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Comments on: Magazines go online in iTunes-esque move

Good idea... 

Posted Thursday 27th September 2007 10:40 GMT

... but a bit difficult to read in the bath. Or whilst I'm eating my tea...

Range of products 

Posted Thursday 27th September 2007 10:56 GMT

I wonder if they'll sell Linux Magazine......

;)

And so it begins... 

Posted Thursday 27th September 2007 12:29 GMT

... print on demand publishing is growing, this will snowball, although migration to this sort of distribution would kill the porn mag industry, surely (hence probably why they haven't pioneered this in the first place).

Regional press 

Posted Thursday 27th September 2007 14:01 GMT

Our local; newspaper is next to useless, and I've oft pondered the logistics of setting up a PDF only version of a local rag, similar to a new F! magazine that is electronic format only.

Good! 

Posted Thursday 27th September 2007 14:55 GMT

An interesting development. One would hope papers could come up with some incentive ideas too, as for example sell a 2-year subscription along with a well subsidized iRex iLiad.

Anyone heard of Zinio? 

Posted Thursday 27th September 2007 18:29 GMT

There already is a delivery system for this type of content and it's pretty good! http://www.zinio.com.

Asa

File Sharing Part 2 

Posted Friday 28th September 2007 07:35 GMT

Copy, anyone?

pdf lol wtf 

Posted Friday 28th September 2007 08:50 GMT

Yes, that's right, the problem with magazines is you can't get them in pdf!!!!! LOL!!! Good luck with this business plan.

shocking statistics 

Posted Saturday 6th October 2007 02:54 GMT

"83 per cent of readers reading downloaded magazines online have never purchased a printed copy."

Who are these customers that have never purchased a magazine in print? Aliens from the planet Xenon?

Or is that people tend not to buy electronic copies of magazines they already have on paper, a startling revelation?

(Yes, I know that they mean that 83 per cent of readers download issues of magazines they've never bought in print, but the original's still a very strange way of saying it.)

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