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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 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 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 >>

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 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 >>