9 posts and columns on Hulu for magazines

"Hulu For Magazines" Opens Its Android Newsstand

in Media on May 17, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

A year after Apple started selling digital magazines on the iPad, a consortium of publishers opens its own newsstand, via Google. It only works on some Samsung Galaxy tablets for now, but it’s a start.

"Hulu for Magazines" Launching Early 2011–But Only for Android

in Media on November 11, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture, plans to have its digital storefront open early next year. But you won’t be able to shop there if you’ve got an iPad.

“Hulu for Magazines” Gets a CEO: Good Luck, Morgan Guenther!

in Media on June 15, 2010 at 6:46 am PT

Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture that was supposed to help the big publishers negotiate with the likes of Apple and Amazon in the e-reader market? Now it has a CEO, who has a very tough job.

News Corp. Buys Hearst’s Skiff Platform, Leaves the Reader

in Media on June 14, 2010 at 12:31 pm PT

In January, Hearst and Sprint showed off something called a Skiff e-reader, which was designed with newspapers and magazines in mind and was supposed to go on sale this year. Hope you weren’t planning on buying one.

Hearst Is Ready to Show Off Its Skiff E-Reader Platform, but It Doesn’t Want to Tell Quite Yet. Is Anyone Ready to Buy?

in Media on January 8, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Here’s another e-reader clamoring for attention in a Consumer Electronics Show full of e-readers: The Skiff Reader, produced by a company funded by publisher Hearst Corp. and supported by Sprint. But in many ways, the Skiff Reader’s specs are beside the point, because the real point of its parent company isn’t to produce e-reader devices at all–it wants to create a publishing and distribution platform. Does this sound familiar? And does it sound like something another publisher might want to buy?
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Condé Nast, With Help From a Nearly Naked Rihanna, Takes Another Step Toward Digital Magazines

in Media on December 18, 2009 at 12:33 pm PT

Condé Nast has taken another small step into the future of digital magazines: The publisher has put a second edition of its GQ magazine up for sale on Apple’s iTunes Store. Seminude pop star aside, this doesn’t seem as sexy as the Tablet of Tomorrow talk. But the fact that people are indeed buying magazines in digital form seems pretty relevant to me.
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Now’s the Time, Finally: Publishers Announce Their “Hulu for Magazines.” Next Up: Building It.

in Media on December 8, 2009 at 6:01 am PT

You’ve been reading about it for a couple of months and now it’s finally official: The magazine industry is forming its own joint venture to control distribution of digital products that don’t yet exist.

Game On: Time Inc. Shows Off a Tabletized Sports Illustrated

in Media on December 2, 2009 at 8:24 am PT

Last month, Condé Nast played show-and-tell with its concept of a digitized magazine. Today it’s Time Inc.’s turn: The publisher is demoing a concept version of Sports Illustrated it says will be able to run on whatever tablet Apple or any else has up their sleeves.
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Condé Nast’s Offering for Apple’s Mystery Tablet: Wired Magazine

in Media on November 18, 2009 at 1:19 pm PT

Here’s yet another content creator that’s convinced Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the purported gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 titles. But Condé, like other publishers, says Apple won’t actually talk to the company about its plans for the device–or even acknowledge that it has plans.
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