Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Axel Springer bans adblock users from Bild online According to the report by Reuters at The Guardian: More than 30% of Germans online use such software, many more than the 5% of internet users globally in 2014, according to Dublin-based analytics and advisory firm PageFair, which develops “ad …Tuesday, December 4, 2012
News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App - Peter KafkaI know they’re not the same thing, but it’s interesting to watch News Corp. fail with The Daily while Marco Arment’s The Magazine is gaining altitude, despite production by a relative publishing newb and one other staffer. One thing is clear: …Monday, October 22, 2012
Amazon’s “phantom” 20% VAT for UK ebook salesIan Griffiths and Dan Milmo of The Guardian, quoting ” a contract seen by the Guardian,” presumably between Amazon and one of its UK publishing “partners”: If the base price exceeds the base price … provided to a similar service then … …Tuesday, August 21, 2012
A Vision for the Future of Newspapers—20 Years AgoMark Potts, writing about his major part in what might be properly called the genesis of the first digital publishing strategy: As someone said when they saw PostCard a few years later, “It looks like the Web.” Except that, in those early days of …Saturday, August 18, 2012
How to Save the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily NewsJoel Mathis, writing at Philadelphia Magazine‘s blog The Philly Post, may have a point. But going online-only would require a serious modernization of the Philly.com brand and site design. I don’t see the ownership having the vision to …Friday, June 1, 2012
"Philip," writing at his blog Ocracoke Island Journal about the ebook edition of War and Peace he bought on his Nook (emphasis below is mine): As I was reading, I came across this sentence: “It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….” … For the sentence above I discovered …