Spectacular profits for Digital Magazines

Submitted by Hans Janssen on 18 March 2010

The business potential of a tablet device

Suppose you are publisher of a consumer magazine. You publish monthly, your circulation in print is 100 and you are planning to publish a digital version of your magazine on a tablet device (and you are in the lucky position you have the right system to create this ;-) ).

How many copies of the digital issue 'April 2012' do you think you will sell and what happens to your profitability? read more >>

the iPad: just for books and papers?

Submitted by Dennis van Nooij on 03 February 2010

The announced support for the ePub format and the ability to download books from the iTunes store will probably give book sales a big boost and must have scared Amazon. The format is great for reading articles that are focussed on plain text, hence the focus on books and possibly newspapers. I doubt the iPad is the best option for reading them though. read more >>

Web Fonts Key for Magazines on Apple's iPad

Submitted by Steve Schaffran on 28 January 2010

Web Fonts May Be the Key for Magazines on the iPad (and all the Rest of the Digital Platforms)

Following Apple's iPad launch, I was struck by the juxtaposition of two observations by the commentators. Firstly, several noted the failure of the Flash component in the demo of the New York Times pages; apparently, like its cousins the iPod Touch and the iPhone, the iPad does not play Flash content. Secondly, as detailed in the extreme by a post at Gawker, there was no glitzy demo of magazine content. read more >>

Rocking 2010

Submitted by Erik Schut on 08 January 2010

Early January a lot of people are sharing their expectations for the coming year.  I don't like to be a sheep, but I do want to share my view on 2010, so here we go :-)

2010 is going to be very very exciting. read more >>

2009 Slow? No way!

Submitted by Hans Janssen on 17 December 2009

 2009 was yet another exciting year. In many ways.

'Delay' turned out to be the toughest competitor this year. It made it hard to predict business. read more >>