OUTSIDE’S GO EXPANDS FREQUENCY WITH THE ADDITION OF TWO EXCLUSIVELY-DIGITAL EDITIONS POWERED BY ZINIO
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Outside’s Go just announced this morning that it is creating two digital-only digital editions and boosting its overall circulation to four annual issues. This represents a shift in how our technology is being used by major publishers—we’re pretty excited about what this means for the future of digital publishing. And so are movers and shakers [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2009 | leave a comment | trackback
THE INDIE GAME MAG IS NOW AVAILABLE ON ZINIO
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The Indie Game Magazine is now available on Zinio, The World’s #1 Digital Newsstand. An online subscription gets you 6 issues of IGM on Zinio.com for the low price of $19.95. You can learn more about IGM and order a subscription by visiting www.indiegamemag.com.
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Posted on January 13th, 2009 | leave a comment | trackback
20 Reasons Why 2009 Will Be The Year of the Ebook
via Gutenberg.com Thanks, Bob Sacks, for this story! According to a California State Board of Education study, the average weight of a high school student’s backpack is 20 pounds and contains about 6 textbooks. In comparison, the average weight of an ebook reader, capable of holding hundreds of books and instantly accessing hundreds of thousands more, is [...]Is The Library A Museum?
Via the San Francisco Chronicle Are end times near for books and magazines? I still enjoy words on paper, but then I’m over the magical, all-digital age of 30. Click Here to read the rest of this story.The Latest Buzz for Zinio’s Digital Textbooks
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College papers and bloggers alike are getting excited to gear up for the spring semester with Zinio’s digital textbooks. Check out what they’re saying:
CollegeNews.com
Marietta College’s “Writing on the Mall”
Kill Jill Goes to College
USC’s Daily Trojan
Posted on January 6th, 2009 | leave a comment | trackback
2008: The Year in Magazines (and Media)
Via Folio By Dylan Stableford 12/22/2008 In November, after yet another week that featured a smattering of layoffs, cutbacks and magazine closings, the New York Observer ran a piece entitled “Another Bullsh*t Week in Suck Industry.” It was that kind of year. It seemed that no matter what magazine publishers did to try and innovate (Esquire’s e-ink cover, [...]Print is Dead. Long Live Print.
Via PCMag.com How publishing-on-demand will transform the publishing industry. by Dan Costa Buzz up!on Yahoo! A few weeks ago PC Magazine ceased publishing its print magazine, after 27 years of covering the technology industry. These days it simply doesn’t make economic or environmental sense for us to print a magazine, load it on trucks, and send it across the [...]Will Digital Subscriptions Save the Print Industry?
Very interesting article from a British publication that poses the question Zinio has been hoping to answer all along! Via EveryDayPrint.Co.UK The troubled print industry is facing increasingly lower ad revenues and diminishing subscriptions as more people are going online to get information personalized and quicker. One solution may lie in Zinio.com, a website that allows digital subscriptions of [...]‘Digital Influencers’ Get Info from Magazines, TV First
Via AdAge By Michael Bush Published: December 15, 2008 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Those all-important “digital influencers” actually get their information from magazines, newspapers, TV and radio. That’s according to an MS&L survey whose results will be released tomorrow. The study, developed by MS&L’s influencer-marketing unit IM, reveals that some 84% of digital influencers go online to find out [...]
Is Print Dead?
Via MagRaker With financial bailouts being handed out to mega-banking institutions and now Detroit automakers, it seems the publishing industry could be in need of the most governmental assistance. The troubled industry is suffering increasingly lower ad revenues and diminishing subscriptions, as more people are turning online to get information personalized and quicker. Print has had [...]