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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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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Marco Arment on App Rot: It’s Not Pretty Out There
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Marco Arment knows a thing or two about good app design. As the creator of Instapaper and the original publisher of The Magazine, he’s often cited as someone that “gets it right.” So when Arment talks about App Rot in...
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5 Essential Tools Make Your Online Journalism Shine
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In the “appegeddon” of apps being released each month for journalists and content creators, it can be hard to keep up and pick the right products, said Ezra Eeman of Journalism Tools during a UK conference in July. Eeman encouraged...
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Apple Users Prefer to Stream, Not Buy
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Buy a digital magazine? No thanks, I’ll just stream the feed. This seems to be the trend in online publishing, much the same way music lovers have flocked to streaming radio instead of buying their music content. “The first inkling...
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Point, Snap and Buy with New Target App
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One major U.S. retailer is taking the next step in digital e-commerce, with the launch of Target's new image recognition shopping app that allows customers to purchase products after scanning them in print. According to CRB Online, “The [In-a-Snap] app...
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Print: From Disruption to Experimentation and Beyond
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CDS Global’s Malcolm Netburn gave the keynote address at the recent IDEAAlliance PRIMEX East conference, and BoSacks reprinted Netburn’s remarks in his blog. In his speech, Netburn took a realistic look a print’s evolving role in the media mix, and...
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