How Asahi Shimbun's 12 Mobile Phone News Sites Work
Asahi Shimbun’s Atsushi Sato explains how his company’s 12 sites for mobile phone users work and earn money.
Category: E-Readers & Digital Editions
Printed Newspaper Executives Visions of the Future
I frequently write about newspapers’ experience with the new medium because theirs has been the longest experience. The New York Times launched the world’s first online edition in 1974 with LexisNexis, followed by many magazines and other newspapers on that professional online…
A Look at U.K. Newspapers Using Digital Editions
An overview of U.K. Newspapers that use digital editions
Top 10 Magazine Digital Editions
More than 100 U.S. magazines, twice the number from a year ago, now count significant numbers of digital editions among their circulation figures, according to the auditing firm of BPA Worldwide. Here are the top ten as of December 2004: eWeek 65,000…
The Digital Edition Dirigibles
At the highest inhabitable level of the Empire State Building in New York City is something redolent of the University of Missouri’s new EmPRINT digital edition project. When the Empire State Building was designed in the late 1920s, architects gave its top…
Hitachi to Sell Unrollable E-Paper in 2006
Hitachi plans to begin selling a color-capable electronic paper in 2006. Rather than use organic light-emitting (OLED) diodes, the way that Philips’ e-paper does, Hitachi’s device will use a liquid crystal displays (LCD) 3-centimeters thick and equipped with a special panel that…
OK, So What Will Be A Good Use of RSS for News Publishers?
[UPDATE: Some blogs which have linked to this item call it my vision of the newspaper of 2010. Calling it that is inaccurate. I believe that e-paper devices will be in common use by 2010 and that consumers will use these device…
Garcia Predicts Conversion of American Broadsheets to Tabloid
More than a year ago, we wrote about Mario Garcia, a world renown expert on newspaper design, predicting that the majority of the world’s newspapers would became tabloid-sized within his lifetime. Garcia a few years earlier had predicted that a large number…
Mobile and Digital Edition Ideas from 'Beyond the Printed Word'
The annual IFRA/WAN/FIPP Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference was held in Prague yesterday and today. A summary of the presentations is available from WAN and there is an interesting conference moblog. Here from the conference (my thanks to the IFRA…
Woeful Circulation for Just Retailed Digital Edition of Newspapers
The American Press Institute’s Cyberjournalist.net picked up our item last week about the woeful circulation of newspaper digital editions. Cyberjournalist’s lead sentence, although well-intentioned, made a conclusion that we didn’t: “In case there was any doubt that digital editions of newspapers were…
Woeful Circulations for Digital Editions
SEE AN UPDATE TO THIS POSTING Here are a few circulation figures for some U.S. newspapers’ digital editions: USA Today – 900 self-reported (0.05 percent of the total weekday print circulation of 2,154,539). The New York Times – 3,172 ABC-audited (0.28 percent…
The Woes of the Christian Science Monitor
Last week, the Christian Science Monitor (an excellent, objective, and non-religious newspaper) published a story admitting what’s long been no secret within the American newspaper industry: it’s parent operation, the Christian Science Publishing Society (CSPS), which also publish the Christian Science Sentinel,…
Newsstand, Inc., Unveils Its Browser-Based Digital Edition Tool
Many corporations and companies prohibit employees from installing outside software on company computers. That prohibition has long been a problem for digital editions that require users to install a such application such Newsstand, Inc., or Zinio. Newsstand responded today with iBrowse, its…
More Prototypes of Rollable E-Paper
I keep telling publishers that electronic paper isn’t science fiction but science fact, technologiy that will go into commercial production this decade. I’m particular a fan of the rollable versions. For example, the picture above is of Polymer Vision B&W prototype demonstrated…
Slate's Jack Shafer on Digital Editions
Jack Shafer of Slate.com has a solid analysis of the digital editions produced by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and other American newspapers. His conclusion is that “these electronic editions [are] as comfortable as a fat man trapped…
Guardian and Observer Digital Editions
We agree with the favorable review by Kieren McCathy in The Register of the beta versions from The Guardian and The Observer of London. A consumer doesn’t first need to download any software. Each page of the newspaper appears on the screen…
Trial Offer of USA TODAY Digital Editions for Travelers
USA TODAY joins The New York Times as the two newspapers whose digital editions are being offered free to travelers in more than 700 American hotels, airports, and restaurants.
David Shaw on Digital Editions
Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw reviews digital editions and likes what he sees. He prefers them over reading newspapers’ Web sites. I miss the serendipity of coming unexpectedly upon an interesting story I would never have thought to look for.…
Wayport to Offer Free Digital Editions of NYT in 800 U.S. Locations
Wayport, a company that provides Wi-Fi wireless and wired Internet access in hotels, airports and McDonald’s restaurants, will offer free downloads of The New York Times‘ digital editions. Wayport provides Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless and broadband wired Internet access in 680 U.S. hotels…
True 'Convergence'
For several years, we’ve been advocating that ‘convergence’ isn’t media companies combining their print and broadcast newsrooms — that’s multimedia, not convergence. True convergence is the convergence of print and of online into a single product. Not multiple products (newsprint, Web, broadcast,…
How The ABC Counts Weekly Online as Daily in Print
Should a newspaper be allowed to include its Web site’s paying subscribers among its count of print circulation? In a remarkably wimpy decision earlier this week, the U.S. Audit Bureau of Circulation has allowed The Wall Street Journal to do exactly that.…
Books.com Goes Private
Barnes & Noble today announced plans to pay US$115 million for the 25 percent of BarnesAndNoble.com that it doesn’t already own and to turn that publicly held online operation into a private subsidiary. That news might be perceived due to failures in…
How to Count Clients
As we earlier this month mentioned, a U.S. television network has asked us to review for accuracy some of the facts it plans to report in a forthcoming program on digital newspaper editions. One problem the producer is having is that one…
Give the Gift That Keeps On Downloading
We received an e-mailed press release from Newsstand.com this morning, suggesting that, “When searching for the perfect gift for friends, family and business associates this holiday season, NewsStand Inc. suggests purchasing digital edition subscriptions of newspapers and magazines.” That’s not a bad…
Newsstand.com Offer New Scientist
Newsstand.com has begun distributing a digital edition of New Scientist magazines. That’s a bit of a coup for two reasons. “This is a great leap forward for New Scientist. It will bring the magazine to a whole new audience, many of whom…
PBS to Broadcast Story About Digital Editions
The Public Broadcasting Corporation‘s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, is preparing a story about newspapers’ digital editions, mainly those retailed through Newsstand.com or Olive Software. This US news program, known for its thoughtful and in-depth reporting, has been working on this story…
Yomiuri Shimbun Begins Digital Edition
Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest circulation daily newspaper (weekday: 14,242,000 copies) has begun wholesaling a digital edition. According to Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association) Yomiuri will sends its PDF files to NewspaperDirect of Canada and Konica Business Machines…
Overreacting Against eBooks
Navigating in New Media is much like flying an airplane. Unless you’re experienced with these media’s vagarities and business cycles, you tend to overreact and make problems worse. Porpoising is what pilots call those overreactions, which aim too high or too low,…
The Future of Printing
Electronic paper will begin to steal market share from print as soon as 3 years from now, predicted Michael Kleper, the Paul and Louis Miller Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology‘s School of Print Media. Moreover, within three years, printers…
Barnes & Noble Closes its eBooks
Barnes & Noble.com today announced that, effective immediately, it will no longer sell electronic books. It told its customers that they have 90 days to download any eBooks that they’ve already purchased but not yet downloaded. “After December 9, 2003, eBook titles…
News for the Welsh Disapora
The 20% of the Welsh population who actually speak their national language finally have their own online weekly newspaper. Y-Cymro, the weekly newspaper for North Wales, has launched a Web site, an e-mail edition, and a digital edition. “We decided to introduced…
Satellite Newspapers Licenses New American Subsidiary
One of the oldest vendors of digital edition technologies hasn’t strongly penetrated the American market, but hopes a reorganization announced earlier this week will change that. PEPC Worldwide of The Hague, which earlier this month changed its name to Satellite Newspapers, manufactures…
Garcia Predicts Broadsheets Will Become Smaller Sized
Broadsheet newspapers are large, much larger than handheld electronic devices such as Tablets PCs. So, won’t broadsheets be unreadable when shrunk onto those devices’ displays? No, what makes you assume that broadsheets will stay broad in the future? “I wouldn’t be surprised…
Pfeiffer on Seybold PDF Summit in Amsterdam
The authoritative Andreas Pfeiffer reports on last week’s Seybold PDF Summit in Amsterdam (which roughly coincided with Adobe’s release of Acrobat 6.0). Among Pfeiffer’s conclusions is that as Acrobat becomes more extensive and complex, “The one thing PDF is less and less,…
Comparing North American and European PDF Practices
Planet PDF has a story about Seybold’s comparison of North American and European publishers’ PDF practices.
Newsstand.com Integrates Adobe PDF Library
To make Newsstand.com‘s software more compatible with publishers’ pre-press systems and thereby gain competitive advantages, Newsstand.com yesterday announced a deal with Adobe Systems, Inc., to integrate key technologies of Adobe’s PDF technology library into NewsStand consumer software.
Dr. Dobb's Journal's Convoluted Digital Edition Offering
The most convoluted combination of print, digital edition, and paid-content arrangements we’ve ever seen has just been announced by the computer magazine Dr. Dobb’s Journal. The magazine has launched a PDF-based digital edition, but it’s only available to printed edition subscribers and…
Web Sites vs. Digital Editions: A False Competition
We received nice coverage this week in Online Journalism Review‘s story about newspaper digital editions. The only thing we’d change is to note we haven’t ‘worked with all the major digital-edition vendors’ and hadn’t said that. We work for the publishers, not…
PEPC WorldWide Becomes Satellite Newspapers
PEPCWorldwide, whose satellite-connected vending boxes can on-demand print any of 119 daily newspapers from 48 countries, is rebranding itself as Satellite Newspapers. Steve Mannen, CEO of the Dutch company, explains, “This new easy-to-remember name reflects our company’s focus on the seamless distribution…
London Times and FT to Launch Digital Editions
The Times of London and the Daily Telegraph, competitors, are the latest UK dailies to begin publishing digital editions. What’s notable about these large (weekday print circulations ranging from 500,000 to 2 million) dailies publishing digital editions is that the Audit Bureau…