Are these two great companies on a collision course? They may be united in their disdain for Microsoft, but they are going to be knocking into each other in the coming year.
Google has its Android mobile platform, and Chrome which is looking increasingly like a lunge towards an operating system (Google seem to be embarassed that Chrome does not yet run on Macs, but do Apple really want another operating system pushing into their terrain?). Not to mention … Keep Reading
The sharp fall in the value of the £ is good news for exporters. Good news for subscribers who want to buy British magazines. This may explain why we seem to be having a boom in overseas subscriptions (which have always been strong).
A monthly magazine whose digital subscription costs £45 (eg the wonderful Opera) seems a lot better value when that translates into $69 rather than $99 which is what the $ price was a few months ago. … Keep Reading
Continuum publish a comprehensive guide to British publishers which is now available through the Exact Editions platform.
Here are some sample pages. Note that some are available for full view. The index is also useful in full page view.
Our publishers get an account in which they see in real time the subscription activity on their titles. That means that we can also see real-time sales activity. So I keep a weather eye on the sales window when I am working.
This afternoon someone popped up and bought one title, and then 15 minutes later they came back and bought 4 more. I reckon that most of our sales are down to the strength and quality of the magazines … Keep Reading
One of the major advantages of a software delivered as a web service is that one can make steady improvements to the service, with (one hopes) no adverse impacts on the expectations of users. On average we have been tweaking and improving our service more than once a week in 2008. Here are the figures for the number of new site releases since we started:
2005 28
2006 32
2007 58
2008 76
Our big steps in 2008 included: shops/stores … Keep Reading
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