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Google Magazines opens its pages to UK readers

Chris Davies, Dec 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google Magazines has opened its doors to the UK Play store, turning your Nexus 7 or other Android device into the digital equivalent of the table in the dentist's waiting room. Over a hundred titles are available at launch, Google UK says, including Glamour, Hello!, Men's Fitness, and Total Film, and a single purchase can be synchronized across all of the devices logged into the same Play account. Read The Full Story

Yahoo and NBC Sports announce partnership

Shane McGlaun, Dec 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Yahoo and NBC Sports have announced that they will be teaming up on sports reporting, broadcasts, and news coverage. The two companies have a goal of creating the largest dedicated sports news platforms in the US. According to the announcement, Yahoo Sports will combine its "premium sports news and events coverage" with the NBC Sports Groups digital brand and TV promotion and integration. Read The Full Story

ESRB simplifies digital rating system

Eric Abent, Oct 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Electronic Software Ratings Board, as many of you already know, is the organization that assigns age-based ratings for video games here in the United States. At the moment, only a fraction of games get rated since the sheer number of digital games makes rating each and every one of them a seemingly insurmountable challenge. Today, the ESRB announced that it has made the process of rating digital games a whole lot easier for the itself and developers alike. Read The Full Story

Newsweek to halt print edition, go all digital

Craig Lloyd, Oct 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Physical media has long been in a battle for its life, and this includes print publications. We've already seen other newspapers and magazine go the all-digital route, but today Newsweek announced that it's ending its print edition and will be going on digital starting in 2013. The publication also said that they could be facing job cuts in the process. Read The Full Story

The CD turns 30 today

Craig Lloyd, Oct 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Exactly 30 years ago, the first commercially-released CD album hit store shelves. On October 1, 1982, Billy Joel's sixth studio album, 52nd Street, was re-released to the public. The album was originally launched in 1978, but it was selected for re-launch on the all-new digital compact disc to coincide with the release of the first CD player, the Sony CDP-101. Read The Full Story

Nook heads to UK to convert e-reading nation

Chris Burns, Aug 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

It's time for Barnes and Noble to make an effort to cross the sea as their Nook lineup is ready and willing to spread across the entirety of the UK this summer. The company has been working with a variety of UK retailers and has struck a collection of deals to stock several models of the Nook e-reader tablet lineup this Fall. Starting in mid-October the Nook Simple Touch as well as the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight will be popping up both online and in physical shops across the nation. Read The Full Story

Barnes & Noble to launch new devices in the UK this fall

Shane McGlaun, Aug 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble has announced that it will be bringing its award-winning Nook line of eReaders and digital content to the UK starting this fall. The devices and content will be available in the United Kingdom through a new online storefront located at nook.com.uk. Expansion into the UK marks the first time Barnes & Noble has moved out of the US. Read The Full Story

Def Leppard re-recording entire catalog while originals freeze

Chris Burns, Jul 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Band members of the legendary metal band Def Leppard have announced that they've reached an impasse with their record label and will be freezing sales of all original recordings of their music. What they've done instead of accepting an unfair amount of royalties, so they say, they've decided to record what are effectively covers of all their original songs that'll then be pushed to iTunes et all in a much more direct way that'll have them cashing in as much as possible. One would hope that they'll do a bit better than KISS did with their latest double-album (one of which was all covers of old songs too) Sonic Boom. Read The Full Story

Next Issue Media brings all you can read magazines to tablet users

Shane McGlaun, Apr 4th 2012 Discuss [8]

The world of digital media has proven that streaming video and digital books are winning propositions for publishers and content makers. The average tablet user has likely purchased multiple books, yet few people are consuming digital periodicals such as magazines and newspapers. For most publications, digital subscriptions make up a scant 1% or so of all subscriptions. Read The Full Story

Apple generates $70K daily from Newsstand

Shane McGlaun, Mar 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple proved there was a huge market for apps years ago when it launched the App Store and today just about every major OS out there has its own version. More recently, Apple launched its digital newsstand app to allow iPad users to download digital editions of newspapers and magazines. If you wondered how well sales are doing for digital magazines and newspapers for Apple, new details have landed. Read The Full Story

Shutterfly plunks down $23.8M for Kodak Gallery photo sharing platform

Shane McGlaun, Mar 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Kodak was once a photography giant in the days of film and photo processing. Today, the majority of the world has moved beyond film to digital photographs rendering much of Kodak's offerings obsolete. Kodak has filed bankruptcy and is selling off assets to pay creditors. Shutterfly has stepped up and is plunking down $23.8 million to buy Kodak's online photo sharing platform called Kodak Gallery. Read The Full Story

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