Bloomberg is reporting that Ruport Murdock’s much heralded The Daily is struggling to get enough subscribers to break even. The Daily’s daily usage is about 120,000 – much less than the 500,000 it needs to break even. News Corp.’s digital publication isn’t compelling enough to change people’s reading habits and its marketing push, including an […]
Yesterday Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire tablet. The device is being hailed as the first serious tablet to compete against Apple’s iPad. It sells at $199 and has a whole bunch of features that you can see on their site. Here’s Bloomberg’s report about the Kindle Fire. In somewhat related news, at least two […]
The New York Post has implemented a new way of boost downloads to their new iPad app. All iPad traffic accessing their website is being directed to a page instructing them to download their iPad app. No other access via iPad is allowed.Jim Romenesko quotes internet guru Dave Winer:Okay this is bad. This is breaking […]
WWDMedia is reporting that a fourth reporter for the iPad only publication, The Daily, has left for other opportunities. Culture reporter Molly Young joins Lauren Bans, Heather Havrilesky and political reporter Jon Ward who have left the two month old publication.“It was incredibly fun to work in a newsroom: lots of reporting, lots of running […]
Interesting rumor from The Mac Observer. Apple may be working on building a set of template tools for iPad-based magazines to include in its Xcode developer tools. Assuming the report is accurate, such a move would give developers a standardized set of tools that could make it easier for creating publications as apps.Also rumored is […]
Pretty cool. Anyone know which app he’s using?H/T: GoComics and Comics Alliance
Loop Sight reports that invitations have been sent out to journalists to cover the announcement of the iPad only newspaper The Daily. The Daily is funded by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The event and announcement is scheduled for February 2. CEO Rupert Murdoch will join Apple VP Eddy Cue. Earlier reports had Steve Jobs attending […]
Today was supposed to be the launch of the much anticipated The Daily. According to All Things D, The Daily is being pushed back “for weeks, not months” to allow Apple more time to deliver its new subscription feature.The app itself is reportedly done and the editorial team has been producing sample editions for it.
From what Poynter writer Damon Kiesow was able to find in the source code of the newly launched The Daily website, Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily will be strong on photos and social media. A section labeled “Story Carousel” includes links to icons that seem intended to function as forward and back buttons for paging through […]
Citing growing interest in the ability to read instantly rather than go to a store: Starting April 1, every Archie Comics title ? featuring Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and all their pals in Riverdale ? will be available for purchase digitally the same day it’s released in comic shops and newsstands. It marks the first […]
The ever changing date for the launch of Ruport Murdoch’s iPad only “The Daily” has changed once again, but The Cutline is reporting that its sources are saying it will launch on the 19th with both Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs together on stage at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.I’m sure
For those of you with the iPads and a voracious appetite for comic books, Dr. Macenstein has a great idea – buy the complete collections on DVD from Amazon and import those into iBooks. He writes: Each DVD has about a decade worth of comics on it, and we’re talking the ENTIRE ORIGINAL comic, including […]
Cartoonist and animator Michael Jantze is teaching a Master Class on January 8th at the Charles M. Schulz Museum. The subject is New Media and Michael will delve into iPads, online animation, web comics, and more. Michael is well suited for this class, he currently teaches art and animation at the Savannah College of Art […]
All Things D is reporting that according to their sources, News Corp.’s iPad only news publication dubbed “The Daily” is set to launch January 17. Given that News Corp. has hired dozens of blabby journalists for the Daily, and interviewed many more, lots of other details about the app/service have leaked out already: It will […]
Women’s Wear Daily reports that despite the high hopes for the iPad, the magical device has not been the boon for magazines as hoped. Many magazines that are available on the iPad, such as Esquire, People and The New Yorker, have not posted their digital single-issue sales to the ABC. But Vanity Fair sold 8,700 […]