The Morning Lowdown 06-24-11
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» For Student Journalists, No Burden Guarding Vargas’ Secret (Mountain View Patch)
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TouchPad-Only Magazine ‘Pivot’ To Debut With Tablet, Produced By HP Itself
HP (NYSE: HPQ) must be tiring of all the news about Apple’s strength in the tablet market, and trying to get its own name out in front: to c… Read more »
Corrected: Two-Thirds Of Tablet Owners Are Willing To Pay For Media Apps
Correction: This story inadvertently downplayed the interest in tablet users willing to pay for newspaper, magazine or TV content. While an… Read more »
Spin Mag Reorg: EIC, Publisher Out; Jeff Rogers Named First Digital Head
It seems the only thing worse than being a record label these days is being a print publication that focuses on music. Spin magazine, a publ… Read more »
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose
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Apple’s recent tweak to its its in-app subscriptions policy was not a big “back-track”, a “reversal”, nor a “climbdown”.
It was an adjustme… Read more »
Future Turns From Magbooks To E-books
Some publishers have been turning their monthly magazines in to half-yearly “books” – spinning their individual expertise out in to more sta… Read more »
Meredith Shutters ReadyMade Magazine; Resources Shift To Digital
Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) is shuttering 10-year-old ReadyMade magazine, a DIY publication that was aimed at younger readers than the typica… Read more »
Comparing The Major Magazine Publishers’ App Portfolios
Magazine publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps, building development teams and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (in some ca… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-14-11
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» Apple’s New iCloud Attracts An iLawsuit Over Naming Rights (paidContent)
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Recalls “Extremely Sm… Read more »
News Corp’s Project Alesia Team Releasing An iPad Product After All
Some of the thinking behind News Corp.’s attempt at aggregating its rivals’ news publications on tablets devices will live on despite being… Read more »
Kantar: Autos, Travel Boosted Display In Q1
With forecasts of double digit ad growth for both online advertising in general — and display in particular — becoming more and more typic… Read more »
Hearst Opens App Lab, Plans A Dozen New Apps Over Next Six Months
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With nearly 100 apps already in circulation, including Zinio digital replicas of all its 14 magazines, Hearst plans to issue a dozen more ap… Read more »
Apple Lets Subscription Providers Hike iOS Prices To Absorb Its 30 Percent
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has made a subtle change to iOS app terms that grants proprietors two inducements to offer subscription content. Read more »
Variety Acquires Research Company TVtracker
Magazines aren’t just about editorial anymore. Case in point, the parent of Hollywood-focused trade mag Variety has acquired TVtracker, an… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-06-11
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» Penry Price to Leave Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for Startup Media6Degrees (AdAge)
» As Digital-Ad Techniques Proliferate,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-03-11
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» Now that Groupon has filed for a $750 million IPO, it’s time to guess the next daily deal site to go public. (paidContent)
As MSLO Ponders Company Sale, Digital Strategy Is Becoming More Central
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In the middle of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s announcement that it is exploring a possible sale of the company, it released its latest… Read more »
Hearst Completes Deal For Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
Hearst Corp. is nearing completion of its $921 million (€640 million) acquisition of French media conglomerate Lagardère SCA. It’s finali… Read more »
Haymarket Will Charge For Its Marketing Industry News Sites
Haymarket says it will implement a “metered” charging model for its MediaWeek, Marketing, Campaign, PRWeek and Brand Republic websites from… Read more »
AOL’s Crandall Returns To Wenner Media As Head Of Digital Content
Bill Crandall is leaving his post as AOL’s VP of Branded Experiences to return to his previous company, Wenner Media, as head of digital con… Read more »
Condé Nast Rolls Out iPad Subs For Wired, GQ; NY Mag Holds Off For Now
Condé Nast’s titles are continuing to roll out their subscription plans for the iPad following agreements between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and ot… Read more »
The Future Of iPad Publishing – The Indies Are Coming
[Ashley Norris is CEO of branded content advisory Sutro Digital and director of Anorak Publishing, an independent publisher which has just p… Read more »
Tablets Tip Future To First Digital Profit
Future says tablet magazine sales of over £100,000 ($161863.16) per month pushed its digital activities in to their first ever profit durin… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-19-11
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» Our paidContent Mobile Conference: Here’s What Happened (paidContent)
» Here’s an interesting debate: “This Is Your… Read more »
@ pcMobile: How Time Inc, Zite, & CrowdFusion Manage Platform & App Fatigue
Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business mo… Read more »
Next Issue Media’s Digital Storefront Opens For Business On Samsung Galaxy
Next Issue Media, the major magazine and newspaper joint venture, is officially opening its “digital storefront” on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
Primedia Sold To PE Firm For $525 Million
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Primedia (NYSE: PRM), the big print and online real estate listings company, has been sold to PE firm TPG Capital for $525 million, includin… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Fortune Article ‘Inside Apple’ Beats Out Full-Length Books
Among the usual suspects like Michael Connelly and James Patterson on the top 10 list of paid Kindle bestsellers this week was something of… Read more »
Tablets And Mobiles Still Await Their Killer Web App
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Google’s many recent announcements for music, movies, Chromebook, publishing and web apps underscore one thing – it is playing catch-up, try… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-13-11
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» Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal (MediaMemo)
» New App Rules Cause Ripples (WSJ)
» Alibaba CEO Lu Says… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-12-11
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» Four months after the FCC approved the merger between Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal, *Meredith* Attwell Baker, one of… Read more »
Sports Illustrated’s McDonell On Apple: Our Subscribers Are Most Important
One way publishers could skirt Apple’s 30 percent commission – just don’t offer new subscriptions through apps. That’s what Time (NYSE: TWX)… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Revamps Digital Strategy With Former Bloomberg Hire
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On top of emerging from bankruptcy, Reader’s Digest Association has been trying to remake its 89-year-old flagship so that it is more releva… Read more »
Forbes Still Sees Web, Print Separation As It Unveils European Magazine
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Despite wrapping its separate Forbes.com business into the mothership in 2009 after nearly a decade, Forbes Media’s top executives insist th… Read more »
Wenner Digital Chief Schwartz Returns To Reuters For Biz Dev Role
Steven Schwartz, who became Wenner Media’s first chief digital officer about 2-and-a-half years ago, is leaving the Rolling Stone publisher… Read more »
Time Inc. EVP John Q. Griffin Exiting The Company
Barely six months into the job, former National Geographic Society publishing exec John Q. Griffin is leaving Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) by “mutu… Read more »
News Corp.’s Perry Solomon To Handle Digital Biz Dev At Time Inc.
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Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is making its first big digital hire since the Jack Griffin debacle ended Interactive Advertising Bureau head Randall… Read more »
ESPN Consolidates Digital/Print Under Kosner; Turner’s Hands Golf To Kropp
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Turner Sports have both made two fairly significant personnel moves this morning designed to tighten the relationship b… Read more »
CNN Money Redesign Mimics Tablet Experience
CNNMoney, the online hub for Fortune and Money magazines, has overhauled its site to adjust to the look and feel of a tablet screen. In conj… Read more »
Updated: The New Yorker Leads Conde Nast’s iPad Subscription Push
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Conde Nast takes an important step this week towards finding a rational tablet subscription plan, albeit one that includes a significant cut… Read more »
