I flipped for Flipboard, Apple’s “app of the year” in 2010. But I think it’s been bettered by a new reading and content curation and discovery app called “Zite” – as in zeitgeist.
Entries Tagged as 'magazine'
Zite Personal Magazine App Has Bettered Even the Updated Flipboard (For Me)
March 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · software reviews
Free demo video: How to make an iPad magazine with inDesign
December 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebook tools
A few weeks ago Adobe hosted a webinar on some of the advanced features of Adobe inDesign. They show you how to make some pretty impressive iPad magazines. They recorded the webinar and you can watch it here. This is way outside my experience so i asked a number of app developers what they thought [...]
Is anyone surprised by the drop in magazine app sales?
December 29th, 2010 · 7 Comments · ebookstore news
I’m not. Everyone’s writing about an article on WWD Media blog about the declining sales of iPad magazine apps. I’m not sure why this is news; we’ve already seen this happen. Many magazines that are available on the iPad, such as Esquire, People and The New Yorker, have not posted their digital single-issue sales to [...]
E-ink’s Pearl screen named as “Best of What’s New” by PopSci Magazine
December 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
Um, how can a third generation screen be regarded as new technology? It’s a refinement of existing technology, not a new invention. From the press release: E Ink® Holdings, the leading developer and marketer of electronic paper display technologies, today announced that the company’s E Ink Pearl™ display is a winner of Popular Science’s annual [...]
Apple bans a magazine that covers Android OS
November 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · app store news
Mike Cane pointed me at this story this afternoon. Then a representative from developer relations informed the CEO of Mediaprovider, a small magazine publisher based in Denmark, that he couldn’t put a magazine about Google’s (GOOG) Android on the App Store. According to Mediaprovider’s Brian Dixon, the exchange went like this: “So what’s the problem?” [...]
Kobo now selling newspaper, magazine subscriptions
October 27th, 2010 · 6 Comments · ebookstore news
I just heard over Twitter that the News Stand section of the Kobo ebookstore is now live. You can choose from 27 magazines and newspapers with prices ranging from $19.99 (NYTimes) to $1.49 (PC Magazine, The Nation). Kobo are also offering a free 2 week trial subscription. The process doesn’t seem to have all the [...]
How Coffee Will Save the Magazine Industy
October 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
by Ted Striphas I’ve long been a reader of magazines, and so for several months now I’ve been intrigued to see lots of pro-magazine advertisements appearing in some of my favorite periodicals. Maybe you’ve seen them, too. Generally, the ads are filled with all sorts of upbeat facts about magazine circulation and subscribership. The campaign’s [...]
Flat ad revenues could spell doom for magazine apps
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
The market research firm Flurry posted an interesting article on their blog on Thursday last week. Flurry, if you don’t know, are a company that track the app market based on small bits of code embedded in apps from certain developers. They were one of the first to announce the iPad (they were getting data [...]
ESPN Magazine, the iPhone App
October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · software reviews
I’m an ESPN Mag subscriber, so I was excited when they announced plans to release the Mag as an iPad app in September. I was even more thrilled to hear the app content would be free for print subscribers. Great idea. The app arrived a bit later than anticipated, but now that it’s here I’ve [...]
Magazine apps are the new tech bubble
October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
I’ve had growing doubts for a while now that apps mostly hype. I keep seeing more and more apps like Publisher’s Weekly or Dazed (both produced by Exact Editions) where no one really put any thought into the app; it was just thrown up (pun intended) and then released in the App Store. I don’t [...]
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