iPad, Print-Media and Publishing – the iSubscribe model
The iPad has been talked about from creatives to pundits and everyone in between the last week now. Google has even appeared to enter the tablet market. This video brings up a review for publishers and what it might mean for print-media and printers. They bring up the question on everyone’s mind; how will a daily newspaper be sold and downloaded on the Apple iPad? (More below)
Apple iPad to boast print media industry: IBNLive.com > Videos
When have you ever know Steve Jobs to just place his hands at his side and accept failure? Well, I guess he does not or at least rarely from what we hear. This in mind, the fact that there was no iMag store or iSubscribe like iTunes app where readers can easily get the latest edition of the NY Times or TIME Magazine with a simple click leaves me with a suspicion.
That is, between now and then (Then being the day the iPad is actually in stores.), do not be surprised to be surprised. I would not be the least bit shocked if Apple comes out with a subscription model or iTunes for newspaper and magazine publishers that will rock the multi-tasking Google Android tablet device, quietly slipped out in typical GOOG fashion…
Apple and Adobe; no love loss indeed… and now you can add Google officially to that group of Apple’s, no pun intended. The market is heating up and fast for these media devices and although the iPad appears to have an exciting start, quiet Google is not one to be forgotten, nor of course is Amazon and it’s successful eReader Kindle…
Looks like publisher conversion tools for DTP file format viewing are not going anywhere fast…
