Do you know how some newspapers and magazines offer a free iPad app to their print subscribers? According to NRC.nl, Apple have decided to put a stop to that. Apple is going to publish the rules for stricter compliance iPad tablet computer. Publishers, including NRC Media, may no longer offer a subscription model in which [...]
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Apple to nix free iPad editions for print subscribers?
January 14th, 2011 · 4 Comments · ebookstore news
The Bonfire Of The Print Publishing Dunces
January 8th, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
They’re Selling Comics On The iPad The Wrong Way The iPad, with its digital downloads, has the ability to offer reams of forgotten comics and sell them to us comics readers cheap. Unfortunately, that’s not what Comics and its competing apps do. They make a broad but shallow pool of content available — little from [...]
Tags:bonfire·dunces·print·publishing
Elsevier Enables its e-Books to Read Aloud, Increasing Access for People With Print Disabilities
December 8th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, announced today that it has enabled the text-to-speech option on all of its ePub book titles. The text-to-speech function enables an e-book to read aloud. This will facilitate access by readers who would otherwise face a range of [...]
Tags:access·aloud·disabilities·ebooks·elsevier·enables·increasing·people·print·read
Print Is Dead
October 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · opinion
LA Weekly are putting this sign on their newspaper boxes, which might be ironic considering more people will read this online than see the actual sign. via Update: An astute reader pointed out a problem with the picture: it’s over 2 years old. My mistake. But I think that makes my point even stronger. More [...]
Rushkoff: “Most Books Sell More In Ebook Version Than Print” (Um, What?)
October 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
by Evil Wylie In an Arthur Mag column detailing his reasons for leaving his corporate publishing house, author Douglas Rushkoff claims that “most books sell more electronic versions than print ones anyway, and Amazon already sells more of most books than all real-world retailers combined.” Really?
David Morrell on the Current State of Print Publishing: “This Is Nuts”
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
by Evil Wylie David Morrell (the creator of Rambo and a damn good thriller writer) recently signed an exclusive deal with Amazon to release 10 of his books as Kindle e-books (nine of which are backlist). Is he a trailblazer, or has he signed a deal with THE DEVIL? Here are his thoughts on the [...]
Is Print Dead? (Infographic)
August 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
I just came across his infographic which injects a little reality into the “print is dead” argument.
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People iPad app free to print subscribers
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · ipad app, publishing news
Finally a publisher are rewarding their print subscribers (rather than punishing them like Wired). John P over at All things Digital is reporting that People Magazine have worked out the contract dispute with the paparazzi (the oens who stalk celebrities). The dispute was over whether the paparazzi would get paid extra for the digital rights. [...]
Century-old Brazilian newspaper to drop print edition
July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
The Knight Center for Journalism are reporting: The Rio de Janeiro-based Jornal do Brasil will stop circulating its 119-year-old print edition and appear only online, O Globo reports. The paper’s owner, Nelson Tanure, says he will set the date for the changeover this week. Before deciding to end the print edition, Tanure tried, unsuccessfully, to [...]
The hot new trend for news websites: print editions
June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
No, seriously, the San Francisco Public Press will be printing their first physical edition tomorrow. It’s going to be 20 pages long with an 8 page pull out. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “It strikes me as audacious,” says Tom Goldstein, a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, adding that the move [...]
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