New owner Jay Penske is shutting down Variety magazine’s daily print edition and removing the paywall around the century-old tabloid’s online content. But will these radical moves help the paper survive against more nimble rivals? Read more at paidContent »
Marco Arment softened the paywall around his iPad-only magazine because his content was not benefiting from the social-sharing effect that the web enables — a microcosm of the dilemma that many other publishers are also facing. Read more at paidContent »
On Wednesday, Yahoo released its Livestand app, which combines aspects of apps like Flipboard and Zite with the digital magazine rack concept of Apple’s Newsstand. I took the app through its paces to see how the hybrid approach holds up in the face of the competition. Read more »
Typically, periodical contributors are paid either via per-item fee or through a salary, if at all. New iPad magazine Once thinks that a new format calls for a new compensation model; one that provides contributors with a more direct share of the revenue from their work. Read more »
Playboy finally arrived fully uncensored on the iPad, but it couldn’t go through the App Store to get there. Instead, it’s a web app, sidestepping Apple’s rules and requirements. Sounds like a sweet deal, but is it a model that will be attractive to other magazines? Read more »
Users of Apple magazine apps are likely to be repeat readers, are willing to share their personal info with publishers, and are often repeat users, according to a new report. All of which might explain why publishers are more and more eager to offer in-app subscriptions. Read more »
How many people might you expect to click “Allow” when face with Apple’s forbidding dialog asking you to “Share Your Information?” with publishers? According to a couple of very reliable sources, a surprising 50 percent of iOS subscribers are agreeing to pass their info along. Read more »
Apple won over two new publishers to its iOS subscription plans late Wednesday, including newspaper The Daily Telegraph and the real big fish, major magazine publisher Hearst. Hearst is behind many popular magazine brands, including O (The Oprah Magazine), Esquire and Popular Mechanics. Read more »
Playboy is coming to the iPad starting in March. And that’s not just a big screen conversion of the watered-down app currently available on the iPhone and iPod touch. No, it’s the fully uncensored magazine, both past and current issues. Read more »
The new iPad-only publication Project from Virgin has arrived, and is currently available for download from the App Store. Users get a very limited preview of the international culture, business and travel magazine free, and can then buy the first issue for $2.99. Read more »
The iPad seems well-designed for magazines, but Apple has had trouble working out a subscription model with publishers that works for all concerned. Might Jeff Bezos have stolen away the revenue potential represented by periodicals with Amazon’s latest move? Read more »
Khoi Vinh, former design director for the New York Times, says he can’t stand most magazine apps created for the iPad, such as the ones from Wired and The New Yorker, because they are too big and don’t take advantage of being connected to the web. Read more »
If you’re a devoted print subscriber but you have an iPad and want to read the digital edition instead, the only option to date has been paying full newsstand cover prices all over again for the same content. That’s now changed for the better. Read more »
Just like Apple with its iBookstore, Zinio has established relationships with an impressive array of publications. As such, you can expect to find enhanced editions of magazines Cosmopolitan, T3 and Rolling Stone among others. However, unlike Apple’s iBookstore, Zinio certainly doesn’t live up to the hype. Read more »
Just when you thought the iPad might be able to breathe some life back into the failing print industry, the industry itself seems dead set on making sure that doesn’t happen. Well, certain parties within the industry at least, like maybe News Corp. for instance, if […] Read more »
When Apple does eventually get around to shipping the iPad, which may not be as soon as many of us had hoped, we’ll at least have some good quality, familiar content to enjoy on the platform according to an internal announcement by Condé Nast as reported […] Read more »
One of the strongest pieces of evidence in support of the existence of an Apple tablet has come into question today. Reports that Condé Nast, publisher of many magazine titles, including The New Yorker and Vogue, was preparing a digital format specifically for the Apple tablet […] Read more »
Newspapers and magazines — the entire news print industry to be honest — have been suffering a long and torturous decline for much of the last decade as more of us turn to the Internet and electronic devices to get (increasingly personalized) news and other content. […] Read more »
You can’t buy publicity like this. According to a report by Christian Zibreg on geek.com, the cover of the latest edition of venerable The New Yorker magazine was made on an iPhone. Artist Jorge Colombo created the cover artwork using Brushes, a $4.99 premium app currently […] Read more »
