There is something strange about the idea of publishers’ attempts to resist the e-book price-setting power of Amazon being investigated by the Connecticut attorney-general.
Given Amazon’s dominance of e-books through its Kindle device and software (it claimed this week to have 80 per cent...
Posted to
Comment
on 08-05-2010
Filed under: Media, Apple, Amazon, e-books
The iPad and other tablet computers may be the future (or at least part of it) for US magazine publishers, but it is making them confront an awkward reality - they have in effect been giving away their product for years.
The US magazine practice of offering extremely cheap subscriptions - often working...
Posted to
Comment
on 08-02-2010
Filed under: Media, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast
The flurry of activity around Playboy Enterprises, owner of the eponymous magazine, illustrates the squeeze on men’s magazines and pornography in the internet era.
It also shows that Playboy is a media brand that is well past its prime.
Hugh Hefner, whose bid to take Playboy private is being challenged...
Posted to
Comment
on 07-12-2010
Filed under: Media, Hugh Hefnet, Playboy
There are few equivalents in business of red carpet reporting - the showbiz practice of standing by the carpet at awards ceremonies and grabbing words as the celebrities walk by. The Sun Valley media and technology summit, however, is just such an event.
Never having been there (although I did once go...
Posted to
Comment
on 07-07-2010
Filed under: Media, eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch, Sun Valley