Peter Kafka in Media on February 10, 2011 at 8:44 pm PT
The Blog King doesn’t want to be the Blog King: He wants his sites to be as compelling as TV. Here’s his promo reel.
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John Squires, J. Squires Consulting in News on February 10, 2011 at 8:39 am PT
In recent weeks, we’ve heard growing concern from magazine and newspaper publishers regarding the challenge of providing content for mobile media while preserving their print franchises. The concern is nothing new, but it’s apparent that content providers are at risk of losing track of their customers like toddlers in a shopping mall.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s fuzzy math. But that doesn’t mean this is a bad deal.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 25, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Barnes & Noble Inc., intent on winning over a new generation of readers, including some who haven’t yet learned to tie their shoes, is launching a digital collection of more than 12,000 books under the name Nook Kids.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 12, 2010 at 6:50 am PT
No reason not to do this: Amazon is carving out room on its digital shelves for “Singles”–essentially, mini e-books for its Kindle platform.
Or, if you prefer, you can think of them as very long magazine articles.
Geoffrey A. Fowler in Personal Technology on May 26, 2010 at 6:14 pm PT
By Geoffrey Fowler.
While much of the attention has focused on the e-book reading devices, it’s becoming clear that the important decision isn’t just which device you choose, but also which e-bookstore you decide to frequent.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 3, 2010 at 8:01 am PT
Time Inc.’s newest product took nine months of meticulous work, carefully calibrated focus groups and a bunch of money. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the Internet, the Kindle or the iPad.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 3, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Cheers to Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who has taken to writing long open letters to his readers about changes in his company’s e-book pricing model. Alas, the newest installment, on the company’s blog, doesn’t add much more to the discussion.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT
The Wired iPad app Condé Nast showed off this month looks great. But the chances that the publisher will give its other magazines the same treatment don’t look promising–unless Apple and Adobe can figure out their Flash problem. Anyone want to bet on that?
Peter Kafka in Media on February 16, 2010 at 10:36 am PT
We’ve seen the iPad. And we’ve seen what some magazine people think their stuff might look like once it gets to the wonderdevice.
But what will it really look like? Here’s a more informed guess, via Condé Nast’s Wired magazine, which has been working on an iPad-compatible version of the title for many months.
