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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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Tablet Magazines
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  [responsive][/responsive] In the four years since the iPad burst onto the scene, promising an entirely new type of magazine experience, digital magazines have forgotten to evolve. “For the most part, they are magazines that look and navigate like print...
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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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A Digital-Only Macworld? Big Mistake, Guys
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[responsive][/responsive]IDG has just axed its last remaining print publication and is moving Macworld to a digital-only platform. Are they not paying attention to what’s been going on in the magazine world of late, or do they really believe that this...
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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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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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Digital Magazines Toy with Reduced—or Eliminated—Pricing
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Earlier this week we talked about the slump in digital magazine sales, and how the predicted glut of digital revenue in the magazine industry hasn’t panned out. Further evidence of the irrational exuberance of the digital business model is the fact...
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Issuu Takes Social Sharing to the Next Level
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Issuu is hot, and getting hotter. The world’s fastest growing digital publishing platform (according to a press release on Talking New Media) has just upped the game for social content sharing. Their new interactive Clip product gives readers “the ability...
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