Digital Magazine Titles Continue their Slide
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“Enthusiasm for the digital edition fade at many magazine firms, even as access continues to grow through library systems,” notes D. B. Hebbard For magazine publishers, the initial promise of digital editions as a way to cover the drop in...
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Inside the B2B Digital Numbers Dilemma
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[responsive][/responsive]D. B. Hebbard has a bone to pick with B2B publishers and their circulation figures. To look at the official audit numbers, it seems that B2B titles are lagging far behind B2Cs in digital circulation. “The growth in digital editions...
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iPads and Digital Editions Continue to Decline
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For the fifth quarter in a row, Apple has reported declining iPad sales. And according to D. B. Hebbard in Talking New Media, the real issue isn’t necessarily the decline in the tablets themselves. “There are a lot of reasons...
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Fast Company Reimagines the Digital Magazine for Big Phones
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[responsive][/responsive] Digital magazines on tablets haven’t work. So one company is setting its sights on the new bigger-screen phone as a platform for magazine content. “What could make the small screen more appealing than the large for consuming magazine content?...
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Magazine Readers Have Little Appetite for Binge-Reading Buffet
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[responsive][/responsive]First there was Next Issue, then came Magzter, both offering subscription-style all-you-can-binge digital magazines.  And the magazine reading public was not impressed. “It is an idea that, on the surface, sounds like a sound business model that would appeal to...
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Monocle Says Phooey to Digital
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[responsive][/responsive]Tyler Brûlé pulls no punches. As founder and editor-in-chief of high-end lifestyle magazine Monocle, Brûlé unapologetically eschews social media for his highly successful brand. “It’s great having lots of likes and lots of followers, but you have to wonder what...
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Waiting to See on Digital Circulation Rates
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[responsive][/responsive]Is the growth of digital magazines really slowing down across the board, or are there other factors in play here? That’s the question posted by D. B. Hebbard in Talking New Media, who notes that the data from AAM is...
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More on Magzter: Why This Won’t Fly
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[responsive][/responsive]Last week we reported that Magzter would begin offering a Netflix-esque model for magazine titles. Our take was that nobody is going to be the Netflix of the magazine industry, based on tepid consumer demand for digital magazines. D.B. Hebbard...
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Why Nobody’s Going to Be the Netflix of Magazines
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Massive and unfettered consumption of digital media is so prevalent it’s spawned its own memes. Binge watching is a thing; it has its own Twitter hashtag. And music fans have become their own station producers with unlimited access to just...
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A Fresh, Sane Look at the Print Vs. Digital Debate
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[responsive][/responsive]SPH Magazines in Singapore has a revamped business model, and they aren’t shy about going public with the reasoning behind it. “Clearly the old publishing model no longer works,” writes SPH’s Gloria Arlini in INMA’s Keynote Blog. “Magazines cannot survive...
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