Interesting that, just as Apple gets its corporate head around iPad magazines and announces the Newsstand with iOS5, HP is launching a digital magazine along with it TouchPad tablet.
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Another consumer company is joining John Lewis and P&G in launching a digital magazine for its customers. Jewellery brand Pandora hopes to reach the 1.6 million members of its customer club with an interactive publication.
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What proportion of the mobile magazine audience is consuming media made by people thethered to deskbound broadband connections configured long before the iPad or Smartphones were conceived?
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The first week’s coverage of Apple’s iOS5 and how it might impact magazine publishers raised as many questions as it answered. The confusion seems to have been exacerbated by the fact that the Newsstand App doesn’t work in the first iOS5 beta. However, assuming Apple irons out all the wrinkles, iOS5, iCloud and Newsstand could fix some very real problems for magazines on the iPad.
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As always, coverage of Apple’s iOS5 announcement has been off the scale. iOS5 brings a whole bunch of shiny new features… Whatever! Right now I’m more interested in what the Newsstand will mean for digital magazine publishers.
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Faber & Faber is dragging poetry into the 21st century with an iPad version of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. This is nothing to do with digital magazines, but it was too pretentious a headline to pass up (Yeah, I know it’s Yeats not Eliot).
I actually think the centre will hold for Faber on this; it’s a brilliant idea, taking full advantage of iPad functionality to give published poetry back it’s voice. The app features a new filmed performance of the poem by Fiona Shaw, readings by Eliot and Ted Hughes and video perspectives from, among others Seamus Heaney. Not bad for £7.99
I can’t wait for someone to get a hold of Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas. Meanwhile, here’s T.S. Eliot reading The Burial of the Dead from The Waste Land.
It has been reported that officers from the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) sabotaged a jihadist digital magazine in June 2010. The attack targeted the first issue of Inspire, an al-Qaeda-sponsored English-language magazine featuring anti-Western propaganda, and allegedly instructions to create bombs.
The magazine was released to the jihadist community online, but everything past the first page was corrupted… by a cupcake recipe.
British intelligence used cupcake recipes to ruin al-Qaida website | UK news | The Guardian.
