Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Easter has come and gone, and big things have happened in the world of ebooks! Sorry about that, couldn’t help it. That really is a big creme egg. Apologies for my lack of posts the last week or so, the unholy trinity of Easter, moving house and my special lady friend leaving the country for [...]
Tags: AAP, Android, Apple, booku, e-ink, Google, hachette, iOS, iPad, iphone, iPod Touch, Kindle, marketplace, Quanta, subscription, tablet, Time
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
READ PART 1 OF THIS POST Having said all that, what The Daily does not do is shift the pendulum back towards news as a single portal paradigm – and that is its ultimate downfall (and possibly the downfall of all printed newspapers and magazines). Nowadays when I read news, it isn’t through a single organisation’s curated [...]
Tags: Apple, iPad, Magazines, Murdoch, newspapers, paywall, subscription, The Daily
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
There is no shortage of comparisons between the book industry and the music industry, despite their obvious differences. However, book publishers are loathe to compare the digitisation of books to the digitisation of newspapers and magazines. And that’s mostly because paper and mag publishing is (arguably) facing off against far bigger problems than the book [...]
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