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 [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote a review of the best iPhone apps that magazines had produced. You can read it here. Some of these apps were paid, some free with advertising included, and some just me-too apps offering a basic rendering of the publishers RSS feed.
If you follow iPhone news, you will have heard [...]
The decline of print media has been explored endlessly. Everyone is agreed that the traditional business model is broken. And most people agree that there is no silver bullet which will solve the problems facing publishers in this new environment.
To summarise the new reality:
Print circulation is declining across the board, and in many cases will [...]
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 [...]
