iTunes for print? Selling the story instead of the magazineOnline aggregator Maggwire.com is planning “to do for magazines what iTunes did for music”, by selling “premium” magazine articles for a few bucks online. It may save the companies, but could it kill off the printed versions in the process?
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Creating an iTunes for print
Magazine publishers are worried Apple’s upcoming tablet computer could do to their industry what the iPod did to music, taking away their control over the product and cutting into their profits. Can the industry band together to create a united “shop-front” as its content goes digital?
ACMA iTunes and the failure of net filtering
The underlying Australian internet censorship process is unworkable, and always will be. Opponents of the filter are busy proving it, with complaints about iTunes selling MA15+ films without requiring age verification.
Why the old media dinosaurs aren’t extinct yet
The internet sneered and jeered at Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that News Corp will start charging for online news: “We won’t pay”. But the success of Apple’s iTunes and App store proves they will pay, says Leslie Nassar. Maybe the old man isn’t such a dinosaur after all…
From social to solo: the evolving music experience
Growing up, music was a social experience. You got an album, went to someone’s house, and anywhere between two and twenty people would cram into someone’s bedroom to listen. What happens now? asks Tim Dunlop.
Resurrecting the album on iTunes
Apple is working with four record company heavyweights — Sony, Universal, EMI and Warner — to encourage full album digital sales. Albums will be bundled with an interactive booklet, sleeve notes and more.
Why bagging The Chaser is bad policy
While the pollies and the tabloids have been going nuts over the ABC Chaser team’s celebrity obituary song, it seems the voters (or at least the viewers) couldn’t give a dead rat’s ars-hole, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Crikey competition: what would you pay for your Top 5 albums?
Radiohead has told fans they can pay what they want to download their latest album, In Rainbows. Inspired by the gesture, we asked Crikey readers to tell us five of their favourite albums — and what they’d pay for them now. (Our Top 5 entrants will win $25 iTunes vouchers).
Media briefs and TV ratings
Red Kez’s blues … Murdoch turns his gaze to the “Gray Lady” … More welfare for poor TV networksSeven kills the Wednesday night movie … It’s a crime … Sideshow side-swiped, Parko parked … More evidence of Foxtel’s double-speak on ratings … Last night’s TV ratings.
FaceBook: with friends like these, who need friends?
Wow, when things hit critical mass these days, they really do it bigtime. Halfway in and there doesn’t seem much doubt that 2007 is going to be the year of Facebook.
Election ‘07: Reading between the polls
Subscribe to Crikey and you read on Friday that the latest Morgan Poll has the ALP two party preferred vote at 58.5 to 41.5% for the Coalition; a drop of 0.5% for the ALP since the last Morgan telephone poll.
Apple v Apple
Is Apple’s iTunes music store becoming the most powerful retailer in the history of the world?
