NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless is due to start selling Apple Inc's iPhone next year, bringing an end to AT&T Inc's role as the exclusive service provider for the blockbuster
Sports Illustrated hasn't come to Apple's iPad yet, but the publisher is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital magazine designed with Google in mind. Here's the demo that Editor Terry McDonell gave at Google's I/O developer conference today.
Qualifies as a form of publishing. But I bookmarked this because I admire the way this site is a collaborative effort to promote a lifestyle, and it's pretty well done. Simple layout, tons o f content, RSS feeds and Twitter.
Capitalizing on Oprah Winfrey's huge role recommending books to her fans, the
iPad edition of O, The Oprah Magazine, that's expected in the fourth
quarter will let users buy e-books and read them within the app itself.
Hearst sees a lot more potential in iPad advertising than just reproducing and
enhancing print ad pages.
once enough consumers own tablet computers, targeted and tailored advertising
will be much more important
Hearst is already seeing its digital ad rates increase steadily, partly because
of its ability to serve ads to visitors based on their behavior and demographics
Interesting article. I don't really agree with this statement:
Maybe too much, said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information. "I don't think that the U.S. market can support 50 or 60 e-readers," he said, adding that he had lost count of all the current models.
The market can support it; it gives people more options, but it'll just turn into a matter of what device addresses/achieves all of the needs of the consumer. Like the model Arnie went over in class, it's like a bell curve of technological advances that we want/would like, slowly get, but that eventually ends up swamping us. We start out wanting a and b, then c, d, and e are added, which we like. By the time it hits m, n, o, and p, we're overwhelmed.