story
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Commentary
TWC iPad App First Shot In A Media War
C-Scape,
Mar 30, 2011, 3:04 PM EDT
Larry Kramer on the fight between cable networks and Time Warner Cable over its iPad app: "Suddenly the video world is in the midst of a content platform convergence that promises to be as confusing and unsettling as everything that has happened in the newspaper, book, magazine and music worlds." Link
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Flipboard, Newsy Show How To Win On iPad
ReadWriteWeb,
Mar 30, 2011, 2:38 PM EDT
When the iPad launched in April last year, news organizations were among the first to create applications for the tablet. A year later, apps from the traditional news media have failed to capture consumer imagination. But two iPad native apps have enhanced our news consuming user experience: Flipboard and Newsy. Link
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Digital Products Help News Corp. UK Papers
Dow Jones Newswire,
Mar 30, 2011, 2:22 PM EDT
News Corp.'s U.K. newspapers, including The Times and The Sunday Times, are benefiting from the launch of new digital products amid rising popularity for tablets, including Apple's iPad. Link
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WKRG Compares iPad Video To Real Camera
NewsLab,
Mar 30, 2011, 2:22 PM EDT
Lauren Styler of WKRG in Mobile, Ala., put the new iPad2's video capability to the test. She went out with station photojournalist Gary Arnold, who used a Panasonic P2, and shot the same basic video he did using an iPad2. See the comparison video here.
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Only 0.82% Of UK Times iPad Trialists Subscribed
PaidContent,
Mar 30, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
'Pop Science' Sells 10,000 iPad Subscriptions
Advertising Age,
Mar 30, 2011, 8:46 AM EDT
Bonnier's Popular Science magazine sold the 10,000th subscription to its iPad edition this week, nearly six weeks after accepting Apple's subscription terms. That's a speck compared to the title's nearly 1.2 million print subscriptions, but a significant early foothold for digital magazine subscriptions on the iPad. Link
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A Mom's Review Of The iPad
Technologizer,
Mar 30, 2011, 7:10 AM EDT
Dispute Over TWC iPad App Explodes
The New York Times,
Mar 29, 2011, 8:12 AM EDT
Kindle Users Get Free NYT Web Access
GeekWire ,
Mar 29, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
Amazon.com said that Kindle customers who have purchased a subscription of The New York Times on the Kindle will be able to access the newspaper's Web site at no extra charge. Link
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Maine Papers Launch Mobile Apps For iPad
Kennebec Journal,
Mar 28, 2011, 2:20 PM EDT
Commentary
Solmssen: The Daily Is 'Oddly Addictive'
ClickZ,
Mar 25, 2011, 8:31 AM EDT
Possible Worldwide's Andrew Solmssen on News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper: "The Daily's not just important symbolically; it's oddly addictive. The mix of fluffy entertainment and sports content with world news and events totally works, and it's a curatorial and editorial voice that I've grown to appreciate and, yes, love." Link
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Time Warner Faces Legal Fight Over TV App
Variety,
Mar 25, 2011, 8:20 AM EDT
Time Warner Cable is facing litigation from at least one of Hollywood's majors in a matter of days over its iPad app that delivers 32 cable networks to an iPad within a subscriber's home. Cablevision is also planning to launch an iPad app that will make a subscriber's entire channel package -- including broadcast networks -- available on the tablet. Link
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Flipboard Raising Funding At $200M Valuation
All Things Digital,
Mar 23, 2011, 4:08 PM EDT
IPad social media reading app Flipboard is raising another round of funding at a $200 million valuation. Link
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Blogger Gary Vaynerchuk Joins The Daily
Business Insider,
Mar 23, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
Amazon, Publishers Curtail E-Book Lending
Slate,
Mar 23, 2011, 7:42 AM EDT
Appstore Puts Kindle Back In Future Of News
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Mar 23, 2011, 7:12 AM EDT
Just two years ago, Amazon's Kindle e-reader was being labeled a savior of journalism and the future of newspapers and magazines. Since then, a lot has happened and the Kindle has been moved to the back burner. But the launch of Amazon's new Android Appstore could put the online bookseller right back in the middle of the future of news conversation. Link
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WSJ Launches Single-Issue iPad Downloads
PaidContent,
Mar 22, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Looking to get more subscribers for its iPad app, The Wall Street Journal will start selling single-issue digital versions of its morning paper for $1.99 in the iTunes App store tomorrow. Link
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RIM PlayBook Will Cost Same As iPad 2
Business Insider,
Mar 22, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook
All Things Digital,
Mar 21, 2011, 3:55 PM EDT
Why The iPad Won't Be Like The iPod
PaidContent,
Mar 21, 2011, 7:54 AM EDT
UBM's Levin: Tablet Pubs Are 'Hopeless'
PaidContent,
Mar 18, 2011, 3:26 PM EDT
United Business Media CEO David Levin on publishers' attempts to push existing publications onto iPad apps: "Publishers have got a long way to go. Some big brands are getting some bits of it absolutely right - but, at heart, all of the broadsheets don't have a functional business model yet. It's all experimentation while the core business shrinks. There's not yet one publication that's in a great place." Link
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The Daily Paywall Goes Up March 21
Advertising Age,
Mar 18, 2011, 2:10 PM EDT
News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily will get to see how many of the "hundreds of thousands" that publisher Greg Clayman claims have taken advantage of the free trial will pay for the publication when it ends its trial subscription period March 21 and begin charging readers $1 per week. Link
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German Mags Fight Apple Subscription Policy
PaidContent,
Mar 18, 2011, 8:59 AM EDT
Daily Publisher: Subs Much Higher Than 5,000
PaidContent,
Mar 18, 2011, 7:46 AM EDT
Reports that the new News Corp. iPad-only newspaper The Daily has about 5,000 subscribers are not true according to the publication's publisher Greg Clayman. He put the numbers now at “much, much” higher but declined to provide specifics. Link
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New York Times Will Be Sold Through iTunes
All Things Digital,
Mar 18, 2011, 7:35 AM EDT
Apple gets its first big publisher to announce it is signing on with the company's new subscription plan: The New York Times says it will sell access to the paper's apps through iTunes, on Apple's new terms. Link
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Sky News Puts Monthly Fee On New iPad App
PaidContent,
Mar 17, 2011, 8:48 AM EDT
Daily Publisher: Expansion Coming
PaidContent,
Mar 17, 2011, 8:44 AM EDT
The Daily publisher Greg Clayman, speaking at the recent paidContent 2011 conference, hinted at upcoming plans for expansion and explained he doesn’t have a problem with Apple’s 30% cut of the profits.
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Time Warner Cable iPad App Too Popular
Reuters,
Mar 16, 2011, 3:09 PM EDT
The Daily Set For Europe Availability
PaidContent,
Mar 16, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT
OC Reg Eyes iPad-Only Content For Relaunch
PaidContent,
Mar 16, 2011, 3:14 PM EDT
Freedom Communications' Orange County Register is preparing to reboot its existing iPad app in the next few weeks with an emphasis on "iPad-first" and "iPad-only content." Link
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Apple iOS Mag Template Could Help Pubs
Fast Company,
Mar 16, 2011, 2:36 PM EDT
Apple is rumored to be building code hooks and extensive developer guidelines into a future version of Xcode (the software suite that lets coders create apps for the iPhone and iPad) to aid the construction of iPad-friendly digital magazines. Link
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'Sports Illustrated' Expands Its Digital Play
PaidContent,
Mar 16, 2011, 3:06 PM EDT
Sports Illustrated today launched its newest digital product -- without an iPad app. SI will showcase its photography with ad-supported Front Row as an app on the iPhone, Android devices with Adobe Air, on Chrome through its Web app SI Snapshot and as a featured section on Flipboard. Link
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Apple Delays iPad 2 Launch In Japan
The Wall Street Journal,
Mar 15, 2011, 3:35 PM EDT
Bonnier Spins Out Mag Plus Concept
PaidContent,
Mar 15, 2011, 3:31 PM EDT
Swedish publisher Bonnier, which introduced its Mag+ concept for iPad magazines last year, has now spun the idea out in to separate business called Moving Media+ to woo other publishers with this platform for their magazines. Link
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'Cosmo' Gets iPad App
WWD,
Mar 15, 2011, 8:17 AM EDT
Every Condé Nast Mag To Get Digital Edition In 2011
WWD,
Mar 15, 2011, 8:05 AM EDT
Time Warner Cable iPad App Shows Live TV
The Canadian Press,
Mar 15, 2011, 6:23 AM EDT
Time Warner Cable Inc. is launching an iPad application that plays live TV, becoming the first cable company to do so. Link
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The Daily Fails To Live Up To Its Hype
Advertising Age,
Mar 15, 2011, 6:27 AM EDT
Simon Dumenco: "Right now, the paper is just so erratic and unfocused that reading it is like witnessing a new identity crisis every day. In fact, when it suddenly crashes ... I sometimes suspect that what The Daily really needs, besides cleaned-up code, is a nice long session on a therapist's couch." Link
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Tablets Not A Replacement For Newspapers
WAN-IFRA,
Mar 14, 2011, 3:35 PM EDT
Tim Rowell, director of mobile product development at the U.K.'s Telegraph, told the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, "People are realizing that the iPad is not a direct substitute for the newspaper, they're arguably complementary." Link
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McCue: Flipboard Model Friendly To Pubs
Guardian,
Mar 14, 2011, 7:36 AM EDT
Flipboard founder Mike McCue at South by Southwest on his effort to put Web content in the spotlight: "We wanted to build something inherently friendly to publishers." Link
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Analyst: iPad 2 Sold Out; 70% To New Purchasers
VentureBeat,
Mar 14, 2011, 6:37 AM EDT
Condé Nast UK To Invest More In iPad Apps
PaidContent,
Mar 11, 2011, 3:32 PM EST
Third Staffer Leaves The Daily
MediaWeek,
Mar 11, 2011, 11:35 AM EST
News Corp.: WSJ Tablet Subscriptions Soar
Reuters,
Mar 11, 2011, 8:04 AM EST
Paid subscriptions to read News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal on tablet devices such as Apple's iPad and electronic readers have quadrupled to 200,000 in the past year, a top executive said. Link
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How To Buy The Right iPad
The New York Times,
Mar 10, 2011, 8:31 AM EST
Hearst: Tablets Will Provide 25% Of Mag Circ
Paid Content,
Mar 10, 2011, 6:55 AM EST
Hearst Magazines president David Careyspeaking at the Bloomberg Media Summit said that over the next five years, tablets could comprise 25% to 30% of magazines’ circulation. Link
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Flipboard Version 1.2 Set For Release
Mashable,
Mar 10, 2011, 6:49 AM EST
Bonnier/CP&B Research
Study: Mags' iPad Issues Struggle For Footing
Advertising Age,
Mar 9, 2011, 3:36 PM EST
Readers have more trouble focusing on magazines' iPad editions than publishers initially predicted, according to a study from Bonnier and ad agency CP&B. Link
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Jon Ward Jumps From Daily To HuffPo
MediaWeek,
Mar 9, 2011, 12:08 PM EST
Pubs Must Turn To Open Web To Beat Apple
Poynter,
Mar 9, 2011, 7:02 AM EST
Damon Kiesow says that when developing a tablet strategy, publishers need to ask whether an app is necessary: "The competition from Google's new digital newsstand and the Motorola Xoom -- or any other tablet, no matter how popular -- won't help publishers get the upper hand with Apple. Building a strategy centered on the open, mobile Web will."Damon Kiesow Link
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Commentary: Digital Subscription Plans
Apple Takes Big Bite Out Of Small Mags
PBS MediaShift,
Mar 7, 2011, 3:40 PM EST
California State University, Fresno assistant professor Susan Currie Sivek: "Independent magazines finely hone their content and advertising to attract a specific readership. That makes Apple's iPad subscription plan a particularly hard sell for small magazines. Apple requires readers to opt into sharing their personal data with publishers, and many readers will likely choose not to share. Indies need that information for marketing, promotions and customizing content." Link
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Samsung Reconsiders Galaxy Tablet Pricing
Mashable,
Mar 4, 2011, 8:28 AM EST
PaidContent 2011
Daily Downloads In 'Hundreds Of Thousands'
Agence France-Presse,
Mar 4, 2011, 8:11 AM EST
Greg Clayman, publisher of News Corp.'s The Daily, speaking at the paidContent 2011 conference in New York said the iPad-only newspaper is going great. "We're not disclosing the exact numbers [of downloads] but it's in the hundreds of thousands." Link
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Five Things The iPad 2 Didn't Get
CNET,
Mar 3, 2011, 8:32 AM EST
March Madness Shoots Onto iPads For Free
All Things Digital,
Mar 3, 2011, 7:20 AM EST
This year CBS and Time Warner’s Turner are splitting up broadcast and digital rights to the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament, and the two networks have added a new twist: Free streaming of all the games to Apple’s iPhone and iPad (but not to Android Devices). Link
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BBC International iPlayer To Be Under $10 A Month
PaidContent,
Mar 2, 2011, 3:31 PM EST
RIM To Launch PlayBook Tablet April 10
BGR,
Mar 2, 2011, 3:12 PM EST
Steve Jobs Takes Wraps Off Apple iPad 2
CNET,
Mar 2, 2011, 3:00 PM EST
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was on hand at an invite-only event in San Francisco today to debut the company's next generation iPad tablet computer. Link
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Commentary: Digital Subscription Plans
Apple Takes 30% Because It Can
Daring Fireball,
Mar 2, 2011, 2:36 PM EST
Daring Fireball's John Gruber: "Apple doesn’t give a damn about companies with business models that can’t afford a 70/30 split. Apple’s running a competitive business; competition is cold and hard." Link
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Commentary
Media Needs Hard Work To Build iPad Base
American Journalism Review,
Mar 2, 2011, 2:36 PM EST
McGraw-Hill Broadcasting director of digital media Barb Palse: "History and other evidence suggest that once the novelty wears off, traditional media will need to work a lot harder to retain those early adopters and to interest a broader consumer base." Link
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Ooyala Adds Live, Secure Video For iOS Devices
NewTeeVee,
Mar 1, 2011, 3:33 PM EST
Battle Brews Over Digital Tablet Profits
Financial Times,
Mar 1, 2011, 3:30 PM EST
DirecTV Launches New iPad App
CNET,
Feb 28, 2011, 3:38 PM EST
WPP's Sorrell: iPad Won't Save Publishers
PaidContent,
Feb 28, 2011, 2:53 PM EST
Martin Sorrell, CEO of ad giant WPP, doesn't believe the iPad is going to be publishing's savior: "[The iPad's] not regarded as being the thing that's going to save us, the panacea to the problems of converting to a digital world. It's going to be more difficult." Link
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IPad News App News360 Launches
ReadWriteWeb,
Feb 28, 2011, 2:53 PM EST
Russian startup News360 released a feature-rich free iPad app this morning that makes it easier to learn a lot about current events than does any single news source. The service aggregates coverage from multiple outlets about each story, like Google News does, and includes Twitter discussions about the topics. Link
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Tablet Wars: Motorola Xoom Fires Shot At iPad
All Things Digital,
Feb 25, 2011, 11:05 AM EST
Android Market Adds E-Books; Movies, Music Next?
Engadget,
Feb 25, 2011, 8:05 AM EST
Trademark Suit Hits Motorola On Eve Of Xoom Debut
PaidContent,
Feb 24, 2011, 3:56 PM EST
National Magazine Awards To Include Mag Apps
PaidContent,
Feb 24, 2011, 3:55 PM EST
4.5M Tablets Sold in Q3 2010; 4.3M Were iPads
All Things Digital,
Feb 24, 2011, 3:40 PM EST
The Daily Indexer: How He Did It
Waxy.org,
Feb 24, 2011, 8:32 AM EST
The Daily: Indexed has finally been shut down. The move was not, as one might expect, because News Corp. forced it, but because Andy Baio, the writer and tech entrepreneur behind the site, decided not to continue after the end of his free trial to the iPad-only newspaper. Baio explained how he did it in a blog post. Link
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No Endpoint Set For Daily Free Trial
PaidContent,
Feb 23, 2011, 4:02 PM EST
The Daily publisher Greg Clayman told PaidContent that the extension for the current free trial sponsored by Verizon will continue for several more weeks. The endpoint for the extended free trial has yet to be determined but a decision may come this week. Link
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Android Version Of The Daily Set For Spring
All Things Daily,
Feb 23, 2011, 3:19 PM EST
Rupert Murdoch leaned heavily on Apple to launch the Daily, and for now the iPad is the only place you can read News Corp.'s new digital newspaper. But according to a report from All Things Digital's Peter Kafka, The Daily is prepping for an Android tablet launch in the second quarter of this year. Link
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Carr: iPad Is Future For Magazine Publishers
WNYC,
Feb 23, 2011, 2:50 PM EST
New York Times media columnist David Carr talked about the the digital future of magazines on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show. "It doesn't take a lot of time on iPad to realize that going forward this is how content is going to be consumed. ... Whether it is, in fact, a bridge to the future or a gallows is really, really of the moment."
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Jobs: Only Publishers Bound By Sub Rules
The Next Web,
Feb 23, 2011, 8:15 AM EST
Apple chief Steve Jobs assuaged the fears of developers of apps that offer services as software, saying that the company's new digital subscription policy applied only to publishers. "We created subscriptions for publishing apps, not [software-as-a-service] apps," he told one developer in an e-mail. Link
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Commentary: Google's One Pass
German Pub's Online Plan Might Work
The Next Web,
Feb 23, 2011, 7:45 AM EST
Focus Online, Germany's third most-read news site, now charges a modest 10 cents an article. TNW's Martin Bryant believes the plan has merit: "Focus doesn't plan to base its entire business model around One Pass -- advertising will continue to play a big part for the time being, but as a test of what could work in the future I'd say that charging for things readers are most likely to want to pay for is a promising start, and one that newspapers considering paywalls should perhaps consider." Link
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Apple Sets iPad 2 Event For March 2
All Things Digital,
Feb 22, 2011, 2:47 PM EST
Google's Digital Subscription Plan
For German Pub, One Pass Is A 'Small Test'
PaidContent,
Feb 22, 2011, 8:33 AM EST
In Munich, one of Google’s launch partners has been quietly transforming its online news model. Focus Online, Germany’s third most-read news site behind Bild and Spiegel Online, now charges a modest 10 cents per article, with “five or six” features a day going through Google’s checkout. Link
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Apple Digital Subscription Plan
Readability Speaks Out Against Apple Plan
PaidContent,
Feb 22, 2011, 8:29 AM EST
Readability -- which creates apps and Web services that let users have pared-down, text-based versions of online articles to make reading them easier -- has written an open letter to Apple today, attacking the company for a "new policy [that] smacks of greed." Link
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Apple Sub Plan Fallout, Frustration Continue
ReadWriteWeb,
Feb 21, 2011, 3:08 PM EST
Apple's 30% fee is posing problems for a number of companies and developers -- those who have built their businesses around the existing rules, for example, and those who don't have the margins to be able to hand over such a cut to Apple. Companies that have raised questions about the new policy run the gamut: music streaming services, e-book sellers, and software-as-a-service developers; big companies and startups alike. Link
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Xoom Tablet Debuts Without Flash
Mashable,
Feb 21, 2011, 3:04 PM EST
FlipBoard Adds Rolling Stone
ReadWriteWeb,
Feb 21, 2011, 3:02 PM EST
Opinion
Is The iPad A Worthwhile Investment?
Slate,
Feb 21, 2011, 1:55 PM EST
Slate's John Swansburg turns to his colleagues to help him figure out what he's missing that's keeping him from enjoying his iPad and convince him he didn't make a $600 mistake. Link
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IPad Rivals Poised To Flood Business World
The New York Times,
Feb 21, 2011, 8:23 AM EST
Motorola Xoom Available For Pre-Order For $800
Mashable,
Feb 21, 2011, 8:21 AM EST
Commentary: Digital Subscription Plans
Apple's Subscription Plan Might Mean War
MediaWeek,
Feb 21, 2011, 8:02 AM EST
Lucia Moses: "While it seems the industry is getting what it’s long wanted -- the ability to sell subscriptions, not just single copies -- Apple has rigged the game." Link
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Commentary: Digital Subscription Plans
Apple, Google Cut Of Subscriptions Too High
PaidContent,
Feb 18, 2011, 2:44 PM EST
Forrester Research's James McQuivey: "The most important outcome of this week's emerging tussle between Apple and Google is that we are about to have an intense and financially difficult conversation about what a fair price is for delivering customers to developers, publishers, and producers. Link
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Affinity VISTA Measures Digital Magazine Editions
MediaPost,
Feb 18, 2011, 10:35 AM EST
Wired Will Add iPad Subscriptions 'Soon'
Yahoo,
Feb 18, 2011, 7:48 AM EST
Antitrust Enforcers Eye Apple Digital Sub Plan
The Wall Street Journal,
Feb 18, 2011, 7:38 AM EST
The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have begun looking at the terms Apple set this week for media companies who want to sell their content on its popular iPad and other devices, according to people familiar with the matter. Link
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'Vogue' Uses Lady Gaga To Launch iPad App
The Wrap,
Feb 18, 2011, 7:32 AM EST
BBC Turns iPlayer Into VOD TV Aggregator
PaidContent,
Feb 18, 2011, 7:29 AM EST
The Future Of News: Flipboard Vs. The Daily
Daily Marauder,
Feb 18, 2011, 7:28 AM EST
Digital marketing consultant Ashmi Dang, Daily Marauder editor Caroline Giegerich and digital marketer David Hayes discuss social magazine Fliboard and News Corp.'s new iPad-only The Daily and their role in the future of news delivery. Link
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Newsonomics of Apple/Google/Press+
Sub Plans Spark Paid Content Free-For-All
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Feb 17, 2011, 3:40 PM EST
Author Ken Doctor: "If Apple’s business strategy here is divide and conquer by muddle, misunderstanding and mix-up, it couldn’t have done a better job." Link
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Apps Spark Healthy UK Growth For 'Economist'
MediaWeek,
Feb 17, 2011, 3:01 PM EST
Commentary
Trio Of Mags Say Yes To iPad Sub Terms
Advertising Age,
Feb 17, 2011, 8:52 AM EST
Many magazines are staying away from Apple's new iPad subscription system, which threatens to keep publishers in the dark about their own subscribers, but a small, diverse group of magazines has emerged to accept Apple's terms, including Hachette Filipacchi's Elle, Bonnier's Popular Science and independent Nylon. Link
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Google's Digital Subscription Plan
One Pass Goes Up Against Journalism Online
PaidContent,
Feb 17, 2011, 8:34 AM EST
One company set to face new competition now that Google is rolling out its paid content system is Journalism Online and its Press Plus pay platform, which to date has helped roughly 24 publications, predominately smaller-circulation newspapers, charge readers to access online content. Link
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Apple Digital Subscription Plan
Publishers Fear Apple's Pricing Power
TechCrunch,
Feb 17, 2011, 8:34 AM EST
Publishers and other media companies with substantial subscription businesses don’t like the prospect of handing over 30% of their revenue to Apple. But more than that, they fear Apple’s control over pricing. Erick Schonfeld: "The refrain I’ve heard from a couple of publishing industry insiders is: 'How do we know next year Apple won’t be taking 50%?'" Link
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Motorola Details Euro Retail Push For Xoom
CNET,
Feb 17, 2011, 7:41 AM EST
Rust, Media Gen Plan Paywalls On One Pass
PaidContent,
Feb 16, 2011, 3:08 PM EST
With today's announcement of Google's new One Pass subscription service, two newspaper publishers said they are planning to use the service to erect paywalls at some of their newspaper sites this year. Media General plans to use One Pass to charge users who access Richmond Times Dispatch's site, while midwest newspaper chain Rust Communications will soon charge some users at three of its newspaper sites. Link
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Google Counters Apple With One Pass
Associated Press,
Feb 16, 2011, 2:55 PM EST
The Web giant's CEO Eric Schmidt speaking at Berlin's Humboldt University today said the company has launched its new online payment system, Google One Pass, that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for digital content. Schmidt said Google would take a 10% cut of every sale from One Pass, compared to Apple's 30%. Link
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ITunes Subscriptions Won't Stop Free News
Newsosaur,
Feb 16, 2011, 3:08 PM EST
Alan Mutter: "[Apple's new subscription service] is not going to throttle the flow of free news on the web any better than iTunes has stopped the torrential consumption of pirated music." Link
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New Apple Sub Rules Raise Antitrust Issues
The Wall Street Journal,
Feb 16, 2011, 8:38 AM EST
Apple's new subscription service could draw antitrust scrutiny, according to law professors. Publishers could claim that Apple dominates the market for consumer tablet computers and that it has allegedly used that commanding position to restrict competition. Link
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Daily Editor Jesse Angelo Prods Reporters
New York,
Feb 16, 2011, 7:59 AM EST
The head or Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper in a memo to his editorial team this week urged his reporters to go beyond "scraping the web and the wires" and do some actual reporting Link
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IPad Faces Major Competition From Asia
Fast Company,
Feb 15, 2011, 4:10 PM EST
What Apple's New Sub Plan Means For Pubs
Mashable,
Feb 15, 2011, 3:19 PM EST
Christina Warren: "Fundamentally, the ability to subscribe to content using iTunes is good for consumers because it creates a more cohesive experience. It also means that publishers will be more likely to investigate offering various subscription options for multiple device types. For publishers, losing out on 30% of subscriber revenue may be a tough pill to swallow." Link
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Apple Rolls Out New Subscription Plan
NetNewsCheck,
Feb 15, 2011, 2:54 PM EST
Apple today rolled out its new subscription billing service to all publishers who make their content available through the tech giant’s App Store. Under the new plan, Apple will take a 30% share of in-app subscription purchases. Full Story
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Commentary
Glass Half-Full For Tablet Magazines
PaidContent,
Feb 15, 2011, 9:02 AM EST
PaidContent's Adam Hodgkin, responding to Andrew Losowsky's blog post at the Hospital Club that concluded the world of magazine apps was bleak, writes that the technology is still in its early stages and tablet sales will only climb: "Only 15 million [iPads sold] in the nine months! Since Apple will sell perhaps another 40 million this year, and no market analyst predicted, prior to launch, that Apple would sell more than 7 million in the first year, this is a glass rapidly filling up before-we-can-get-organized, point." Link
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Tablet Options Grow, But Apple Stays On Top
Poynter,
Feb 15, 2011, 7:46 AM EST
Over the past two weeks there have been several developments on the tablet computer front -- including an updated Android operating system, several new digital tablets, a personalized news service and tablet magazine subscriptions -- but Apple and its iPad are still leading the market. Link
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Wired, New Yorker Getting Apps For Android
The Wrap,
Feb 14, 2011, 3:54 PM EST
Condé Nast is prepping digital editions of The New Yorker and Wired magazines for Google’s Android 3.0 system this spring. They will be the first Condé Nast titles to get the Android treatment. Link
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Daily's Free Access Extended To Feb. 28
MacRumors,
Feb 14, 2011, 3:24 PM EST
According to a report in MacRumors -- which cites German site Macerkopf.de -- free access to the new iPad news publication The Daily has been extended beyond the original two-week trial period, pushing the free access window to Feb. 28. Link
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New Fox iPad App In Sync With TV Show ‘Bones’
LostRemote,
Feb 14, 2011, 7:58 AM EST
RIM Plans Two More Playbooks For 2011
CNET,
Feb 14, 2011, 7:47 AM EST
Daily Back Issues Vanish Into Thin Air
Wordyard,
Feb 11, 2011, 3:47 PM EST
Back issues of News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper merely disappear the following day. Scott Rosenberg: "This looks like just another way in which the Daily, even as it’s asking for your subscription dollars, seems to offer you less than standard, free news websites -- which figured out a decade ago how to archive and preserve their back catalog." Link
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Newsstands Can Still Compete With The Daily
Neon Tommy (annenberg Digital News),
Feb 11, 2011, 2:48 PM EST
A week into the highly anticipated debut of The Daily, News Corp’s first iPad-only newspaper, most pundits agree that the virtual media app is unique for its business model and not necessarily for its journalistic content, but it won't mean the end of physical newsstands anytime soon. Link
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News Corp. Updates Balky Daily App
Forbes,
Feb 11, 2011, 2:48 PM EST
After a week in release, News Corp. has released a new version of The Daily app intended to fix some of the glitches that have caused the iPad-only newspaper to load slowly and crash. Link
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Commentary: The Future Of Newspapers
Print Has A Place In Tablet-Heavy Future
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Feb 10, 2011, 4:01 PM EST
Newspaper Nation Network president and CEO Jason Klein: "With its broadsheet format, print is an ideal vehicle for both scanning and in-depth reading, and reading a newspaper from front-to-back is a complete experience a tablet environment finds hard to duplicate. Our research with dual print/digital newspaper consumers also suggests that consumers still trust print more than digital. While the tablet has invaded print’s turf, it’s not filling all the needs that print does." Link
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'SI' Subscriptions To Hit Android Tablets
All Things Digital,
Feb 10, 2011, 3:28 PM EST
According to All Things Digital's Peter Kafka, Time Inc. tomorrow will announce a subscription offering on Google’s Android platform that will start with a single title -- Sports Illustrated -- and expand to more publications over time. Link
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Land Rover: Daily Ad Gets 50% Engagement
Mobile Marketer,
Feb 10, 2011, 8:21 AM EST
Luxury automaker Land Rover said that its advertising campaign within News Corp.’s iPad-only newspaper The Daily has surpassed 52,000 impressions, and one out of every two consumers who view the app engage with the ad. Link
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Time, HP Agree On Tablet Mag Subscriptions
All Things Digital,
Feb 9, 2011, 3:05 PM EST
Time Inc., which has been unable to come to terms with Apple over subscriptions for digitized magazines, has found a company it can work with: Hewlett-Packard. HP has agreed to let the publisher provide subscriptions for magazines on the device maker’s new tablet, due out this summer, according to a Time source. Link
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BBC iPlay Apps To Hit Android, iPad Soon
BBC Blog,
Feb 9, 2011, 3:03 PM EST
Euro Papers Warn Apple Over iTunes Sales
BBC,
Feb 8, 2011, 3:16 PM EST
The European Newspaper Publishers' Association said it is concerned by Apple's plans to direct online sales through iTunes, warning the company against trying to squeeze cash out of the newspaper industry by controlling subscriptions for iPads and iPhones. Link
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Design Trumps Content In First Major Tablet Paper
Fonts In Use,
Feb 8, 2011, 2:57 PM EST
News Updates From The Daily Hard To Find
Poynter,
Feb 8, 2011, 2:50 PM EST
News Corp.s iPad-only newspaper The Daily features updates throughout the day, but readers have to search very hard to find them, according to Poynter's Damon Kiesow. Link
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Commentary
The Daily Offers A Glimpse Into The Future
Newsosaur,
Feb 7, 2011, 3:22 PM EST
Alan Mutter: News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily is "a living, breathing glimpse into what digitally delivered news, entertainment and advertising will look like in the future." Link
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Commentary
Flipboard Vs. Daily: Future Of Newspapers
ReadWriteWeb,
Feb 7, 2011, 7:51 AM EST
Richard MacManus: "There are ways that a newspaper, paper or digital, can still command interest and readership. Providing local news -- like my city's newspaper, which I read from time to time. Or in-depth, professionally reported features -- such as most of the articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post or USA Today. However, The Daily isn't local enough and its articles seem light fare when compared to the three U.S. dailies I just mentioned. I'll be sticking with Flipboard for my daily news, together with my favorite sources of local and in-depth news." Link
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The Daily Runs A Super Bowl Ad
NetNewsCheck,
Feb 7, 2011, 7:13 AM EST
Less than a week old and News Corp.'s new iPad-only newspaper The Daily took to the biggest stage of the year to promote itself: The Super Bowl. With The Ramones version of "What a Wonderful World" playing in the background of its $3 million spot, the company "introduced" The Daily to America and promised "to make the way you get your news wonderful." The company also responded to feedback on the product in a blog post on Sunday, vowing to improve the "stability and functionality" of the publication.
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Newsonomics: Apps and HTML5
Moving Beyond Apple vs. Adobe
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Feb 4, 2011, 3:50 PM EST
Author Ken Doctor: "Now companies, from The New York Times to NPR to National Geographic, are rapidly building out both staffs and products based on HTML5 ... They’re also determining how that new, expected, pervasive interactivity -- witness The Daily’s debut -- will be accomplished most efficiently. The technology, they say, is the essential foundation for next-generation products, Web and mobile, more elegant and faster than previous HTML in its presentation and more flexible in its implementation." Link
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Get The Super Bowl Game Program On The iPad
LostRemote,
Feb 4, 2011, 3:06 PM EST
After Fast Start, Wired iPad Edition Sales Fall
NewsGrange,
Feb 4, 2011, 3:00 PM EST
Wired’s iPad edition did extremely well during its first few months on sale -- the first edition sold 79,000 copies within the first week of sales -- sales in July and August dropped to 31,000 and 28,000 respectively. If the average copy of the iPad edition really only sold an average of 27,000 copies during the second half of 2010, then the last few editions of 2010 probably sold under 25,000 copies. Link
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Jesse Angelo: Captain Of 'The Daily'
WWD,
Feb 4, 2011, 2:38 PM EST
Jesse Angelo, the man tapped to lead News Corp.s new iPad-only newspaper out of the gate, has been in Rupert Murdoch's orbit all his life. best friend to Murdoch's son James since kindergarten, Angelo has worked his way from stringer at the New York Post, through stops at Murdoch's papers in England and Australia, to the helm of the news baron's latest endeavor. Link
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Commentary: The Daily
iPad Paper Flashes Back To The Mid 1990s
Wordyard,
Feb 4, 2011, 8:02 AM EST
Salon co-founder Scott Rosenberg: "The Daily’s designers are eager to show off sparkling graphics, integrated video, and the swipe-ability that the iPad allows. Unfortunately, they are defining 'interactivity' the way the lost pioneers of the 1994-era CD-ROM 'multimedia revolution' defined it." Dan Kennedy's Media Nation digs up the following very prescient video from 1994, in which Knight-Ridder futurist Roger Fidler lays out his vision of a tablet newspaper. Link
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Yap.TV Ad Product Will Sync Tablet, TV Ads
Adweek,
Feb 4, 2011, 7:36 AM EST
Yap.TV, a startup behind a fast-growing iPad application designed to make TV viewing more social, is close to launching an ad product that will be able to sync up tablet ads with live TV ads. Link
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Oprah Plugs iPad, Flipboard On Air
PaidContent,
Feb 4, 2011, 7:03 AM EST
Tumblr Blog Links To 'Daily' Content For Free
Business Insider,
Feb 3, 2011, 3:48 PM EST
Commentary
How Will Engagement Work For 'The Daily'?
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Feb 3, 2011, 8:36 AM EST
Justin Ellis: "As an iPad-only newspaper, The Daily is clearly betting on people spending a lot of time on the device, and in some ways that seems to harken back to the glory days of subscribers reading every section of the paper. It wants to move away from the 'drive-by' audience, instead rewarding subscribers for their loyalty." Link
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Commentary
Will Branson's 'Project' Take Off
News & Tech,
Feb 2, 2011, 2:43 PM EST
Virgin wasted no time catching the attention of consumers with the launch of its iPad-only Project magazine in November. But does Project represent a new era of iPad-only pubs? Link
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News Corp. Launches 'The Daily'
NetNewsCheck,
Feb 2, 2011, 11:54 AM EST
Rupert Murdoch launched his long-awaited iPad-only newspaper The Daily at an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The product became available for download on the iTunes App Store at 12 p.m. Full Story
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News.me To Be NYT's Answer To 'The Daily'
TechCrunch,
Feb 2, 2011, 8:02 AM EST
The New York Times and betaworks are developing their answer to what an iPad news app should be. The collaboration will be called News.me, and it won’t look anything like The Daily. TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld got an early look at the app. Link
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News Corp.'s 'The Daily'
Murdoch To Give 'Daily' Sneak Peak Tonight
All Things Digital,
Feb 1, 2011, 3:55 PM EST
A select crowd at a "low key" cocktail party at Rupert Murdoch's apartment will get to see News Corp.s new iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, tonight. Link
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16% Of Galaxy Tabs Are Returned
All Things Digital,
Feb 1, 2011, 8:54 AM EST
Commentary
Why The Daily Will Succeed -- Or Not
Newsosaur,
Jan 31, 2011, 2:42 PM EST
Alan Mutter on the prospects of News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily: "The Daily, like any other start-up, will have to cross the chasm of anonymity and consumer indifference in order to amass the critical number of readers it needs to generate adequate subscription and advertising revenues. The longer The Daily takes to break even, the more expensive the venture will be for News Corp." Link
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IPad Publications Need A New Blueprint
TechCrunch,
Jan 31, 2011, 7:54 AM EST
Publications view the iPad as a new walled garden where people will pay to read the content they can get for free on their browsers, but the iPad experience is not yet better than on the Web. TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld believes its time for publishers to rethink the iPad app: "If I were creating an iPad mag it wouldn’t look like a magazine at all. It would look more like a media app, and there wouldn’t be any subscription or even distinct issues." Link
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Samsung Ships 2M Galaxy Tablets
Business Insider,
Jan 28, 2011, 8:29 AM EST
Microsoft Top Exec: Tablets Won't Hurt Us
Reuters,
Jan 28, 2011, 7:04 AM EST
Commentary
In Mobile World, The Interface Matters
LostRemote,
Jan 27, 2011, 3:24 PM EST
Steve Safran: "Do we know exactly how to engineer the best app possible? No. But we’re starting to get an idea of what presents a news and information experience that is rich and rewarding on the tablet. There’s a bonus to having a great news and information app: people have more reasons to stay longer. A great news interface presents a compelling experience when you 'poke around.'" Link
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The Daily's New Launch Date: Feb. 2
CNET,
Jan 27, 2011, 2:43 PM EST
News Corp. has chosen Feb. 2 for the launch of its iPad-only newspaper The Daily. The company has shifted the venue for the launch event from San Francisco to New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch will be joined by Apple vice president of Internet services Eddy Cue, rather than CEO Steve Jobs as previously planned. Link
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What's On The Table For Tablets In 2011
All Things Digital,
Jan 27, 2011, 8:35 AM EST
James Murdoch At DLD
99 Cents Per Week 'Makes Sense' For 'Daily'
PaidContent,
Jan 25, 2011, 6:54 AM EST
News Corp.'s James Murdoch told the audience at the Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich, Germany, that the 99-cent price for the company's new iPad-only newspaper The Daily is a "very good price that makes sense," and that "pricing models for apps and paid journalism in general is developing."
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Commentary
Apple's Bet On Publishing
Monday Note,
Jan 24, 2011, 2:58 PM EST
Frédéric Filloux: "One of the most interesting questions is Apple’s underlying strategy. In a nutshell, Cupertino is betting on 'many small' rather than on 'few big ones.' ... Small publishers can’t come up with the resources required to go after subscribers. The new App Store is designed for them." Link
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Plaints Over Sub Rules Draw Target On Apple
PaidContent,
Jan 21, 2011, 8:13 AM EST
Some publishers this week voiced concern about terms Apple is apparently requiring over subscription titles, and Belgium is already investigating whether that supposed strategy breaches antitrust law. Link
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Newsonomics of 'The Daily'
Murdoch's iPad Paper To Show Way For Pubs
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Jan 21, 2011, 7:31 AM EST
Author Ken Doctor: "It is impossible, of course, to make much sense of The Daily until we can actually read it. With iPad products, we’re often into that crazy first blush associated with any new digital device, confusing the device itself with the product." Link
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Bonnier, CP+B Team To Develop Tablet Ads
MediaPost,
Jan 20, 2011, 2:02 PM EST
Bonnier -- which has iPad editions of several of its magazines, including Popular Science, Popular Photography, Flying and several other titles -- is teaming with storied creative agency CP+B to develop new ad formats for tablet magazines. Link
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AOL Readies iPad Magazine 'That Reads You'
Business Insider,
Jan 20, 2011, 7:26 AM EST
AOL is ready to launch Editions, an iPad magazine that uses a person's interests to deliver content tailored to the reader. The tagline: "The Magazine That Reads You." Link
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Apple Not Bending Nudity Rules For Playboy
Forbes,
Jan 20, 2011, 7:11 AM EST
Playboy's new uncensored app for the iPad will be a browser app and not available via Apple's app store, allowing it to avoid Apple's no nudity rule. The magazine also plans to release a non-nude app that will adhere to Apple's policies and will be available in the app store. Link
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Playboy Magazine To Hit iPad In March
Mashable,
Jan 19, 2011, 8:41 AM EST
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner announced on Twitter that new issues of the magazine, as well as the entire back catalog, will become available on the iPad in March 2011. Hefner said the magazine will be uncensored, despite Apple's policy of not allowing adult material on the iOS platform. Link
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Magazines Struggle To Live With iPad
The New York Times,
Jan 17, 2011, 2:59 PM EST
Apple may offer new opportunities with the iPad, but it exacts a heavy toll. Magazine publishers argue in particular that limiting magazine sales on the iPad to single issues (except in a handful of cases) has hamstrung publishers from fully capitalizing on a new and lucrative business model. Link
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Media World Looks To Daily For iPad Model
Advertising Age,
Jan 17, 2011, 8:18 AM EST
News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily is one of the biggest bets on traditional journalism in years. The industry is looking to it to break the logjam that has tormented publishers attempting to move their subscription models to the iPad. Link
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Knowledge Networks Study:
86% Of iPad Users Prefer Ads To Paying
Advertising Age,
Jan 17, 2011, 7:20 AM EST
In a survey conducted by online research company Knowledge Networks, 86% of iPad owners said they would be willing to "watch" ads to gain access to free content such as TV shows or magazine and newspaper articles. Link
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Magazine Publishers Ready Tablet App Store
Fishbowl NY,
Jan 14, 2011, 2:52 PM EST
Time Inc., Condé Nast, Hearst Corp. and Meredith Corp. are adding the finishing touches to their tablet app store. Morgan Guenther, CEO of the venture dubbed Next Issue Media, said it should launch within the next few months. Link
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RIM To Ship 1M PlayBook Tablets In 1Q 2011
DigiTimes,
Jan 14, 2011, 8:26 AM EST
The Daily's Launch Date Delayed
All Things Digital,
Jan 14, 2011, 6:57 AM EST
Apple and News Corp. have decided to push back next week's launch of Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only daily newspaper. The problem is with the new subscription feature Apple is building into iTunes. The publication was scheduled to debut at an event at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art next Wednesday but has been pushed back by "weeks," according to reports. Link
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NYT iPad App Nears 1.5M Downloads
Beet.tv,
Jan 13, 2011, 3:51 PM EST
Ray Pearce, head of circulation for The New York Times, told Beet.tv that the paper is approaching 1.5 million downloads for its iPad apps and that all platforms -- including print -- are doing well.
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A First Look At News Corp.'s iPad Paper
Poynter,
Jan 13, 2011, 3:22 PM EST
The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's new iPad-only newspaper, is slated to launch sometime next week, but Poynter's Damon Kiesow has an early look at the publication. Link
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Tablets Change Users' Reading Habits
Read It Later,
Jan 13, 2011, 8:09 AM EST
While many have speculated that the iPad is going to replace printed newspaper and magazines, it is already changing the way we read online content too. According to a study by Read It Later, tablet computers are changing when and where users access online content. Link
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Broadway Box Streams Live TV To iPhones, iPads
TUAW,
Jan 12, 2011, 3:46 PM EST
'Project' Issue No. 2 Hits Production Delays
PaidContent,
Jan 12, 2011, 3:22 PM EST
The second issue of Virgin's iPad-only magazine Project hit a snag, delayed because "particularly pernicious gremlins have briefly postponed the release of Project issue 2. Think of it as 'difficult second album' syndrome, but with more XML programming," according to the company. Link
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Condé Nast Tries Single-Serving iPad App
All Things Digital,
Jan 11, 2011, 3:37 PM EST
Condé Nast is trying a different iPad tactic with its new "Best of Italy: Condé Nast Traveler" app. It’s a $4.99 compilation of the magazine’s earlier articles and is sponsored by pasta maker Barilla. Link
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Jobs To Join Murdoch For Daily Unveil
Yahoo News,
Jan 11, 2011, 7:03 AM EST
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will join News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch onstage at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to unveil The Daily, News Corp.'s new iPad-only newspaper. The publication is expected to launch Jan. 19. Link
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News Corp.'s Daily Set To Launch Next Week
Forbes,
Jan 10, 2011, 3:15 PM EST
News Corp. has set Jan. 19 as the launch date for its new iPad only newspaper The Daily -- which has a landing page with a "Coming Soon" message at thedaily.com. Link
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Apps Irk Cable Networks
MediaWeek,
Jan 10, 2011, 8:45 AM EST
Comcast’s scheme to begin streaming live video content to iPads and other tablets precipitated a flurry of legal correspondence last week, as several cable network groups made it clear that they had not signed off on any such arrangement. Link
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The Daily Vs. The Daily
Fashion Mag Sold; News Corp. Dispute Lingers
Fishbowl NY,
Jan 7, 2011, 3:39 PM EST
CES 2011
Hulu Plus Heads To Android Devices
ReadWriteWeb,
Jan 7, 2011, 3:03 PM EST
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and Samsung U.S. president Tim Baxter announced yesterday during a CES keynote address that Hulu Plus, the premium version of the streaming service for TV and movies, will be coming to Android devices in the near future. Link
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Newsonomics of Tablet Computers
Papers Need To Prepare For Digital Future
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Jan 6, 2011, 3:33 PM EST
Entering 2011, no U.S. news company makes more than 16% of its total revenues from digital; all depend on print for 84% or more of their journalist-paying income. Author Ken Doctor asks what will happen if readers drop print for tablet editions faster than expected: "It’s great that readers want -- and may pay for -- news on the tablet, but if they flee print more quickly, how will that play havoc with the business model of news and magazine publishing?" Link
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CES 2011
Comcast To Air Live TV on iPads, Tablets
MediaPost,
Jan 5, 2011, 3:24 PM EST
Comcast says it plans to offer live television programming on iPads and other tablets later this year. For the iPad alone, Comcast says it will provide nearly 3,000 hours of TV content on demand. Link
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Survey: iPad Not A Kindle Killer
TechCrunch,
Jan 3, 2011, 4:12 PM EST
TV Maker Vizio Turns To Phones And Tablets
All Things Digital,
Jan 3, 2011, 8:20 AM EST
Samsung Galaxy S Passes 10M Units Sold
The Next Web,
Jan 3, 2011, 7:50 AM EST
Commentary
IPad Won't Salvage Today's Journalism Model
Measuring Measures,
Jan 3, 2011, 7:39 AM EST
Bradford Cross: "The iPad is a delightful device, but it can't salvage the existing model for journalism. ... A modern approach to news needs to regain the homogeneous experience we had with the newspapers of old. But it needs to do so with much more focused relevance from a much broader pool of content. It also needs to integrate with social, which is more or less important depending on the content." Link
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Google Plans E-Newsstand To Battle Apple
The Wall Street Journal,
Jan 3, 2011, 7:22 AM EST
Google is trying to drum up publishers' support for a new Google-operated digital newsstand that would include apps from media companies offering versions of their publications for users of devices that run its Android software and compete against Apple's efforts. Link
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Commentary
IPad Offers 3 Lessons For Media Companies
Poynter,
Dec 31, 2010, 8:31 AM EST
The rise of tablet computers hasn't yet proven to be a savior for magazines and newspapers, but it has provided some insight into design, innovation and paying for content. Link
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Commentary: iPad Publications
An App Is Not A Digital Content Strategy
GigaOM,
Dec 31, 2010, 7:29 AM EST
Matthew Ingram: "Simply wrapping your content in a shiny package designed by Adobe isn’t going to convince vast numbers of people to pay you every month for it, especially when it costs as much as or more than the print version. Having audio and video clips and other interactive doo-dads is nice, but it simply isn’t worth the premium some publishers are charging. As we have pointed out before, many iPad apps look an awful lot like the early days of CD-ROM editions." Link
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Commentary: Digital Newspapers
Forget Form, Concentrate On Content
PaidContent,
Dec 30, 2010, 2:57 PM EST
CEO of London-based startup Timetric Andrew Walkingshaw say for newspaper tablet apps, form is not nearly as important as content: "[News Corp.s The Times iPad app] doesn’t have a form problem: it has a content problem. I don’t care about its content nearly enough to pay. I didn’t care enough when it was free, and now it’s trying to charge me money in a saturated market for an inferior experience. ... If I care enough about your content, you can give it to me on stone tablets in cuneiform and I’ll find a way to use it." Link
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Commentary
How To Rescue Magazine Sales On iPad
Newsosaur,
Dec 30, 2010, 2:43 PM EST
Alan Mutter: "Publishers seeking to build iPad volume would do well to read the disappointing reviews of the Wired app on the iTunes page where the magazine is sold." Link
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Report: Kindle Matches iPad Production
AppleInsider,
Dec 30, 2010, 7:23 AM EST
The Good, Bad And Ugly Of Media iPad Apps
GigaOM,
Dec 29, 2010, 3:33 PM EST
Some media outlets got it right when designing their iPad apps -- Gourmet Live, The Big Picture and Huffington Post -- while others fell flat -- The New York Times and Wired. Link
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Guns & Ammo Targets Revenue With Game App
Min Online,
Dec 29, 2010, 3:20 PM EST
Commentary
How Online News Evolved In 2010
The Next Web,
Dec 29, 2010, 2:52 PM EST
Paywalls, hyperlocal sites, WikiLeaks, Twitter and iPads changed the way news was researched, reported and consumed online during the past year. Link
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ABC: Tablet Magazine Sales Decline
WWD,
Dec 29, 2010, 8:50 AM EST
Digital sales dropped toward the end of 2010 for all the magazines that make those figures available to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Link
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Analyst: iPad Shipments Will Hit 65M In 2011
Business Insider,
Dec 29, 2010, 8:03 AM EST
Cape Cod Times Launches iPad Photo App
NetNewsCheck,
Dec 28, 2010, 3:27 PM EST
Cape Cod Media Group this week announced the launch of its first iPad app, CapeCodOnline.com/PIX, showcasing the photography of the Cape Cod Times. The app features a daily gallery of a dozen to two dozen photos. Full Story
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Mossberg: iPad Was 2010's Top Tech Product
The Wall Street Journal,
Dec 28, 2010, 7:03 AM EST
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg picked Apple's iPad tablet computer as his top tech product of 2010.
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Kindle Becomes Amazon's All-Time Best Seller
ReadWriteWeb,
Dec 27, 2010, 2:52 PM EST
Commentary
Magazines Begin Slow Transformation In 2010
PBS MediaShift,
Dec 27, 2010, 7:13 AM EST
California State University, Fresno, assistant rofessor Susan Currie Sivek: "It's been a year of high expectations but little fulfillment for those who thought 2010 might forever change the way we read magazines. We've seen that disappointing uses of new tools, limited audience interest, and small initial financial returns are going to result in a gradual shift, not a sudden transformation." Link
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News Corp. U.K. Papers Run iPad XMas Editions
PaidContent,
Dec 27, 2010, 6:34 AM EST
Will The Daily Evolve Corrections For Tablets
PBS MediaShift,
Dec 22, 2010, 4:02 PM EST
Salon.com co-founder Scott Rosenberg has a few questions for News Corp.'s new daily iPad publication, primarily how it will handle corrections: "How do you let the public talk back to you and tell you when you've made a mistake? How do you show them when you've decided to fix something? Do you wait for your next "daily" update or do you revise on the fly?" Link
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Toshiba Unveils Solar-Powered E-Reader
Fast Company,
Dec 22, 2010, 3:14 PM EST
News Of The World Pricier On iPad Than On Paper
PaidContent,
Dec 22, 2010, 6:50 AM EST
Amazon Will Sell Over 8 Million This Year
Business Insider,
Dec 21, 2010, 3:43 PM EST
Microsoft Creates Windows For Tablets, Phones
Business Insider,
Dec 21, 2010, 3:32 PM EST
IPad Leads 25% Rise In Holiday Electronics Buys
NewsFactor,
Dec 20, 2010, 3:05 PM EST
Apple's iPad Altering Concept Of A Book
Guardian,
Dec 20, 2010, 7:44 AM EST
Best Buy Bundles Mobile Hotspots With iPad
9 to 5 Mac,
Dec 20, 2010, 6:52 AM EST
Vevo Launches iPad Music Video App
Adweek,
Dec 17, 2010, 2:42 PM EST
Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Co. joint venture Vevo this week launched a free iPad application that for the first time makes thousands of music videos available for streaming on the device. Link
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News Corp. iPad Paper Sets Jan. 17 Launch
All Things Digital,
Dec 17, 2010, 2:20 PM EST
News Corp. plans to launch its iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, the week of Jan. 17. Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly may or may not participate in a launch event. Link
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RIM Beats Revenue, Earnings Estimates
The Street,
Dec 17, 2010, 8:41 AM EST
Commentary
3 Ways iPad Will Revolutionize Celeb Mag Covers
Huffington Post,
Dec 16, 2010, 3:57 PM EST
CNN.com GM: 'Touch Imagery' Is Key
Poynter,
Dec 16, 2010, 3:35 PM EST
CNN.com general manager Kenneth Estenson: “It turns out you want to touch imagery more than words. That was the fundamental design conceit behind it. Lead with high quality imagery.” Link
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Apple Gears Up To Sell 6M iPad 2s Per Quarter
Business Insider,
Dec 16, 2010, 7:57 AM EST
Tablets Change Views On What Is A PC
CNET,
Dec 16, 2010, 7:46 AM EST
Color E-Readers Open Door For Pictures
The New York Times,
Dec 15, 2010, 7:37 AM EST
Apple Rolls Out First iPad iAd, It's For 'Tron'
Business Insider,
Dec 15, 2010, 7:28 AM EST
Mobile Video
78% Of Net Video Encoded For Apple Devices
TechCrunch,
Dec 14, 2010, 2:17 PM EST
According to Encoding.com, which encodes about 1 million videos per month for everyone from MTV to PBS, nearly 78% of its customers encode their mobile video to play on Apple iOS devices (iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches), whereas only 4% encode specifically for Android devices. The remaining 18% encode for the 3GP format, which is used by feature phones. Link
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CNN Launches Interactive iPad App
MediaWeek,
Dec 14, 2010, 1:53 PM EST
NY Daily News Rolls Out Inexpensive iPad App
Forbes,
Dec 14, 2010, 7:43 AM EST
Harper's Magazine Launches On iPad
Fishbowl NY,
Dec 14, 2010, 7:40 AM EST
Marketers Test Ads In E-Books
The Wall Street Journal,
Dec 13, 2010, 6:49 AM EST
Reynolds Journalism Institute survey
58% Of iPad News Readers May Drop Print
Paid Content,
Dec 10, 2010, 6:15 AM EST
A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users found that 58.1% of those who devote about an hour a day reading news on the device are “very likely” to cancel their print subscriptions within six months. But that could change if the price of accessing their newspaper apps go higher. Link
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Blackberry PlayBook Video Demo
BGR,
Dec 9, 2010, 5:34 PM EST
Bonnier Joins iPad-Only Publishing Ranks
MediaBuyerPlanner,
Dec 9, 2010, 4:05 PM EST
Bonnier is launching Roadtrip, a tablet-only publication that focuses on cars and travel and geared for "anybody who savors the journey as much as the destination." The company is launching a preview edition now and will roll out regular editions beginning next year. Link
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IPad-Smuggling Housewives Detained In China
The Wall Street Journal,
Dec 9, 2010, 9:03 AM EST
B&N: We're Making 18,000 Nook Colors Per Day
CNET,
Dec 8, 2010, 2:14 PM EST
RIM: PlayBook OS Is Future For Phones, Tabs
Apple Insider,
Dec 8, 2010, 8:23 AM EST
Apple's Next iPad Will Use An LCD Display
9 to 5 Mac,
Dec 8, 2010, 8:14 AM EST
Gourmet Live App Adds Back Issues, Collections
PaidContent,
Dec 7, 2010, 3:54 PM EST
CNBC Brings Free Real-Time Data To iPad
PaidContent,
Dec 7, 2010, 3:51 PM EST
New Devices Alter Playing Field For Chip Makers
CNET,
Dec 6, 2010, 8:38 AM EST
Branson: 'Project' Will 'Sink Or Swim' On Its Own
Guardian,
Dec 6, 2010, 8:05 AM EST
Mag Apps Not Yet Luring Serious Ad Dollars
Brandweek,
Dec 6, 2010, 6:55 AM EST
Magazine publishers are pouring money into apps, seduced by the notion that tablet computers can open a new avenue to make money from their content. But with only 8 million iPads in circulation the audience is currently too small to attract serious ad dollars.
with only 8 million iPads in circulation the audience is currently too small to attract serious ad dollars.
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Conde Nast: The Daily 'Doesn't Make Sense'
Venture Beat,
Dec 3, 2010, 8:33 AM EST
Conde Nast Digital president Sarah Chubb at SAI's Ignition conference cited the large amount of money Rupert Murdoch is spending on journalists for News Corp.'s new iPad newspaper The Daily said the venture "doesn't make any sense." Link
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News Corp.'s iPad Paper Adds To Staff
The Village Voice,
Dec 3, 2010, 7:05 AM EST
Flipboard Tries New Looks For Media, Ads
PaidContent,
Dec 3, 2010, 7:27 AM EST
Flipboard, whichcalls itself a personalized "social magazine" for iPad, hasn't quite lived up to that billing. This week, the site rolled out a trial aimed at living up to that definition and towards fulfilling its promise as a platform for content, advertising and revenue.
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2010/12/02/three-questions-to-ask-about-barry-dillers-move/
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Dish Offers Full TV Everywhere iPad Service
MediaPost,
Dec 2, 2010, 2:51 PM EST
Dish Network says it is now the first pay TV service to provide full "TV Everywhere" service -- all its channels and programming -- on the iPad. Link
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BBC Plans Subscription-Only U.S. iPlayer On iPad
PaidContent,
Dec 2, 2010, 6:40 AM EST
Google Reader Gets Android App
ReadWriteWeb,
Dec 1, 2010, 3:40 PM EST
Apple's iPad Becoming TV's Second Screen
Lost Remote,
Dec 1, 2010, 3:11 PM EST
When the iPad made its debut, most of the press focused on how it could change with world of print, but the device appears to be well on its way to changing the world of television.
Highlights from new U.S. Mobile Ad Revenue Forecast to be presented during Mobile SuperForum session at next week’s ILM:10 conference in Silicon Valley
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FT Finds Success With iPad App
Guardian,
Dec 1, 2010, 8:54 AM EST
Debate Rages Over Mudoch's iPad Pub
The New York Observer,
Dec 1, 2010, 7:13 AM EST
Rupert Murdoch's new iPad-only publication The Daily has divide observers into two camps: Those who hate it, and those who see it as the second coming. Link
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Launch Set For Google Editions E-Book Store
The Washington Post,
Dec 1, 2010, 6:37 AM EST
Economist 'Barebones' iPad App Gets Job Done
VentureBeat,
Nov 30, 2010, 2:58 PM EST
Virgin Launches iPad Mag 'Project'
Electronista,
Nov 30, 2010, 2:49 PM EST
Virgin today formally launched Project, a publication it claims is the first purely digital magazine available. The magazine, which charges $3 per month, features a mix of design, entertainment and technology and delivers interactive and live content.
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News Corp.'s iPad Paper Lures More Staffers
The Village Voice,
Nov 30, 2010, 8:37 AM EST
Xbox Kinect Sells Twice As Fast As iPad
ReadWriteWeb,
Nov 30, 2010, 7:23 AM EST
TiVO Planning To Turn iPads Into 'Remote Controls'
Television Broadcast,
Nov 24, 2010, 5:18 PM EST
OK! Magazine Launches Paid iPad App
PressGazette,
Nov 24, 2010, 3:14 PM EST
Commentary
Zuckerberg Was Right: The iPad Is Not Mobile
Poynter Online,
Nov 24, 2010, 2:17 PM EST
Poynter Online's Damon Kiesow says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was right about the iPad not being mobile: "Early studies show that iPad use is mostly confined to the home, the device is being shared among members of the household, and activity peaks in the evenings and weekends. In other words: leisure time, not mobile time. Almost every media app for the iPad fits this mold: designed for 'lean-back' consumption, not the active information-seeking behavior of a smart phone user." Link
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Apple iPad
December Launch Date Set For iOS 4.3
Into Mobile,
Nov 24, 2010, 8:20 AM EST
Apple may have rolled out the iOS 4.2 iPad operating system earlier this week, but that hasn't stopped the company from setting a mid-December release date for the next iteration of the system. The iOS 4.3 will support app subscriptions and will debut shortly before News Corp. launches The Daily, an iPad-only newspaper. Link
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Why Media Apps May Not Be A Good Biz
Forbes,
Nov 24, 2010, 7:29 AM EST
Jeff Bercovici: "App-based publishing, like print publishing, is a cost-heavy, money-losing proposition." Link
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Acer Set To Debut Android 2.2 Tablet
DigiTimes,
Nov 23, 2010, 8:41 AM EST
News Corp. Buys Wireless Generation
Education Tech Buy Could Help iPad Paper
The Next Web,
Nov 23, 2010, 7:54 AM EST
Apple Releases iOS 4.2 for iPad And iPhone
Digital Trends,
Nov 22, 2010, 3:34 PM EST
News Corp.'s iPad Newspaper
Murdoch's 'No. 1 Most Exciting Project'
The New York Times,
Nov 22, 2010, 7:55 AM EST
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch believes he can bring the newspaper into the new media era -- and make it profitable too. Murdoch's new national paper, The Daily, which he calls his "No. 1 most exciting project," is strictly an iPad product and he is betting that consumer's will be willing to pay to read it. Link
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iPad 2.0: New Design, Manufacture Process?
CNET,
Nov 19, 2010, 3:22 PM EST
CBS News Mag '60 Minutes' Gets iPad App
CBS News.com,
Nov 19, 2010, 8:44 AM EST
CBS's 60 Minutes is now available on iPad -- the first primetime news magazine to have its own stand-alone application. 60 Minutes content from the TV broadcast and its online features will be offered on the new app, available for $4.99 from the iTunes App Store. Link
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Begun, The Tablet Wars Have
Samsung's Galaxy Is iPad's First Serious Challenger
Salon,
Nov 19, 2010, 8:20 AM EST
Dell's Inspiron Duo Hits Shelves In Early December
Engadget,
Nov 19, 2010, 7:08 AM EST
TJ Maxx, Marshalls To Sell $400 iPads For Holidays
Into Mobile,
Nov 19, 2010, 7:05 AM EST
Economist Debuts iPad App, Targets 1M Paid Subs
PaidContent,
Nov 18, 2010, 3:42 PM EST
Are iPad Mag Apps Profitable In Long Haul?
PBS MediaShift,
Nov 18, 2010, 8:25 AM EST
Teeming Media senior VP Dorian Benkoil: "It's easy to see why the editors are excited. After watching print subscriptions, newsstand sales and advertising drop sharply, and unable to make up the difference on the Web, they now see a way to regain the ability to not only charge consumers but also make advertisers pay a premium to reach them." Link
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10 Distribution Channels For Mobile Apps
ReadWriteWeb,
Nov 17, 2010, 3:57 PM EST
At the recent Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, Patrick Mork, CMO of the second largest mobile application store GetJar, discussed the large number of channels now available to application developers for distributing apps, and encouraged them to utilize as many channels as resources allow. Link
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Independent's Spinoff i Launches Paid iPad App
Guardian,
Nov 17, 2010, 2:41 PM EST
Oprah Releases Gets iPad App, Premium Ads Only
PaidContent,
Nov 16, 2010, 3:00 PM EST
News Corp. iPad Paper Lands Culture Editor
The New York Times,
Nov 16, 2010, 2:17 PM EST
Okla. Paper Treat iPad App Like Print Product
Poynter Online,
Nov 16, 2010, 8:31 AM EST
David Thompson, publisher of The Oklahoman: "We intend to keep [The Oklahoman's] iPad edition as a paid subscription model. We do, however, plan to sell premium advertising positions throughout the application. We know this is a great opportunity for potential advertisers to reach willing and active news consumers that are early adopters to new technology. We are actively working with advertising customers to find the right fit for this audience." Link
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Report: Dell Hybrid Tablet Due Next Week
Mashable,
Nov 16, 2010, 7:49 AM EST
Web 2.0 Summit
A Closer Look At Comcast’s Xfinity TV App
NewTeeVee,
Nov 16, 2010, 7:29 AM EST
Comcast yesterday released its Xfinity iPad app, which allows users to browse the cable operator's guide, record shows and find on-demand video. GigaOm's Ryan Lawler took the app for a spin at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday.
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Business Insider Survey
Browser Top Way To Consume News On iPad
Business Insider,
Nov 15, 2010, 4:41 PM EST
Comcast Rolls Out TV App For iPad
MarketWatch,
Nov 15, 2010, 2:27 PM EST
Comcast said today that it will unveil an application for Apple Inc.'s iPad that allows Comcast digital subscribers to watch movies and TV shows on the tablet, starting next month.The first version of the Xfinity TV app will be available on Apple's iTunes Store this week. Link
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Early Winners And Losers In Digital Book Game
Monday Note,
Nov 15, 2010, 7:30 AM EST
Commentary: Mobile Business Models
'Freemium' Could Be The Answer For Papers
Poynter Online,
Nov 12, 2010, 3:00 PM EST
The "freemium" model for iPhone apps, or free downloads with in-app upgrades, have gained momentum with developers and consumers: about one-third of the top-grossing iPhone apps use that model, according to a report in GigaOm. Poynter Online's Damon Kiesow believes freemium might be the answer for newspaper searching for a mobile business model: "If truly freemium experiences are becoming accepted and popular among consumers, newspapers would be smart to develop mobile apps that let readers get the basics for free, and charge for the full experience." Link
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Monaco Media Forum
News Corp.'s Murdoch: iPad Hurting Papers
TUAW,
Nov 12, 2010, 2:41 PM EST
News Corp.'s James Murdoch, speaking at the Monaco Media Forum, said that the iPad has had a direct impact on newspaper sales. Murdoch said that the apps were "much more directly cannibalistic" than Web sites, as subscribers read the apps in a manner similar to how they read traditional newspapers. Link
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Tablet Computers
Matchbin Builds Newsstand For Local Pubs
BIA/Kelsey,
Nov 12, 2010, 1:23 PM EST
Utah-based content management system builder Matchbin has created a tablet newsstand that lets local publishers avoid the need to build expensive custom applications. Link
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Nvidia CEO: Flood Of Android Tablets On The Way
CNET,
Nov 12, 2010, 8:09 AM EST
Flash For Galaxy Called 'Embarrassing Disaster'
Business Insider,
Nov 12, 2010, 7:34 AM EST
Wi-Fi Bug Delays iOS 4.2 Release For iPad
TUAW,
Nov 12, 2010, 7:22 AM EST
13% Of iPad Users 'Highly Likely' to Cut Pay TV
Broadcasting & Cable,
Nov 12, 2010, 6:51 AM EST
New App Hopes to Make Book Reading Communal
The New York Times,
Nov 11, 2010, 3:53 PM EST
MSL App A Preview For Print/Digital Hybrid
PaidContent,
Nov 11, 2010, 3:48 PM EST
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has released a second iPad app that serves as a preview of what’s to come and a clearer expression of its evolving approach to digital, print and TV. MSLO editorial director and creative head Gael Towey last week said the app, which features all original "magazine" content, will influence the way the traditional magazine is produced when the hybrid print/digital version is released next year. Link
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Samsung Galaxy Tablet First Real iPad Rival
All Things Digital,
Nov 11, 2010, 3:21 PM EST
Tablet Magazine Store To Launch For Android
All Things Digital,
Nov 11, 2010, 3:19 PM EST
Next Issue Media, described as a "Hulu for magazines," will open its digital newsstand early next year -- but only for users with devices that run Google's Android operating system. The reason the mazine store is bypassing Apple's iPad, at least initially, is that publishers want to be able to sell their tablet magazines directly to consumers, or be able to access the data that iTunes collects when it sells them. Link
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Commentary
Designing The Washington Post's iPad App
Sarah Sampsel,
Nov 10, 2010, 3:47 PM EST
Sarah Sampsel: "Before getting started, I gave some serious thought to the following questions: How do I approach design for a device that has yet to develop standards and rules? What is the best way to showcase The Washington Post in this space? Who will download the app — are they print subscribers? Do they use washingtonpost.com? Are they local? How do we want people to use this product?" Link
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For Developers iOS Vs. Android Misses Point
Urban Airship,
Nov 10, 2010, 3:39 PM EST
Woodward, Bradlee In WaPo's iPad Ad
NetNewsCheck,
Nov 10, 2010, 3:47 PM EST
Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee co-star with Apple's iPad in The Washington Post's iPad app commercial.
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ESPN's Skipper: iPad Not Print's Savior
MarketWatch,
Nov 10, 2010, 3:30 PM EST
ESPN executive vice president for content John Skipper warned that the iPad will not save print. “The savior for paper products is not the iPad,” he told MarketWatch. “You have to create content for that new device that can best be distributed on that new device. I don’t think that’s 120 static pages and I don’t think that being able to click on pictures, and have it be video, changes it. It’s static, it sits still in time.” Link
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WSJ Releases App For Android Tablets
NetNewsCheck,
Nov 10, 2010, 2:52 PM EST
iPad Is Bringing Excitment To Newsrooms
MediaWeek,
Nov 10, 2010, 10:31 AM EST
Publications are beginning to see the differences of content on Apple's iPad vs. in print and online, and are taking advantage of the tablet's ability to embed other media in stories. Link
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BlackBerry Tablet Priced At Under $500
BusinessWeek,
Nov 10, 2010, 9:38 AM EST
College Tablet Kno To Debut at $599
The New York Times,
Nov 9, 2010, 8:24 AM EST
Amazon Sets 70% Rev Share For Kindle Store
NetNewsCheck,
Nov 9, 2010, 7:31 AM EST
Amazon announced a new revenue-share model for the Kindle store that gives publishers 70% of the retail price for every newspaper or magazine sold. Full Story
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Color Comes To E Ink Screens For E-Books
The New York Times,
Nov 8, 2010, 2:11 PM EST
Washington Post Introduces iPad App
The Washington Post,
Nov 8, 2010, 1:56 PM EST
The Washington Post today debuted its new app for Apple's iPad. The app allows users to read top stories from the Post, view aggregated content and interact with integrated social network features. Link
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Hearst Magazines Polishes Its App Strategy
eMedia Vitals,
Nov 5, 2010, 11:50 AM EDT
Newsonomics Of Kindle Singles
Kindle Could Bring Something New To Papers
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Nov 4, 2010, 5:10 PM EDT
Ken Doctor: "Kindle Singles may open the door even further to wider news business application, for news companies -- old and new, publicly funded and profit-seeking, text-based and video-oriented." Link
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Audit Bureau of Circulations Report
Publishers Bullish On Mobile Content, Tablets
NetNewsCheck,
Nov 4, 2010, 4:58 PM EDT
Publishers are paying more attention to mobile content, according to a study from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The report, "Going Mobile: How Publishers Are Solidifying Strategies and Adapting to the Mobile Market," found that 87% of ABC's members said mobile was receiving more attention at their publication -- 37% expect mobile to significantly impact their revenue in just two years. Tablets and e-readers are also drawing interest, with 42% believing the devices would become vital distribution channels in the near future.
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MS Exec: Tablets Are Cannibalizing Netbooks
Seattle PI,
Nov 4, 2010, 3:53 PM EDT
The Journey From App To Monetization
ReadWriteWeb,
Nov 4, 2010, 10:33 AM EDT
Netflix Model Spreads To College E-Texts
Reuters,
Nov 4, 2010, 8:33 AM EDT
Samsung Rolls Out Tablet In Korea
The Wall Street Journal,
Nov 4, 2010, 8:06 AM EDT
iPad Not Mobile Enough For Facebook
TechCrunch,
Nov 4, 2010, 6:15 AM EDT
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was pretty blunt when it came to explaining why there wasn’t an iPad launch during today’s mobile event: “The iPad isn’t mobile.” But he and the company's head of mobile products Erick Tseng indicated that a future Facebook tablet app is likely. Link
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Startup Makes iPad Mag Subscriptions Easy
ReadWriteWeb,
Nov 3, 2010, 1:46 PM EDT
Google Sponsors New York Magazine iPad App
Mobile Marketer,
Nov 2, 2010, 8:17 AM EDT
Life Magazine Launches Photo Gallery App
The Next Web,
Nov 2, 2010, 7:52 AM EDT
'Newsweek' Offers iPad App With Subscription
The New York Times,
Nov 1, 2010, 11:20 PM EDT
NYT Launches Tablet Friendly Election Results Map
Poynter Online,
Nov 1, 2010, 4:21 PM EDT
iPad Not Yet Great Vehicle For Magazines
Adweek,
Nov 1, 2010, 7:42 AM EDT
Nook Color, Dell Streak: Tablets In Disguise?
Fast Company,
Oct 29, 2010, 4:38 PM EDT
Competition Offers E-Reader Fans More Options
The New York Times,
Oct 29, 2010, 1:12 PM EDT
A Cheat Sheet For Buying a Tablet
The New York Times,
Oct 29, 2010, 7:25 AM EDT
iPad Rivals Say Other Tablets Not So 'Dead'
Wall Street Journal,
Oct 22, 2010, 12:31 PM EDT
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs declared the seven-inch tablet "dead on arrival" this week. But app developers, wireless operators and technology analysts aren't so sure.
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Nielsen: News, Music Most Popular On iPad
Poynter,
Oct 21, 2010, 4:19 PM EDT
A new Nielsen study of "Internet connected devices" reveals that news and music are the most popular types of content on the iPad, and users spend more time per session with each than on the iPhone. Link
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Samsung Tablet Arrives Nov. 11 At $600
CNET,
Oct 20, 2010, 4:43 PM EDT
Gartner: Tablet Sales To Hit 19.5m This Year
Gartner,
Oct 15, 2010, 12:39 PM EDT
Forrester Research
Tablet, eReader Editions May Fetch 1/3 Price
Editor and Publisher,
Oct 15, 2010, 8:59 AM EDT
Among the details shared at the World Association of Newspapers' International E-Reading and Tablets Conference: Forrester found U.S. mobile readers willing to pay a third the print-subscription price. Link
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Commentary
Boomers Fuel The Boom In Tablets & Net TVs
Fierce Online Video,
Oct 14, 2010, 8:07 AM EDT
Kindle Singles: A New Format For News?
Nieman Journalism Lab,
Oct 12, 2010, 4:52 PM EDT
“Kindle Singles” are twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book. Kindle Singles will have their own section in the Kindle Store and be priced much less than a typical book. Link
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Gartner Updates Hype Cycle: Tablets, Net TV
Gartner,
Oct 11, 2010, 7:49 AM EDT
News Orgs Plan Apps For Samsung Tablet
Wall Street Journal,
Oct 8, 2010, 8:09 AM EDT
New York Times Co. and News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal will offer Android software applications for Samsung's Galaxy Tab, which goes on sale later this year, according to people familiar with the matter. Gannett Co.'s USA Today also is developing a software application. Link
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Consultant Shows Foldable Tablet Concept
Poynter,
Oct 7, 2010, 3:37 PM EDT
Speaking at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg. Juan Antonio Giner unveiled his company's concept for a foldable digital media tablet called the NewsSlate. It is apparently purely speculative, but just a year ago, multimedia tablet magazine concepts seemed like science fiction as well.
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Color, Video & 'Zero Power' 3 Years Away
New Screen Tech: Best Of Tablet & eReader
Daily Tech,
Oct 7, 2010, 8:40 AM EDT
WoodWing Expands Tools For Tablet Editions
Editor and Publisher,
Oct 5, 2010, 1:30 PM EDT
MEI Offers Training, Design for Tablet Apps
Editor and Publisher,
Sep 30, 2010, 4:51 PM EDT
Hearst: Bullish On Tablets, Not Paywalls
Mashable,
Sep 28, 2010, 2:24 PM EDT
Tablet Revolution: It's The '70s All Over Again
Steve Yelvington,
Sep 23, 2010, 8:56 AM EDT
"Some things we should have learned from previous revolutions and skirmishes: You can't learn by sitting on the sidelines, and Don't rush into a permanent committment." Link | Add comment
Blackberry Tablet To Debut Next Week?
Wall Street Journal,
Sep 22, 2010, 7:13 AM EDT
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. could unveil its new tablet computer, which some inside RIM are calling the BlackPad, as early as next week, said people familiar with RIM's plans. Link
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Apple Woos Publishers On iPad Subscriptions
Wall Street Journal,
Sep 20, 2010, 8:36 AM EDT
Apple could announce a print-subscription offering as early as the next month or two, some of the people familiar with the matter said. One of these people cautioned that Apple is still working on the technology and may prefer to announce its periodical service early next year, along with the likely introduction of a new iPad. Link
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Best Buy: iPad Cannibalizing Laptops By 50%
Business Insider,
Sep 17, 2010, 9:02 AM EDT
Inergize Teams Up For iPad & Mobile Firsts
NetNewsCheck.com,
Sep 16, 2010, 12:02 PM EDT
Inergize Digital has partnered with Weather Central and AdPay to offer a broad tablet- and mobile- publishing system that comobines classifieds, weather radar, self-serve advertising and a number of other "first to market" features for local media customers.
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Commentary
Why Tablet Publishing Kills The Daily Paper
eWeek,
Sep 16, 2010, 12:02 PM EDT
J. Gerry Purdy: "With the iPad just a few months old and an onslaught of tablets hitting the market in the next six months, you'd expect that at least one major newspaper publisher would likely reorganize itself to adapt to the new world of digital publishing on tablets." Link
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Mediaspectrum Adds iPad-Publishing System
Editor and Publisher,
Sep 15, 2010, 12:30 PM EDT
Mediaspectrum has introduced Adrenalin as a complete content, advertising and subscription solution for publishers seeking to create customized news-reading apps for Apple's iPad and other tablets. Link
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iOS 4.2 For iPad, iPhone, iPod Open For Dev
TechCrunch,
Sep 15, 2010, 2:01 PM EDT
New Kindle Ad Takes A Bite At The iPad
App Advice,
Sep 13, 2010, 3:28 PM EDT
The iPad is, it definitely has a weak spot: sunlight, as Amazon points out in its new Kindle ads.
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CBS News Launches Free iPad App
Webnewser,
Sep 13, 2010, 3:23 PM EDT
Watch The Video
iPad vs. Newspaper, Fly-Swatting Edition
New York Times,
Sep 10, 2010, 3:33 PM EDT
Funny commercial for Newsday's iPad app is generating lots of ... buzz.
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Best Buy To Start Selling The Kindle
CNET,
Sep 9, 2010, 12:04 PM EDT
Forget Netbooks, iPad Cannibalizing All PCs
All Things Digital,
Sep 8, 2010, 9:06 AM EDT
Mags Offer iPad Subscriptions Via Zinio
All Things Digital,
Sep 7, 2010, 10:21 AM EDT
Unlike much bigger rival Sports Illustrated, and almost all of the other big magazine titles that have moved to the iPad so far, the Sporting News has a subscription model. How’d they do that when the big guys can’t? By letting digital newsstand operator Zinio handle the transaction. Link
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Boston.com Big Picture Now An iPad App
Editor and Publisher,
Sep 7, 2010, 8:42 AM EDT
The Big Picture, Boston.com's popular blog, is now available as an iPad and iPhone app. The photo blog presents news stories solely through large-format, high-quality photographs gathered from news services worldwide. Link
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Atlantic To Follow iPad App With Premium App
PaidContent,
Sep 7, 2010, 7:35 AM EDT
Samsung Unveils 7-Inch Galaxy Android Tablet
Gizmodo,
Sep 2, 2010, 11:16 AM EDT
Tablet Battle Begins: Samsung Galaxy Vs. iPad
PC World,
Sep 1, 2010, 7:59 AM EDT
Samsung's Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android slate, is set to debut this Thursday. The Galaxy Tab is arguably the first high-end Android tablet to hit the market and thus the first real contender to Apple's "magical" device. Link
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WashPost Plans iPad App In ‘Coming Weeks’
Yahoo News,
Sep 1, 2010, 2:35 PM EDT
Ken Babby, the Post's chief revenue officer and general manager for Washington Post Digital, announced in a staff email the formation of a mobile leadership team and its plans to launch the "highly anticipated" iPad app. Link
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CardStar: Digital Coupon Clipping For iPad
Mashable,
Aug 31, 2010, 9:07 AM EDT
Review
iPad Newspapers: Ripe For Innovation
ReadWriteWeb,
Aug 31, 2010, 8:08 AM EDT
Richard MacManus: "Newspapers could also do a lot with personalization on the iPad. Every newspaper reader has their favorite sections, but more than that is offering in-depth news coverage on topics of interest to individual readers." Link
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iSuppli: iPad To Top Tablets Through 2012
Barrons,
Aug 25, 2010, 12:28 PM EDT
How eReaders Are Changing Habits
Wall Street Journal,
Aug 25, 2010, 12:32 PM EDT
A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books.
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The Challenge Ahead For HP's WebOS Tablet
Test Freaks,
Aug 25, 2010, 9:22 AM EDT
Viewsonic Tablet Plans Both Android, Windows
New York Times,
Aug 25, 2010, 3:48 PM EDT
Forrester: iPad Kicks Off 'Tablet Mania'
CNET,
Aug 24, 2010, 4:10 PM EDT
HP: WebOS Tablet Coming Early Next Year
ComputerWorld,
Aug 20, 2010, 7:48 AM EDT
Prediction
Why eReaders Will Soon Cost Less Than $100
Slate,
Aug 13, 2010, 2:00 PM EDT
Farhad Manjoo: "You can think of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as the Crazy Eddie of the e-book business: Every time a rival gets close to the Kindle's prices, Bezos goes even lower. He will not be undersold!" Link
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Plastic Logic Cancels Que eReader
CNET,
Aug 11, 2010, 8:56 AM EDT
Amazon Looking At Devices Beyond Kindle
New York Times,
Aug 11, 2010, 4:15 PM EDT
Volume Of Kindle Book Sales Stuns Bezos
USA Today,
Jul 30, 2010, 7:55 AM EDT
Why The iPad Hasn’t Killed The Kindle
Newsweek,
Jul 27, 2010, 8:32 AM EDT
Forrester: 29m Will Own eReaders By 2015
MediaBistro,
Jul 22, 2010, 11:05 AM EDT
eReaders On Rise Thanks To Older Readers
Philadelphia Inquirer,
Jul 6, 2010, 8:54 AM EDT
Plastic Logic eReader Turns Into Vaporware
Wired,
Jun 28, 2010, 7:15 AM EDT
Commentary
Why Amazon Should Give Away Kindle Free
CNBC,
Jun 23, 2010, 7:00 AM EDT
Dennis Kneale: "That’s right—Jeff Bezos should give away the Kindle free of charge, to spur more sales of higher-profit online books." Link
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eReaders Race To Bottom With Price Cuts
CrunchGear,
Jun 22, 2010, 6:40 AM EDT
Two of the world’s best-selling e-readers have dropped their prices, down to $149 for the Wi-Fi Nook and $189 for the Kindle. The brief age of “premium” e-readers is ending. Link
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What Happened To 2010's eReader Tsunami?
ARS Technica,
Jun 16, 2010, 2:40 PM EDT
Did Apple's iPad launch throw a big, fat monkey wrench into the industry's plans? Or is the E-Ink tidal wave is still on its way in, having been delayed by other, non-Apple forces? Link
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U.Va. Students Test & Pan Kindle For School
ARS Technica,
May 17, 2010, 7:12 AM EDT
The Darden Business School at the University of Virginia is near the end of its Kindle "experiment," already concluding that students are not into the Kindle when it comes to classroom learning. They are, however, fans of the Kindle when it comes to using it as a personal reading device. Link
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Kindle Lover Oprah Fawns Over iPad
Wall Street Journal,
Apr 27, 2010, 7:42 AM EDT
Nook Selling Better Than Kindle, Analyst Says
CNET,
Apr 26, 2010, 2:01 PM EDT
Barnes & Noble eReader Plans Web Browser
Associated Press,
Apr 23, 2010, 3:57 PM EDT
Better Wi-Fi connectivity, faster page turns and better touch-screen navigation are also part of the upgrade for the Nook, which uses Google's Android operating system. Link
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Alice For iPad Shows Why eBooks Are Cool
Mashable,
Apr 13, 2010, 3:07 PM EDT
Watch the video preview for a taste of "designing for the medium"
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iPad Dad? You Know Roger Fidler is Smiling
Guardian,
Apr 12, 2010, 7:10 AM EDT
New media pioneer Roger Fidler set out a vision for tablet-based electronic journalism 16 years ago. Now the iPad is making that vision reality Link
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Can Kindle Reveal Books Like Last.fm Did Music?
Fast Company,
Apr 1, 2010, 8:56 AM EDT
Digital reading platforms can collect previously unheralded data about how we read books--and that could change the way we buy them. Link
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Audit Bureau Updates Rules For eReaders
PaidContent,
Mar 16, 2010, 1:50 PM EDT
The key change is this: An ePaper edition no longer needs to be presented in a layout identical to the print version. Replica digital editions will continue to be included in a magazine’s circulation. Link
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Free Kindle For Amazon Prime Customers?
TechCrunch,
Feb 12, 2010, 8:57 AM EST
TechCrunch says a reliable source tells it that Amazon wants to give a free Kindle to every Amazon Prime subscriber. Link
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Is Amazon Building A SuperKindle?
New York Times,
Feb 4, 2010, 9:07 AM EST
Amazon acquires Touchco, a New York start-up developing flexible, transparent multitouch panels.
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University of Georgia Study
Kindle Stumbles As eReader For Newspapers
Atlanta Business Journal,
Jan 26, 2010, 9:14 AM EST
Researchers said that portable e-readers are unlikely to win readers back to newspapers unless they include features such as color, photographs and touch screens. Link
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Mobile And The Media's Imploding Biz Model
Michael Wolff: "If the news business on the Web is depressing, contributing to the existential angst that has gripped every established news organization, mobile turns the story apocalyptic: there is no foreseeable basis on which the news establishment can support itself. There is no way even a stripped-down, aggregation-based, unpaid citizen-journalist staffed newsroom can support itself in a mobile world."
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WashPo Ombud's Paywall Analysis Is Faulty
Ryan Chittum: "You can't compare nine months of circulation-revenue changes to 12 months of ad-revenue changes and then say the former 'didn't even cover the decline in the latter.' That's like giving somebody a 100 meter headstart in the 400 meters and then talking about how the laggard couldn't even compete, even though they ran faster than the rest of the field."
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The 'Sharing' Mirage
Frédéric Filloux on the benefits and pitfalls of teaming up with content distributors: "Media should be very careful with their level of reliance on other content distributors such as Facebook, Google, Apple or Amazon. This can be summed up to a simple question: can we trust them?The short answer is no."
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Paywalls Open Doors For Local News Sites
Howard Owens: "As a matter of business reality, when an incumbent business moves deeper into sustaining innovation it opens up opportunities for disruptors. In every market where a newspaper puts up a paywall, an opportunity is created for an entrepreneur to start a local online news business."
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For Future Of News, Killer App Is Credibility
Robert Hernandez, an assistant professor of professional practice in journalism at USC Annenberg: "With technology empowering everyone with the ability to create and to distribute, I predict — and wish — that in 2012 the new dominating factor will be Credibility. Actually, earned Credibility."
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Layoffs, Cutbacks Lead To News Deserts
Tom Stites: "Desertification is on the march, claiming more and more communities as newspapers continue to wither and few Web efforts manage to replace more than a fraction of the original reporting that newspapers have abandoned."
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Moneyball: Fixing Newspaper Web Sales
Mel Taylor: "Today's Newspaper industry is like that once great, but now struggling baseball team playing on a new, hyper-competitive field called the Internet. The veteran print team is stuck in a rut using the same, tired strategy that did serve them well for years, but no longer. Today, they get trounced by those with more money and muscle."
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The Metric For Missed Expectations
Matthew Shanahan: "Here’s the problem: [Click-through rates don't] take into account audience engagement, not to mention the fact that other advertisers are competing for the click-through on the same page."
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