The World Today joins the shop:
- Sapphire mining.
- Jacob Zuma.
- What are we doing to our forests?
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- Apple’s multi-touch interface will spread from the iPhone and enrich the way we use personal computers (Microsoft will introduce something similar).
- The Google phones (Android) will show, once and for all, that we do not need dedicated eBook readers, and Exact Editions’ magazines will be as easily read on Android devices as on iPhones.
- Safari and some other browsers will offer resolution independent imaging, so that photos or digital editions can be easily resized to fit the
The Exact Editions system added some important functionality this year.
- In July we added The Clipper to the toolbar (its a publisher/opt-out tool, so some accounts will not have it). This allows users to make limited clippings from their magazine subscriptions, for example to include a clipping and citation in a blog. One of the heaviest users of the clipping tool is a Finnish blog about running.
- In September with advice and help from Le Monde Diplomatique we introduced
David Hepworth, whose day job is at Development Hell, writes a well-informed but sometimes rather jaundiced column on the magazine business for the Guardian. This week’s column is typically bleak on the industry’s prospects for 2008 and it includes this comment:
… Keep ReadingThe chief executive of one big publisher of women’s weeklies told me that he had given up pretending with investors and was prepared to confess that he could not see a way that his company would ever make