Tag: publishing
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Apple News+ and the Publishing Industry
In March last year, Apple bought the digital magazine service, Texture. Texture’s business model was relatively straightforward – users paid a flat monthly fee of $9.99 for access to around 200 magazines. Texture placed a layer of editorial on top of things, highlighting specific articles that you might not have otherwise discovered. Initially, the business…
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Bookazines
I’m slightly obsessed by bookazines. But first, let me apologise for using that word (also known, equally unattractively, as magbooks). It’s clearly made up by the publishing industry, and so perhaps I need to explain it first. It’s obviously a contraction of two words. Books need no real explanation. They get published; they sit on…
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Things I’m Not Going to Embark on this January
This isn’t a blog about New Year’s resolutions. I’d be a few weeks’ late if it was. But January is an interesting time for another reason – it’s when those curious partwork publications kick off their new runs. You know the sort: often advertised heavily on TV, with cheap first issues (although much more steeply…