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 | June 7, 2010 | 4 Comments
At the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, CEO Steve Jobs announced that in 65 days, five million e-books have been downloaded for the iPad. Using some sort of voodoo algorithm, he claims that amounts to 22% of all e-book sales. I am not sure how he calculated that given many of the e-book retailers are [...]
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by Allen Weiner | May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Google has dropped a few hints about the upcoming release of Google Editions, its megasized e-book marketplace that aims to take on other e-book platform providers. What makes that scenario a bit complicated is that some e-book distribution platforms are operated by device companies (i.e. Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Sony, with whom Google wants [...]
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Category: e-books magazines Microsoft Publishing Tags: Amazon, Apple, Chrome, E Ink, e-books, e-readers, Google, Google Editions, iPad, LCD, Sony
by Allen Weiner | April 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Much was made about the concerns raised by a small handful of U.S. universities who are banning iPads from accessing their campus networks because of the strain it may put on their bandwidth not to mention some issues to device may have connecting to the school’s WiFi network. Being a skeptic, it struck me as [...]
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by Allen Weiner | March 2, 2010 | Comments Off
A trio of news stories adds further credibility to a research thread Gartner has been writing about for more than a year which states that magazines will have a tough ride to become multiplatform digital distributors. (“Magazines Fall Behind in the Quest for Digital Publishing Riches,” Dec. 2009—behind gartner.com pay wall). The Wall Street Journal [...]
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Category: Publishing Tags: Apple, Conde Nast, Hearst, iPad, iPhone, magazines, Time
by Allen Weiner | February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
In a previous blog post, I debated aloud the merits of value-added e-books, questioning a consumer’s interest in paying a few more dollars for an e-book that contained videos, puzzles or whatnot. Also, given the current scrum among platform and device providers, was there a clear path toward creating enhanced content? What never dawned on [...]
Category: Publishing Tags: e-books, Financial Times, FT, Pearson
by Allen Weiner | February 11, 2010 | 4 Comments
Let’s try and untangle the congested freeway of e-book news that had led to the enhanced content myth. No matter what business model evolves as the de fact online retail model (wholesale to retail or agency model), publishers are struck, for the most part, with existing market pricing for best-sellers. With $9.99 being the norm, [...]
Category: Publishing Tags: Adobe, Apple, e-books, e-readers, iPad, Kindle, Nook
by Allen Weiner | January 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Apparently, as Newsday found out, only 35 people signed up to pay $5 a week for full access to Newsday.com. So, if Apple and other tableteers are not prepared to offer ad platforms for their content marketplaces, we could hear a loud thud in the digital publishing space.
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Category: Apple Publishing Tags: Apple, Newsday
by Allen Weiner | January 21, 2010 | 4 Comments
I must admit, as a former digital newspaper executive, I was caught up in the frenzy and promise that forthcoming tablet devices, from Apple, HP, etc.. would help print publishers and other “old media” sorts get off life support and into the black. While this is a topic we will examine in greater detail in [...]
Category: Apple Publishing Tags: Apple, Apple tablet, Newspapers, Publishing, Verizon
