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24 June 201610 November 2021|Digital

It seems tablet sales have hit the ceiling; what does this mean to your publishing strategy?“Have tablets failed to become little more than nice-to-have devices?” asks Felim McGrath in The Media Briefing.It would appear so. Not only have tablet sales...

Why Digital Publishers are About to Lose Subscribers

28 October 201528 October 2015|Digital

Publishers are supposed to know this, and Apple did send out a notice, but how many realize what it means? Let’s say you subscribe to a handful of digital magazines. They are relatively inexpensive, and the payments are all lumped...

Less Discovery, Less Promotion: How is this a Good Thing?

30 March 201530 March 2015|Apps, Magazine

[responsive][/responsive]The Apple App Store is definitely not in good favor with magazine publishers. D. B. Hebbard of Talking New Media has long been keeping an eye on things there, and he reports that the latest change make a bad thing...

Why Magazines Haven’t Made the Digital Cut

10 March 201510 November 2021|Digital, Magazine

[responsive][/responsive]We talked about it last summer, that this revolution will not be tabletized. With tablet sales dropping it appears even less likely now that digital magazines will usurp traditional print.What’s really behind consumer preference for print over digital magazines? D....

Dropping Tablet Sales a Positive Sign for Print Magazines

04 February 201504 February 2015|Apps, Digital, Magazine

[responsive][/responsive]The shiny new technology was supposed to revolutionize the magazine industry. When Apple introduced the iPad in 2010, magazine apps were positioned as the “next big thing” and most publishers felt compelled to push out replica versions or reimagined titles...

Soft Tablet Growth Getting Even Softer

10 September 201409 November 2021|Apps, Digital

[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...

Bad Apples in the Apple Newsstand

02 July 201402 July 2014|Digital, Newsstand

It’s no secret the Apple newsstand is a mess. The lack of maintenance on the part of Apple has been causing headaches for publishers and their readers, to be sure. And now it looks like fraud is becoming an even...

Digital Publishers Face Tough Road to Success in App Store

12 June 201426 August 2021|Digital, Magazine

Calling the promise of an egalitarian newsstand “probably always a bit naïve,” D.B. Hebbard gives his take on the current state of the digital newsstand in his article in Talking New Media. And pay for play is the new name...

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