Monthly Archives: February 2012

mediaIDEAS onPoint: % of all Android Tablet Apps Used on Kindle Fire

This mediaIDEAS onPoint presents the growth of usage on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Data from Flurry shows that Kindle Fire apps represented 3% of all Android tablet app usage (or app sessions) in November 2011 but grew drastically to 36% of … Continue reading

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Seth Godin Asks: Who decides what gets sold in the bookstore?

["There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one." - Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)] Seth Godin Asks: Who decides what gets sold in the bookstore? By Seth Godin We can … Continue reading

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Deal Sites Offer Dose of Growth for Magazine Circulation

["Daily-Deal Sites Offer Dose of Growth for Magazine Circulation Responses to Subscription Offers on Groupon, LivingSocial and Fab.com Have Been Positive, but Will Strong Renewal Rates Follow? " - By: Rupal Parekh] For the past two years, there’s been a … Continue reading

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Five Common Sense Strategies for New Magazine Media Success . . .

["Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated … Continue reading

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Hearst Expects its Revenue to be Nearly Split Between Print and

["BoSacks Speaks Out: Bravo to Hearst and the people who are running that corporation. They will be a publishing player in the future, while some others just look on with envy. "Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who … Continue reading

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BoSacks Speaks Out: Why Settle For CPMs When Data Drives Long-Term

["BoSacks Speaks Out: For those science fiction fans out there, I am asking if you, too, see a connection between the Foundation series of books by Isaac Asimov and our new abilities in media metrics to map "the tsunami of … Continue reading

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mediaIDEAS onPoint: Paper Consumption by US Magazine and Book Publishers 2010-2020

This mediaIDEAS onPoint presents paper consumption forecasts for US magazine and book publishers. Data from the Pulp and Printing Paper Forecast 2010-2020: The Impact of Digital Media and E-reading Platforms on Paper Demand report shows that paper consumption by 2020 … Continue reading

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mediaIDEAS onPoint: December 2011 US App Downloads

This mediaIDEAS onPoint compares app downloads in the United States across e-deading device platforms for December 2011. Recent data from Xyologic shows that users downloaded nearly 900 thousand apps last month on the iPhone, the iPad, Android devices, and Windows … Continue reading

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Magazine publishers going for slice of e-commerce pie / Amazon Pulls

["'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand when we with daisies lie, that commerce will continue, and trades as briskly fly" - Emily Dickinson (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)] Magazine publishers going for … Continue reading

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When Your Content Needs a Leader, Hire a Chief Content Officer

["Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by … Continue reading

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