Steve Colbert has a splendid take on the new biography of Steve Jobs: he pulls the book up on to his desk and then starts playing with it as though it were an iPad. He can’t swipe the pages, so he turns it upside down and then the portrait of Steve Jobs on the front cover “doesn’t even reorient”. There is nowhere to put the jack for his headset etc…
In fact, this is pretty much the same joke as … Keep Reading
There seems to be a good chance that the Kindle Fire will be an effective, low end, competitor for the iPad as a platform for digital magazines. How effective do we think it will be?
We might start by looking at some numbers. The problem is that while Apple gives us precise totals for iPad device sales, on a quarter by quarter basis. Amazon has historically given very little information about Kindle sales, either about the device or about the … Keep Reading
Journalism.co.uk this week has a podcast interview with Daryl Rayner, Exact Editions founder and MD. Also on the podcast with Daryl are representatives of two UK publishers, Future (Mike Goldsmith) and Factory Media (Chris Talintyre). It is striking that all three parties report striking and impressive success from the launch of Newsstand in rather similar terms.
One slightly surprising fact about the interviewed group, is that between them these three companies were responsible for about 1/3 of the titles available … Keep Reading
Front Cover of the first issue
Dazed & Confused has an archive stretching forward 21 years from the simple black and white folded poster which was its launch issue. This extensive archive of 189 issues (+ 3 supplements), 33,500 pages, approximately 12 million words, has now been completely databased by Exact Editions and is available to magazine subscribers — a free and fully searchable resource for all print and digital subscribers.
The Dazed & Confused archive as it grows will … Keep Reading
Frédéric Filloux has a bit of a rant about Apple’s vulnerability to charges of monopoly for its very successful control of the ‘tablet’ market and the rather strict rules that it imposes for publishers and developers in iTunes.
I am not sure that his charges amount to much. On Apple’s 30% commission he decides:
… Keep ReadingOk, then, it’s legal. But is it fair and, more importantly, sustainable for Apple?
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But this system essentially favors the vast market of small to
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