1731 readersOn TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld takes a look at the problems magazines have been having adapting to the iPad—in short, they are over-bloated, under-featured, and cost too much—and suggests a blueprint for magazines and newspapers to follow to take full advantage of what the iPad has to offer. Even though most iPad magazines are frankly lousy
1477 readersKhoi Vinh, formerly the design director for the New York Times’s website, has a post on his blog, Subtraction.com, looking at the problem with magazine apps for the iPad. (A couple of weeks ago, I covered another article on the same issue for which Vinh was interviewed.) The major problem, Vinh says, is that they
2717 readersIn partnership with Condé Nast, e-magazine app Flipboard has started introducing advertising to some of its feeds, beginning with The New Yorker magazine. But Flipboard users need not fret that their app is going to go the way of the web, with intrusive advertisements that distract from the content. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue insists that
3396 readers
From Mobileburn:
Starting with next months issue, Reader’s Digest will be the latest print magazine to offer regular monthly editions for Apple’s iPad tablet. Readers will be able to subscribe to the digital magazine for a full year, or purchase issues individually.
Reader’s Digest is offering six months of the iPad version for free
1950 readersAfter much disappointment with Amazon, and their inability to offer a comprehensive magazine portfolio on the Kindle, I had high hopes for the iPad. And while the iPad is still fairly new, the magazine experience up to now has been pretty disappo...
2364 readersAOL has just launched a new iPad app, Editions, which serves up a custom daily “magazine” of content from both its own sites and others (but mostly its own). Like Zite, Flipboard, Pulse, Taptu, Hitpad and a slew of other apps, you can customize the type of content you see, although if you don’t like
2281 readersiPad magazines are the new black. Last week The Economist launched an iPad magazine, today Richard Branson announced his new iPad magazine called ‘Project’ and now Motor Trend, the automotive magazine is announcing that their new iPad magazine is ...
-
489 readershttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/12/02/businessinsider-flipboard-testing-more-immersive-layout-display-ads-2010-12.DTL The new technology is called Flipboard Pages, and it uses a set of HTML5 templates to convert Web pages into full-display paginated content--much more like a magazine than regular Flipboard content. When users click on a link from ABC News, All Things Di --- Saved by iamPariah at 02 Dec 2010, url details
-
1283 readershttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/12/02/businessinsider-flipboard-testing-more-immersive-layout-display-ads-2010-12.DTL The new technology is called Flipboard Pages, and it uses a set of HTML5 templates to convert Web pages into full-display paginated content--much more like a magazine than regular Flipboard content. When users click on a link from ABC News, All Things Di --- Saved by iamPariah at 02 Dec 2010, url details
835 readers
Flipboard recently announced the ability for anyone to become a publisher on their platform. Within two weeks 500,000+ magazines were created. I created one of those and I'd like to tell you why.
Before I do that though, let me tell you how you can get my Publishing 2020 magazine. Since Flipboard isn't available as a