Aggregate news and magazine app Flipboard pulls stories and information from a large number of sources. USA Today announced this morning that it’s teamed up with Flipboard, making it the first national newspaper to have content featured in the app.
With this new collaboration, you can get the best content from USA Today right in Flipboard, eliminating the need for visiting several different newspaper sites and apps to get the news you want.
In an Adobe press release, it was announced that the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite will allow users of the software suite to publish newspapers and magazines for inclusion in the subscription portion of the Apple App Store.
Adobe goes on to explain that they feel this relationship with the Apple Newsstand will make content generated by their software more discoverable and therefore more profitable which is a benefit most of us can appreciate.
The Financial Times has seen a great deal of success on the iOS platform, with their apps racking up hundreds of thousands of downloads in near-record time. But this has come to an abrupt halt. Because they were unable to reach a compromise with Apple regarding their in-app subscription purchase regulations, their apps have been removed from the App Store.
This change will not affect existing users who have already downloaded the app, but will prohibit anyone further from nabbing it.
Apple’s controversial iTunes subscription model has been running for several weeks now, however several publishers have openly criticized the company for taking a large cut of their direct revenues with its new model.
The Financial Times is the latest major publisher to openly share its frustration with the new iTunes subscription rule.
The financial paper has had a great relationship with Apple for years, but according to its managing director Rob Grimshaw, the company has considered looking for other distribution channels like Android or other platforms if revenue sharing negotiations don’t go well with Apple.
News Corp finally has taken the wraps off of their iPad only news publication, The Daily, after months of rumors. The app’s launch event was held today in New York City where News Corp’s CEO Rupert Murdoch was joined by special guest Eddy Cue, vice president of Apple’s Internet Services group, in unveiling the companies latest publication
The new venture, the first iPad only publication from a major publisher, covers a wide range of topics ranging from news, entertainment, business, technology, sports, opinions and lifestyle. The Daily is, as its name implies, published on a daily basis and is delivered directly to your iPad. The Daily is more than just recycling web content, it integrating several cool interactive iPad features which makes it really shine.
After months of delays, News Corp. and Apple seem finally ready to launch ‘The Daily’, a digital-only daily newspaper for the iPad. For the occasion, a special event will be held at the Guggenheim museum in New-York next Wednesday, with News Corp. officials, as well as Apple’s Eddy Cue, vice president of Internet Services.
The Daily was initially scheduled for a November 2010 launch, but was postponed multiple times due to unforeseen delays related to iTunes and iOS. To deliver content to their readers on a daily basis, and bill them automatically for it, publications such as ‘The Daily’ use a new iTunes feature, designed to allow users to subscribe to regularly published content without having to purchase each issue separately. One big issue though, the feature only works with iOS 4.3, which has not been released yet.
According to Dutch papers on Friday, a number of European newspapers received word from Apple that they will no longer be allowed to offer their paid print subscribers free access to iPad editions in the App Store. The way things are currently setup, newspapers can avoid charging for iPad access when they offer free issues to their print subscribers, thus cutting Apple out of its 30% cut on App Store transactions. Those same newspapers are not pleased with the changes and believe Apple is becoming “too dominant.”
Apple Insider reports the company is believed to be working on an iOS update expected to allow recurring subscriptions, a feature publishers, as well as subscribers, have wanted for some time now. The delayed release of The Daily iPad publication is even said to be because of these subscription changes.
News Corp’s long rumored exclusive iPad only publication The Daily is expected to be announced on January 19, according to a report from Forbes. The iPad only publication will be the first for any major media company and continues News Corp’s strong investment in the burgeoning tablet space.
Last year News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch, said the iPad was a “game changer” for the media industry and rumors quickly began spreading that the company was planning an iPad only publication. The Daily will not have any print or online editions but will instead be exclusively available on the Apple iPad.
The highly anticipated news app ‘The Daily’, built solely for the iPad, will finally be launched soon. According to an All Things D report, the digital newspaper should launch on January 17.
The news giant behind the publication, News Corp., is venturing into new grounds, as unlike most news applications already available for the iPad, The Daily’s staff will be entirely dedicated to writing articles for the iPad app.
Rupert Murdoch has been a big fan of the iPad since the device was announced earlier this year and has even called it a “game changer.” Seems he wasn’t kidding, according to the Guardian UK Murdoch has partnered with Apple to jointly launch a new newspaper publication exclusively for the iPad.
The new newspaper, rumored to be called the Daily, will not have any print or online editions but will instead be exclusively available on the Apple iPad. The project has been underway for several months and the Guardian claims Apple engineers have been working collaboratively with the News Corp team to get the app ready for launch.
Mid-term elections were held last week and we all know the outcomes but we’re still waiting to see if Democrats and Republicans actually fulfill their campaign promises and get the job done. What better way to track the inside scoop in the nation’s capital than with The Washington Post’s new iPad app?
The Washington Post is one of the most respected news sources in the country, renowned for its investigative reporting and award-winning journalism for over 130 years. Readers will keep up with the latest in national news, politics, business, sports, entertainment and more right from your iPad.
The New York Times is taking a new iPad content strategy and has updated their NYT Editors’ Choice iPad app to include full access to all NYT content. The original NYT app provided a limited set of stories, videos and photos selected by editors specifically for the iPad. The updated app will initially be available for free but the NYT expects readers will convert to paying customers early next year thanks to a new subscription model.
According to a story from paidContent, the NYT’s original Editor’s Choice iPad app has been downloaded over 650,000 times and the company has been pleased with the early results. With the rollout of the new app the NYT will not only include access to a larger collection of content but will also include several new features aimed at improving the user experience.
According to a report by the Guardian, business media heavyweight The Financial Times reported that their iPad app has generated over $1.5 million in advertising revenue in only five months. The Financial Times was one of the first publishers to embrace the potential of the iPad as a media device and their FT iPad app has remained one of the top downloaded titles in the Apple App Store.
When the FT app first launched this past May, it offered readers free content sponsored by watch maker Hubolt. Since then, the company has moved to a subscription based service where users are able to download the app for free but must then register at ft.com to gain access to certain content. Since the app launched, The Financial Times has been able to attract more than 400,000 subscribers who have signed up for the service. The FT iPad app is one of the latest elements in the company’s overall digital strategy and iPad owners now make up 10% of all FT digital subscribers.
Apple is finally getting close to announcing its plan to bring newspaper subscriptions to the iPad, according to a report released earlier today by The San Jose Mercury News.
Despite the lack of a well defined subscription service between Apple and publishers such as News Corp. or Time Inc., a myriad of newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal released their own dedicated iPad apps weeks after the launch of the iPad, but so far users were forced to buy issues individually, a rather clunky and expensive way of enjoying their favorite newspapers. The new service would allow subscribers to receive their newspaper issues automatically, without having to buy them individually.
The launch date for the subscriptions service is still unclear, as Apple and publishers haven’t come to a complete agreement just yet. Apple has been driving a hard bargain with regard to the revenue it expects from these subscriptions: no less than 30 percent for the subscriptions sold through its App Store, and about 40 percent of the advertising revenue generated by the newspaper apps (see this article for more details). Most publishing companies are fighting back as Apple’s expectations are too high in their opinion, and have been trying to convince the Cupertino-based company to accept a flat fee rather than a cut of the subscription and advertising revenue. As a result, the San Jose Mercury News stresses that the deal still has a good chance to fail.
Ultimately, if publishing companies buckle and agree with Apple’s terms, newspaper and magazine subscriptions could very well end up costing more than need be, at the expense of iPad users.
If you’re a titan of industry, chances are you’ve read the Financial Times. The Financial Times has long been a must-have newspaper for the global business crowd and it is now available to iPad owners as a free app in the App Store.
The Financial Times has won several awards for its unique and in-depth reporting and their iPad app includes the same great news and analysis. The Financial Times has gone a step further to make the news really come alive with the addition of video and interactive market data where you can track stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities. One of the best new features is the ability to search for news or stock quotes directly within the app. This is a huge time saver if you need to find an article you’ve read before or quickly see if there is any news on a particular company you’re following.
The iPad edition stays true to the printed version right down to pink pages. The Financial Times newspaper pages have been “salmon-pink” since 1893 as a way to distinguish itself from other daily news publications.You can even select from a number of their print editions including the United Kingdom, United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and Middle East editions.
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