by Allen Weiner | August 1, 2011 | Comments Off
Hollywood has long exaggerated the persona of a newspaper editor. Lou Grant, the grumbly guy with rolled-up shirtsleeves (Lou was a TV news producer, wasn’t he?); Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, the erudite, “You don’t have it,” sort of guy who demands perfection; even the editor in “Absence of Malice’ (portrayed by Josef Sommer) who [...]
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Category: Newspapers Tags: Chicago Tribune, editors, Hartford Courant, newspaper editors, Newspapers, Washington Post
by Allen Weiner | October 26, 2010 | 2 Comments
Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest physical book retailer, is following up its November 2009 release of the Nook, an e-ink e-reader, with the NOOKcolor, a device that uses a 7-inch LCD/LED screen to display books, newspapers, magazines and a few additional services such as Pandora. The device is scheduled to be available on November [...]
Category: Amazon Apple e-books Newspapers Publishing Tags: B&N, Barnes and Noble, Blackberry, devices, Nook, samsung
by Allen Weiner | June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
After lighting up the pundits with some impressive demos and strategic vision as CES 2010, Skiff has been reduced to becoming yet another element in Rupert Murdoch’s puzzling alchemy that masquerades as a digital media strategy. The purchase, along with an investment in news paywall provider Journalism Online, underscores the company’s posture that content should [...]
Category: e-books magazines Newspapers Publishing Tags: Amazon, AT&T, Hearst, News Corp, Skiff, Sprint
by Allen Weiner | January 27, 2010 | 6 Comments
Rumors being what they are, much of what Steve Jobs announced at the Ipad launch event didn’t come as a surprise to the overload crowd at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The iPad is a tweener that fits nicely between an iPhone/iTouch and netbook computer. With a 9.7-inch screen weighing in at 1.5 [...]
Category: Apple magazines Mobile Newspapers Tags: Alex, Apple, AT&T, Dell, e-books, entourage systems, iPad, iPod, Plastic Logic, Publishing, Sony, Spring Design, Sprint, Verizon
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Amazon has plans to change its royalty schedule for publishers beginning this summer, doing a 180 on its 70-30 split. There are rules a’plenty, but it’s a clear pre-emptive move in the face of Apple’s possible launch of a tablet-based device. Apple is said to be willing to offer publishers a split that more resembles [...]
Category: blogging citizen media Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apple tablet, books, Kindle, publishers, tablets
by Allen Weiner | January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments
Based on the number of pre-event press calls and steady stream of press releases, the E in CES 2010 stands for e-reading. Two days before I land in Las Vegas, I envision devices in every form factor each proclaiming to be the best thing to hit publishing since the AP Stylebook. I have now lost [...]
Category: Amazon magazines Newspapers Publishing Tags: Alex, Apple, CES, CES 2010, entourage systems, Plastic Logic, Que, Skiff, Spring Design
by Allen Weiner | December 9, 2009 | Comments Off
According to this report from Reuters, Yahoo is open to selling HotJobs fir the right price. If this report is true, then I suspect Yahoo’s newspaper consortium will lose much of its momentum if not outright come to an end; there are more than 600 newspapers in the consortium and HotJobs is one of the [...]
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Category: blogging citizen media Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo Tags: Bing, Google, HotJobs, Living Stories, newspaper consortium, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | December 8, 2009 | Comments Off
While Google and the publishing world at large debates their long-term relationship, the search giant has launched another tool to aid publishers—Living Stories. Living Stories is an interactive platform that allows news organizations to format a variety of branded content elements into an interesting, up-to-the-minute web page that showcases an individual news brand. Fresh out [...]
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by Allen Weiner | December 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
After a brief delay, about half of those who pre-ordered the Barnes & Noble Nook will soon be receiving their e-readers. With that in mind, the combatants are now out of their corners and are ready to do battle in the e-reader ring. In this corner is Amazon’s Kindle: a neat device that has a [...]
Category: Google magazines Newspapers Publishing Tags: Amazon, B&N, Barnes and Noble, e-readers, Google, Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader
by Allen Weiner | December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
Google has announced a new web crawler especially for Google News which easily allows news publishers to block their content from Google’s News index, general index or both. Know as Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), Google is going a step further than the typical block or no block by allowing publishers to block or allow individual [...]
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