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Daily Update for November 21, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 21st, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Conde Nast Britain gives subscribers free iPad access

by Steven Sande (Nov 10th, 2011)

Condé Nast Britain has begun to provide existing print subscribers with access to equivalent digital editions on the iPad at no cost. According to an article published on the UK Association of Online Publishers website, Apple's Newsstand app has increased the issue sales of British GQ by ...

Condé Nast sees iPad subscription boom with Newsstand

by Steven Sande (Oct 26th, 2011)

One of the more unsung apps available on the iPad with iOS 5 is Newsstand, Apple's portal for newspapers and magazines. While many iPad users seem to be unaware of the app and its purpose, publisher Condé Nast is reporting that subscriptions for the digital editions of its titles have ...

The New Yorker has sold 20,000 annual paid iPad subscriptions

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 2nd, 2011)

The New Yorker has sold more than 20,000 annual paid iPad subscriptions since Conde Nast overhauled its iPad magazine strategy in May. 20,000 readers are now subscribed to the annual US$59.99 iPad-only edition of the quintessential news, social, and literary magazine while every week another ...

NewsStand built into iOS 5

by Mel Martin (Jun 6th, 2011)

iOS 5 adds NewsStand, which is going to be huge for readers and publishers. Demoed at WWDC today, NewsStand looks just like the iBooks app, but this is for magazines and daily papers. Working a bit like the Kindle magazine system, NewsStand will update your magazines when they are published ...

Time Inc. exec makes the leap to iPad startup Flipboard

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 4th, 2011)

The New York Post is reporting that digital journalist Josh Quittner is leaving Time magazine to join startup Flipboard as its new editorial director. Flipboard is a personalized social magazine app for the iPad. You can enter your Facebook and Twitter accounts and follow any number of sites' RSS ...

Playboy archives coming to iPad tomorrow

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2011)

If you've been waiting for those Playboy archives ever since we heard about them in January, the wait is almost over. App Advice says the web app containing all back issues of the famously controversial gentleman's magazine will finally be ready to go on the iPad tomorrow, for a subscription ...

More developers getting on the iPad publish-it-yourself bandwagon

by Mel Martin (May 18th, 2011)

As the iPad shapes up to become an impressive force in publishing, we're seeing more developers get interested in providing solutions for small businesses, schools and organizations that just want to get a magazine out with a minimum of fuss. I looked at one system last month, and more are on the ...

Condé Nast adds additional publications to iPad subscription options

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2011)

Condé Nast was rumored to be reconsidering its pricing of subscription content on the iPad, but apparently that won't keep the publisher from expanding its offerings anyway. The company is going to be offering Allure, Glamour, Golf Digest and Vanity Fair in the mix, so users who want to ...

Conde Nast rethinks its iPad strategy

by Michael Grothaus (May 7th, 2011)

A few weeks ago, after Conde Nast announced the company was slowing the process of bringing magazines to the iPad due to the ability to deliver the scale advertisers want (ie: iPad magazine sales suck), I wrote that sales of magazines on the iPad wouldn't get better until publishers woke up and ...

The Daily gets 800K downloads but loses $10 million this quarter

by Mel Martin (May 5th, 2011)

The latest quarterly results from News Corporation say The Daily, the much-publicized iPad newspaper, has lost US$10 million. Much of the loss is associated start-up costs. News Corp. reports The Daily costs about $500,000 a week to produce, and revenues depend on advertising and subscriptions. ...

Hearst and Apple come to terms on subscriptions

by Michael Grothaus (May 4th, 2011)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hearst and Apple have come to an agreement over iPad magazine subscriptions. According to the WSJ, Hearst will begin selling a range of its magazines through iTunes for US$1.99 an issue or $19.99 for an annual subscription. Three magazines will kick ...

Making your own iPad magazine

by Mel Martin (Apr 29th, 2011)

A lot of publications are adding iPads and other portable devices to their distribution chains. As a result, we're beginning to see some solutions for small- and medium-sized companies that are starting to approach the idea of offering a self-publishing solution. You can always send people a PDF, ...

Conde Nast decision exemplifies why publishers need to rethink iPad magazines

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 22nd, 2011)

Today representatives from Conde Nast told AdAge that they are slowing the addition of any new Conde Nast magazines to the iPad. Why? According to AdAge, Conde Nast feels "conditions aren't quite right yet to deliver the ideal app editions at the kind of scale that advertisers want." In other ...

Apple Xcode magazine template could streamline iPad publishing

by Steven Sande (Mar 14th, 2011)

Magazines and newspapers on the iPad would appear to be a perfect match for the device, but attempts such as Rupert Murdoch's The Daily and Sir Richard Branson's Project have met with limited success. There are many possible reasons for this, ranging from Apple's demands for 30 percent of all ...