During the first week of Newsstand--the Apple iOS 5 feature which is making marketing iPad publications much easier--News Corp.'s Daily was the top-grossing app. “It’s intriguing that an upstart publication is beating Condé Nast titles and the New York Times,” editor Jesse Angelo told Keith Kelly yesterday. Indeed, The Daily outsold National Geographic, WIRED, The Read More
W magazine launched an iPad app called The Daily W today, according to a press release from the magazine. Although it launched in conjunction with the October issue, the app is unrelated to W print editions. It is "a daily offering of exquisite 'must sees' and 'must haves' carefully curated by the editors of W," including exclusive Read More
The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future is an absorbing look at the World Trade Center site—including the original development of the Twin Towers, the devastating attacks that brought them down and the elaborate process behind the construction of the memorial and the accompanying museum.
It contains some 400 still photographs and hours of video clips. It will be free to the public between September 1 and September 12 (mark your calendar) and can be purchased for $9.95 thereafter.
And it will be available exclusively on the Apple iPad. Read More
Not long after Scott Dadich was appointed executive editor of digital magazine development for all of Condé Nast, “the tops of the mastheads,” as the senior editorial staffs are called, filed into the company’s fourth-floor lecture hall for a series of meetings. Condé’s new iPad king was holding court.
This wasn’t the first time the tastemakers of 4 Times Square had met Mr. Dadich. He’d been shopping “that Wired thing” around the company since it debuted in iTunes’ App Store in May 2010 to considerable fanfare and a flurry of downloads.
But this time, Mr. Dadich faced a few more sets of crossed arms. Read More
Rupert Murdoch's pet project, The Daily, has some impressive aerial footage today of the devastation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which was obtained with an unusual tool.
The Observer was the first to report, back in November, that the staff of the iPad app was working with "a journalistic secret weapon," the Read More
The sheets are still warm from the joint rollout of The Daily by Apple and Newscorp, but it sounds like the iPad only newspaper is already playing the field.
Peter Kafka writes this morning that The Daily will be headed to Android tablets as soon as this spring. This move was expected,"But I’m still a Read More
The Daily was News Corp.'s valentine to Apple, a premium tablet product that was unveiled this month by Rupert Murdoch, Jesse Angelo, and Apple's Eddy Cue.
But when it came to the advertising that would be featured in The Daily, the logical choice for ad placement, Apple's iAd, lost out to the New York start-up Read More
The iPad was supposed to be the walled garden where newspapers could get back to writing news and readers could get back to paying for it.
But just one day after the launch of The Daily a Tumblr has appeared, The Daily: Indexed, with links to all the paper's free content.
As this Tumblr points out, there Read More
Google unveiled Honeycomb today, their version of Android built specifically for tablet computers. It showed a good bit of their arsenal in the upcoming tablet war with Apple. The fact that they displayed part of it on a Macbook Pro, however, was an ironic reminder of how much catching up Google has to do.
Honeycomb Read More
The Daily's launch was held today (thing looks promising!), and only one minor glitch marred the proceedings. That occured when a reporter from the BBC (News Corp.'s mortal enemy) took the opportunity to ask Rupert Murdoch an uncomfortable question. Have a look:
Speaking at the DLD conference in Munich yesterday, James Murdoch, son of Rupert and head of News Corp.'s operations in Asia and Europe, said the currently-delayed tablet newspaper The Daily would appear in "a few weeks."
He didn't have much to report beyond that. The newspaper will still cost 99 cents a week and focus Read More
School budgets are being slashed left and right, but not when it comes to iPads at least in some districts.
Roslyn High School in Long Island, which is in the second-richest county in New York, hopes to eventually buy iPads for its 1,100 students at $750 apiece, The New York Times reports.
"I think this could Read More
The relationship between Apple and major magazine publishers ended the year on a sour note. Sales of magazine apps on the iPad, initially promising, had fallen off at a dismal rate.
This morning the Wall Street Journal highlighted Google's efforts to build a digital newstand which would carry high end magazine apps on the Read More
Digital sales dropped for every magazine that provides subscription data to the American Bureau of Circulation, reports WWD's MemoPad.
Wired never again came close to its 100,000-sale first edition, and now appears to be leveling out around 22,000. Glamour app sales dropped 20 percent from September to October and another 20 from October to November. Read More
The small, keyboardless and fragile $485 computer known as the Apple iPad is so popular that it's apparently becoming necessary to have at least one for every fifty square feet of space.
A new survey from YouGov, reported by the Apple news blog 9to5mac, shows we're entering the era of the double-iPad household. Seventeen percent Read More
