I was recently quoted in the International Federation of the Periodical Press’ Magazine World report regarding iPhone apps. It was just passed through to me so I thought I would mention it for those interested (there are a couple of good articles in there – including the cover story on Syndication). You can read the [...]
Dan Thornton (ex-Bauer Media) wrote an interesting post recently titled “Is any magazine company leading the way digitally?“, which looked at recent moves in the digital magazine publishing industry as it grapples with the world of online publishing. So in search of a ‘good’ digital magazine strategy, here is what the consumer magazine publishers seem [...]
Over at Magforum, Tony Quinn has compiled a “History of the Digital Magazine” which gives a good overview of the digital developments in the magazine industry over the last three decades. It’s certainly worth a read. Some highlights include:
1982 – Magazines start to use email and electronic mailboards
1983 – Viewdata systems deliver magazine content via [...]
Last night, whilst the Association of Online Publishers celebrated their awards evening, John Menzies Digital (a digital replica magazine stand) closed up shop and admitted it had overestimated the demand for digital replica magazines. John Menzies was offering a similar service to Zinio, basically digitising print versions from 11 major publishers, and then selling subscriptions [...]
This post is long overdue. As so many magazine publishers are seizing on the iPhone as the saviour of their falling-circulation-and-advertising-revenue woes, a roundup of the various magazines using the iPhone is definitely in order.
I have been fairly loose with my definition of “magazine iPhone apps”, and this is because I am unconvinced that simply [...]
Several weeks ago, Time announced a personalized print magazine, which mixes content from several Time publications, and delivers a selection to each reader based on their preferences. It was meant to be a five edition series (now extended to six because the first issue contained errors…), and is funded by Lexus to advertise their new [...]
One of the most frequently asked questions we have to field, is how idio differs from the other digital magazine providers. Since there are fundamental differences in our approach and process, I thought I would write a quick post explaining the differences.
The digital magazine providers (such as Ceros, Texterity, Zmags, Nxtbooks, Mymagz, Zinio etc etc [...]
Just wanted to share some of the best posts I have read about the future of newspapers/magazines. Feel free to add others in the comments and I will update.
Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable – Clay Shirky
This superb post (its also quite long – but worth the read) starts off with a bang, quoting Gordy Thompson [...]
Yesterday leading mobile blog Mobile Industry Review announced it is to stop providing it’s content for free to readers and instead charge for access.
One company has bought our entire output exclusively, on-going. We are, in effect, becoming a private research company.
Our new client is unwilling to subsidise our existing audience of readers (300-400k last [...]
A lively debate last night at NMK’s debate – “What happens to Magazines?”…
The demise of Arena last week invoked an interesting conversation about the power of blogging led by Ashley Norris, founder of Shiny Media. Where Arena’s digital offering really fell down, it was noted, was their lack of interaction from readers – without an [...]
