Ed Needham who was editor of FHM in its glory years — the late 1990’s when its circulation crested over 750,000 — has given a rather depressing interview for the Press Gazette on his gloomy fears for the magazine industry:
… Keep ReadingPerhaps sensitive to the difficulties that some of his former magazines now find themselves in, Needham is reluctant to discuss any individual titles, telling Press Gazette: “Idon’t really have an opinion to be honest.”
But moments later he adds: “It’s
Exact Editions iTunes apps are getting some new versions 6.1. Clear the decks for Apple’s new version of iOS and the new product announcements anticipated for the next few weeks.
As the Exact Editions apps work through the approval process they will emerge with a brand new interface for handling archives on the iPad. The magazine issues for the current year can now be accessed and selected from a simple drop down box that shows you all the front … Keep Reading
John Battelle has a really good blog on the future of magazines.
He summarises some of the difficulties which original content sites on the traditional web are facing:
… Keep ReadingNearly all web publications are driven by the display model, which is in turn driven by page views. But we all know the web is shifting, thanks to mobile devices and the walled gardens they erect. The new landscape of the web is far more complicated, and new products must emerge.
Twitter has come in for a good deal of criticism for its recent announcement of new rules for developers using the Twitter api. See the BBC report or John Gruber’s blog on Daring Fireball.
I am a keen admirer of Twitter and have been thinking a lot about Twitter for some months in the context of John Searle’s philosophy of speech acts (yes I am writing a book about it too, since writing is the best way of working … Keep Reading
Gramophone is one of the best magazines for classical music. At Exact Editions we have been working with the Gramophone publishing team for a couple of years and the editors of that publication are using their digital platform in an imaginative and highly effective way to provide additional rich linking from within the magazine. Their latest issues shows how this linking can work very well for the reader; links are incredibly valuable in digital magazines, as they are in blogs, … Keep Reading
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