CommuniCrossings Software for Mobile Learning and Communication

• "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." ~Jerry Seinfeld
• "Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them." ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"

Trends

• Another Big Newspaper Says Digital Ads Shrank Last Quarter Washington Post; 5/4/2012
• Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? sports and finance; Narrative Science; 4/24/2012
• Death knell hasn't tolled newspapers transforming; whoneedsnewspapers.org; Varble; 4/15/2012
• Newspapers Pollute Less On E-Readers and Tablets Adopting e-readers could reduce GHG emissions from publishing and distributing newspapers by 74 percent; using tablet computers could result in a 63 percent reduction; RAND [.pdf]; 4/2012
• A Newspaper, and a Legacy, Reordered (Washington Post); 2/12/2012
• Could e-books be a game-changer for 2012 Presidential candidates? (faster, targeted, personalized); 11/25/2011
• The Book World Is Changing: Mark Cuban Creates A Best Seller Out Of Some Blog Posts 12/03/2011
• British Library newspaper archive puts 300 years of history online 11/29/2011
• Turning the Page: SOU newspaper becomes online-only; The Siskiyou 11/21/2011
• The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story 11/18/2011
• Newspapers’ Digital Apostle (MediaNews' John Patton preparing for a world without print); 11/14/2011
• HP Wants You to Print Magazines with Your Home Printer So You Can Waste More Paper and Buy More Ink 10/12/2011
• One Way To Boost Newspapes Sales? Write A Story That Someone Will Try To Hide By Buying Up All The Copies 10/03/2011
• In E-Books, Publishers Have Rivals: News Sites 9/19/2011
• The New York Times imagines the kitchen table of the future 8/2011
• Newspapers and social media: Still mostly doing it wrong 7/1/2011
• What does the journalism of the future look like? 6/13/2011
• USA Today rewrites strategy to cope with Internet 3/23/2011
• End Times: Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism? Atlantic article about NYT; 1/2009

Subscriptions, Paywalls

• Wikipedia: paywall
• New York Times sees higher circulation numbers, digital paywall smiles knowingly 5/1/2012
• Wall Street Journal remains No. 1 US newspaper more readers purchased digital subscriptions; 5/1/2012
• A Buffet of Magazines on a Tablet Next Issue app; $10/month for 27 magazines; 4/12/2012
• Farewell, App Store? Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5 more social than FlipBoard; 4/11/2012
• Finally, a Reason to Read Magazines on a Tablet "Netflix for Magazines"; 4/3/2012
• Digital magazine sales double in 2011; print still dominates 3/29/2012
• NY Times Cuts Number Of Free Web Articles To 10/Month 3/20/2012
• The Search for a New Business Model: How Newspapers are Faring Trying to Build Digital Revenue; 3/5/2012
• Dear Big Newspapers: Keep Putting Up Silly Paywalls And Clear The Internet Field For Us 'Newcomers' (Gannett; LA Times); 3/2/2012
• WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free 2/25/2012
• Newsstand in iOS 5 Fueling Growth of New Magazine Subscriptions 12/23/2011
• A Shopper’s Companion, Still Going Strong (after 75 years, Consumer Reports get more revenue from digital subscriptions than from print -- without losing print subscribers); 12/11/2011
• Hearst's Carey talks digital (400,000 e-subscriptions); 12/1/2011
• How Google is Quietly Experimenting in New Ways for Readers to Access Publishers' Content ("survey wall"); 10/31/2011
• Newsstand app brings Condé Nast 268% boom in subscription sales on iPad 10/26/2011
• New York Times Paywall Helps it Turn a Profit (Q3 2011) 10/20/2011
• Planning a paywall? Maybe you should sell some e-books instead 10/11/2011
• Why Fortune’s Apple Story is AWOL From The Web – And Why You Can Buy It On Amazon 5/9/2011
• How to Work Around the New York Times’ 20-Article-per-Month Paywall 3/28/2011
• The Easiest Way to Cheat the New York Times Paywall Still Works3/28/2011
  
• Google's First Click Free program

Tablets, Mobile

• Mad Magazine: Alfred E. Newman Lands on the iPad 4/2/2012
• How Licensing and Hardware Bottlenecks Confound Magazine Text on the iPad 4/2/2012
• Yahoo Challenges Apple with a Cocktail of Mobile Publishing Tools (Livestand); 1/26/2012
• Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free 1/9/2012
• Zite (builds magazine with articles from around the Web); 1/5/2012
• Google Currents: Publishing Platform to Marry Magazines and Mobile 12/8/2011
• All the news that is fit for your smartphone or tablet (News360, Instpaper, PulseNews, Zinio, Flipboard); 11/26/2011
• Study: 46% of iPad, e-reader owners reading more magazines 11/21/2011
• Apple’s Newsstand a Huge Success for Digital Publishers 10/26/2011
• Pew: How People Use Tablets and What It Means for the Future of News 10/25/2011
• Apple’s Newsstand: Wait for 2.0 10/24/2011
• Up close with iOS 5: Newsstand; iOS 5’s Newsstand Is More Awesome than You Think 10/13/2011
• A (paper) Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work (for 1 yr old) [video; 1:25]; 10/6/2011
• Philadelphia papers court subscribers with $99 Android tablet 9/12/2011
• Been there, done that: Private label newspaper tablets make no sense 8/9/2011
• For New Yorker on iPad, Words Are the Thing 8/1/2011
• How a news junkie uses the iPad 6/14/2011
• Pulp Brings the Experience of Reading a Newspaper to RSS Feeds on Your iPad (and Mac) 6/13/2011
• Apple tries to tighten its grip on media with Newsstand 6/6/2011
• Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush to iPad Is 'Sheer Insanity and Insecurity and Fear' 5/30/2011
• Will iPad & Tablets Be Our Sunday Paper? 4/10/2011
• Wall Street Journal offering single issue downloads for the iPad 3/23/2011
• iPad vs. Newspaper, Fly-Swatting Edition 9/10/2010

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