Flipboard had a great introduction a few weeks ago”A Prettier Way to Browse the Social Web” (NYT). Robert Scoble went overboard “Overall this is an extraordinary iPad app and one that will shake the media world for quite some time”. Scoble may be partly to blame for the amazing user response which promptly swamped and downed the servers which drive this clever and rather beautiful app. For a while new subscribers have been filtered and phased in through … Keep Reading
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It seems that quite a few of the big magazine companies are unhappy about the way that Apple is managing, ‘controlling’ if you like, the app store. First there was an article in Folio magazine, then this was picked up by All Things Digital and then the blogosphere erupted. According to Folio magazine:
… Keep Reading…. getting an app approved can be a frustrating ordeal, especially when publishers find out at the 11th hour that their proposal has been rejected (in what
Reading is, in these days, an over-rated activity.
Most of what is most important about books is now about not-reading them. I was reminded of this deep but counter-intuitive truth by a blogger (An American Editor) recently complaining that his To Be Read pile (TBR Pile) was getting unmanageable because it was full of ebooks that often cost nothing and were without physical presence.
… Keep ReadingWhich brings us to the special problem of ebooks. Yes, ebooks are a special
Judge Chin is still considering his decision in the case of Google ….. His ruling may come this week, next week, or in a few months. Only he and his team have a good idea of that. Meanwhile Professor Pam Samuelson has produced a very thorough, balanced, somewhat critical review of the proposed Settlement and of Google’s efforts in a 60 page paper for the Minnesota Law Review. If you haven’t been following GBS too closely, this is an … Keep Reading
Do not say that we do not listen to our market. One of my colleagues was explaining how our system of Shared Access Codes (SAC) enables a publisher to offer a comprehensive service to subscribers who may soon be getting and wanting both a print subscription, web access, and an app for their iPhone and iPad. The Exact Editions service enables publishers to do this… and it can be viewed as a comprehensive distribution platform for the publisher. But the … Keep Reading