Since entering the App business in May, Condé Nast is reporting 242,000 digital downloads of its eight available titles, which include Allure, Glamour, Golf Digest, GQ, Self, The New Yorker, Wired, and Vanity Fair. This number includes digital subscriptions, single copy purchases, and print subscribers who chose to add digital additions to their packages. This [...]
Marsh Supermarkets joins 112 other grocery retailers who use My Web Grocer services which enables customers to select and purchase groceries from the comfort of their computer. Shoppers will have access to planning tools including online circulars, personalized shopping lists and recipes, enabling them to plan meals and stay informed about sales and specials that [...]
Tumblr, a rapidly maturing microblogging platform recently passed 250 million page views per day. There are currently at least 61 publications active on the platform, including Newsweek, GQ, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Economist, and the most followed, Vogue. These publications use Tumblr as a behind-the-scenes look at the magazine, an outlet for voicing opinions [...]
Though it’s not Hearst’s first magazine app, it is their first completely homegrown one. All of Hearst’s magazines already are available in digital format via third-party platforms, but Pop Mech is the first to be built directly by Hearst. The iPad version has a similar look and feel to the print magazine, as the reader [...]
Publishers are eager for the launch of Apple’s new Tablet device. Condé Nast and Time Inc. have already created mockups of their magazines for it, but concerns persist about Apple’s serving as an intermediary between publishers and their customers. In an earlier instance of Apple in the go-between role, music publishers were happy for the [...]
A consortium of five large publishers — Time Inc., Conde Nast, Hearst Corporation, Meredith and News Corporation — today “…announced plans to build an industry-standard platform to present their work on the Web, phones and e-readers in a richer, more flexible and more lucrative form than is possible today.” The New York Times Dec. [...]
The Atlantic, which shed fiction from its pages in 2005, is now selling individual stories (too short for book form) through Amazon’s Kindle service. The New York Times Dec. 4, 2009
Called Skiff and meant to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Store, Hearst’s new publishing service will sell digital versions of newspapers and magazines for electronic readers and other devices. Skiff will be more visually appealing to readers and will include advertising, which should make it more lucrative for media companies. The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, [...]
The Neilsen Company is hoping to provide combined ratings for TV and internet viewing. With more consumers watching TV episodes via the Internet, Neilsen has been under pressure to track viewership more effectively. These ratings are vitally important to the TV industry because they are used to sell an estimated $70 billion in advertising each year. [...]
Playing catch-up to Amazon’s Kindle, B&N will introduce its new e-reader, called the Nook, at an event in NYC today. The Wall Street Journal Oct. 20, 2009 Paid subscription may be required.