If it seems like everybody has a digital magazine, that's because they do. If you're a publisher and reading this, then I'm guessing you're not quite "everyone" yet, but you're
Digital magazines come in all shapes and sizes. We recommend web magazines, because they adapts to any device, even tablets. But a digital magazine app is most native to tablet
Generation Y, the millennials, were born in a hugely broad span of time for a "generation," which is between 1977 and 2001.
Depending on the pundits you read, those years may
App publishers are on the cutting edge of multiplatform media, but with great power comes great responsibility. Software changes, shifts in consumer tastes, and evolving devices and platforms all pose
Online magazine publishers are focusing on tightening up their apps and archives in the evolving effort to bolster digital product. In the midst of all of this activity, Talking New
Finding the right formula as a multiplatform media publisher means experimenting with methodologies while maintaining a disciplined approach to content. In other words, rotating tactics around a solid strategic core.
Magazine app publishing can be a volatile enterprise if you don't have the right plan in place. Mequoda Members know that you can't just throw a replica product up on
Digital magazines comprise the whole ecosystem of paperless magazines.
If a story can be read digitally, it's a digital magazine. It doesn't matter if it's read on the web, or a
Do you sell an online magazine or a digital magazine? How about both? Many publishers do, and they don't even realize that both have totally different business models.
Online magazines are
Flipboard, the digital magazine app, received an update recently. Flipboard version 3.0 brings some new functionality to iPhone and Android smartphones.
Niche publisher launches groundbreaking website magazine, revealing future of digital magazines
NORTHBROOK, IL (August 13, 2014) – Prime Publishing, publisher of 17 free craft websites and 13 free cooking sites, has
The 63-year-old print magazine had slipped from weekly to biweekly to quasi-monthly, but will return to a weekly schedule as a digital property for the Johnson Publishing Company, Folio: reports.
Michela O’Connor Abrams, president & CEO at Dwell Media, is no stranger to innovation. Launched in 2000 as a modernist design publication, Dwell is built on innovation in architecture, including
Field & Stream gets it right the second time
If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know that we’re big fans of Bonnier Corp. for its embrace of digital
The “World’s Largest Circulation Biblical Archaeology Magazine,” as Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) bills itself, lives in a small niche, parented by a nonprofit organization. It’s dedicated to studying the oldest
Recruitment Advisor has posted a fun article about the audience development campaign that's underway for the newspaper at the San Quentin correctional facility.
Twitter recently debuted a new feature called Nearby. It lets users see what people have tweeted in their local vicinity. This functionality opens up the possibility for businesses to promote
When we first heard about Google’s new Play Newsstand for Android devices … we were underwhelmed.
“Ah,” we thought, “Google is about to prove once again that they may understand search,
At last.
We’ve noted here that it seemed simply astounding that a publisher with the vast resources of Time Inc. was putting out a blurry product. TIME magazine – granddaddy of
Digital newsstands just got an upgrade. Google has decided to combine their Google Currents mobile news application and their Play Magazine app into something called Google Play Newsstand, which competes
As a 36-year-old, Outside magazine from Mariah Media is, naturally, quite physically fit. Established in 1977 by Rolling Stone co-founder and publisher Jann Wenner (also current owner of Men’s Journal
Popular Science took the necessary steps to clean up their online community. They've permanently disabled comments, all in the name of science. Suzanne LaBarre, online content director for Popular Science
The last time I read MAD magazine was as a young teenager. The thing I loved the most, besides Spy vs Spy (the Wikipedia link is included for you young
Does this work on TV or the web? That is the question Bloomberg TV producers are asking themselves now. Digiday has a full report on how this digital first strategy
Popular Science, founded in 1872 and now owned by mega-publisher Bonnier Corp., is the fifth-oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. But as old as it is, its focus
The New Yorker just boasted a milestone of 10.7 million unique visitors to their website from across the globe. Meanwhile, their circulation is up 17.7% year-over-year to 1.05 million.
Editor Nicholas
iPad-only magazine blows up the envelope gorgeously
It’s not often that someone defies conventional wisdom so profoundly and still makes a success of it.
But that’s what TRVL magazine has achieved.
TRVL is
What do you when your website already publishes every word that appears in your premium print and digital publications for free? Um, well, uh … if you’re The Atlantic, you
New York magazine has become one of our favorites around here. And not just because their iPad app is one of the more innovative ones we've seen, but also because
Apple Newsstand is making it easier and more efficient for magazine and newspaper lovers worldwide to gain access to their favorite reads.
Simon Wainwright conducted research on how consumers are
Most app producers will not make money off their product. In fact, 80% of respondents in App Promo’s First Annual Developer Survey said that they don’t generate enough revenue to
Selling a digital subscription to a magazine app is the game plan for many digital publishers as it brings them continuous revenue. However, one-off digital products in the form of
The iPad, like most publishing digital platforms, offers publishers many metrics that can be managed for business optimization
On Sunday afternoon, I found myself leaning back in my favorite easy chair
Many digital magazine apps are still underperforming due to some of the following reasons
With growth in the tablet industry, digital magazine publishing offers a significant opportunity. Unfortunately, the publishers and
4 components being used to go beyond magazine publishing
As the discussion of digital publishing’s future continues, some publishers are taking a step back to look at the environment.
For instance, publisher
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