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GQ magazine launches iPad version in April

Conde Nast is launching tablet versions of it’s top magazines, starting next month with GQ.  Vanity Fair and Wired will follow in June, while The New Yorker and Glamour will launch next summer.  The New York Times reports the publisher is testing different prices, ads, and other digital approaches over the next six months, to learn [...]

iPad turf war inside the New York Times

Gawker reports on the dispute that could define the digital future of the New York Times.  Internal factions are fighting over who will control the iPad app under the deal with Apple.  The print circulation people (“Paper First!”) consider the iPad just another way to distribute the newspaper.   They want to protect the print edition by [...]

Magazine sales take a nosedive

Magazine sales took a nosedive at the newsstand…down 9% overall in the 2nd half of last year.  Newsweek, Time and W  lost 35-40%.   Silicon Alley’s Business Insider says publishers are looking at the iPad and other tablets to get them into the big online newsstands so they can recover these losses.   The story comes with a nifty [...]