Yahoo has launched Livestand, the digital newsstand for publications. The platform offers advertisers a dynamic digital media ads – Yahoo Living Ads.

Yahoo has launched Livestand, the digital newsstand for publications. The platform offers advertisers a dynamic digital media ads – Yahoo Living Ads.

Digital magazine newsstand are already giving us the feel and simplicity of accessing new magazines online or via app store channels. This process will continue to evolve as existing digital publishing vendors provides newsstand stores for accessing free and paid mobile and tablet magazine editions. Read more »
Adobe invites designers to register for the prerelease program.
As a participant in the Digital Publishing Suite prerelease program you will receive frequent updates to the Digital Publishing Suite and the ability to publish and sell branded commercial applications on the Apple App Store. By joining the prerelease program you can stay up-to-date on this exciting digital publishing solution for tablet devices. Read more »
We recently posted about magazine website CMS software. Here’s a summary and some point on the key Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal CMS open source tools that can be used by magazine publishers.
Many of the magazine publisher CMS (content management systems) we select today are based on open source publisher web cms software. WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal open source magazine CMS software solutions have reached a level of publishing industry adoption that it’s not hard to find one of these platfoms in every magazine niche. While open source web content management systems contain “no cost” for the CMS software itself, it’s important to understand that there are still costs associated with the planning, design, development, and deployment of OS powered magazine websites. Open source solutions must also be managed, hosted and maintained. Read more »
Magazine tablet editions wil be in high demand during the next few years. Here’s a nice resources to stay on top of the top tablet devices that are worth considering for your magazine app and magazine tablet editions.
2010 was supposed to be the Year of the Tablet. That did not really happen — the flood of product was reduced to a trickle, as many manufacturers awaited a more tablet-friendly operating system from Google. So, once more, with feeling: 2011 will be the Year of the Tablet. Several new models have either been released, or are in a very advanced state of preview. This interactive guide can help sort through the latest offerings. Use the checkbox at the top of each listing to select it for comparison. And check back frequently — this page will be updated as new information or models are released.
Magazine advertising drives our industry. The creativity of magazine ads and their delivery to the right audience is what makes the magazine such a great advertising channel.
And with many magazine digital and tablet editions in store for this year, we can only image what the next year of interactive advertising may bring to the magazine publishing industry.
MPA Announces the Best Magazine Advertising - Campaigns of the Year
via Magazine Publishers of America – Outstanding Magazine Ads – 2010 Kelly Awards Finalists.
I like the name. The Slate sounds good too. But it’s just what all the “book and newsprint” e-readers are missing that has me scratching my head. Sure, digital magazine editions are a bit hard to curl up with or throw into a day bag but they do present color and multimedia.
Ask any iPhone user and they will tell you that they are now able to easily surf browser versions of web pages with their phone. Give me a little larger screen and typing on a glass keyboard might actually be a reality. A virtual drive is about the only other missing link and I’d be connected 24-7. Now I did try the mini for a while as an at home casual workstation but the small keyboard and limited features pushed me to either the faster iPhone or back to the laptop for getting things done. And yes, in many ways, the iPhone could be a faster tool for social media management.
Back to the Skiff. I just don’t know how brands that are set to innovate on a quarterly basis will keep up with Apple or even the tablet competitors which we can expect to come on fast and strong.
The Skiff Reader will try to distinguish itself from the Kindle, nook, Sony eReader, QUE and other e-ink devices with size and portability. The 9 x 11-inch unit will hold an 11.5-inch (measured diagonally) display, which does out-size the large Kindle DX and the Plastic Logic QUE
I welcome the eReader innovations. Please remember the magazines if you are creating the next news and information reader. The current readers and 16 shades of gray just don’t support the colorful and dynamic capabilities that are part of the publisher upgrade plan this year.
I received my Google Wave invite from a new twitter pal (thanks again Alice @aliceinthewater http://twitter.com/Davorado/status/5576326179) and can see that it’s probably going to help bridge people to a new method of communicating. Not that I think it will eliminate email the way we know it today. At least not for another 5 years. But, it strongly supports the social networking models, streams, and posting that we are growing familiar with in most social platforms.
It will be very interesting to see how the Wave is received and what new products (widgets) are created to add more value to the Google platform. I can already see that I’ll use it for anything internal for my company to eliminate the email mess. Maybe this process will force in some outside participants to adopt the tool in a similar way that critical mass fueled the adoption of the fax machine.
I hope!
It does not surprise me that print media (and even print mail) will increase in price. We can only hope for enhancements in value and that the high cost print media that reach our porch or mailbok will impove in quality.
The NY Times on my front proch should not contain any section I “never” read. It should be colorful and have simple icons to show me where to go online for more engagement.
“Dear Home Delivery Subscriber,
“Effective Monday, June 1, there will be an increase in the price of the home delivery of The Times…We regret having to raise rates at this time of financial challenge for so many cross the nation. It is, however, one of a number of steps we must take in order to secure the core qualities that define The Times and make it so highly valued buy the most discerning readers.”
via The NY Times Gambles by Raising Prices | BNET Media Blog | BNET.
Times are changing. We need value change too!