How the Apple Newsstand is Failing Publishers
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[responsive][/responsive]We’ve been talking about this for a few weeks now, recounting stories that tell of the sad state of affairs with digital magazines. Publishers are, if not outright blaming Apple for killing subscriptions, at least assigning them a good portion...
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Have You Crashed Your Magazine App Today?
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[responsive][/responsive]If you publish digital versions of your magazines on the Apple Newsstand, you’ve got some work to do. According to D. B. Hebbard in Talking New Media, the latest iOS 8 updates from Apple are causing crashes and other malfunctions...
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City & Regional Magazines and the Digital Debate
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With print sales slowing or even declining, we might expect city and regional publishers to be looking to digital versions to bolster circulations. And we’d probably find out that many of them are doing no such thing. According to Talking...
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Shoppable Images A Great Opportunity to Integrate Digital with Print
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[responsive][/responsive]Online shopping is usually a bit uninspired. While some websites are using video and other distractions to introduce their new lines, the typical purchase experience involves clicking on a lot of pictures laid out in grids. It reduces online shopping...
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Are Digital Editions Already Dead?
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[responsive][/responsive]Some publishing executives are planning to discontinue digital editions of their magazines, as high costs and low returns show digital may not be working. Despite this, print circulation remains lower. People haven’t stopped reading, so what gives? “This revolution isn’t...
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Soft Tablet Growth Getting Even Softer
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[responsive][/responsive]Tablets—once hailed as a revolution in mobile tech—have failed to perform. Not only are sales of the devices slowing dramatically, but sales of the content they were supposed to revolutionize are down too. Digital magazine sales are in a major...
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Another Magazine Reader Who Won’t Use Newsstand
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[responsive][/responsive]Despite significant cost savings over print versions, one industry insider just won’t use the Newsstand app to read his magazines. And he’s not alone in his criticism of the platform. “First, it’s too easy to forget about,” writes Kirk McElhearn in...
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Steve Jobs on SI iPad Demo: “It’s Stupid”
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[responsive][/responsive]Remember how the iPad was going to save the magazine industry? Yeah, neither do we but for a while there it did look like publishers were taking the idea of tabletized magazines to the virtual bank. And while the current...
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Can Magazines Fix the Tablet Problem?
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[responsive][/responsive]It’s been four years since Apple introduced the iPad and turned magazine publishing business models on their collective ears. Yet sales of digital magazines continue to slump, and the expected ad revenue hasn’t materialized. What happened? “The tablet magazine has...
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Dear App, It’s Not You, It’s Me
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[responsive][/responsive]While smartphones have become ubiquitous (almost 75% of all US adults between 18-54 now own one), close to a third of us don’t download any new apps. And only one in 10 actually pay real money for apps. According to...
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