Comments on: Forget Google and Bing – Is Apple the real Saviour of the Newspaper?

By: iPad or iSlate, iDon’t care, iWant one says Steve

iPad or iSlate, iDon’t care, iWant one says Steve — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:06:19 +0000

[...] (c’mon, a solar panel?). The combination of Apple, Twitter, and the arrival of a possible savior of old media become so overwhelmingly powerful that even The Wall Street Journal happily posted an article [...]

By: Magnus Nilsson

Magnus Nilsson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:45:24 +0000

Adam, interesting point about the freebook. I’ve noticed though that ebooks on iPhone appstore is getting quite popular also, and are featured in the popular/top lists more frequently.

Did a quick search, and apparently since september there’s more books than any other category of apps released to the appstore http://blog.flurry.com/bid/27796/Flurry-Smartphone-Industry-Pulse-October-2009 And even Jamie Oliver is listed (although not a plain book, but with some “multimedia” content to boot) with a cookbook as top paid app #38 in UK right now

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:09:38 +0000

I think the UI will be really important in this transition, and perhaps the Microsoft Courier (http://bit.ly/kl8gg) will be the answer.

But I think the eBook uptake is mostly (fre)ebooks at the moment (see http://www.gutenberg.org/), and I can’t see how information such as news will ever be ‘paid’ for. BUT it will be nice to see Murdoch fail again.

Let the information be free!

By: Magnus Nilsson

Magnus Nilsson — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:43:34 +0000

Thanks Matt, I need to have a look at that Stanza app.

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:32:44 +0000

On the mark Magnus. Read a very interesting article in The Economist “The World in 2010″ Edition on how e-readers can save newspapers. I don’t even think we’ll need an Apple tablet – not pocket friendly. Apps like Stanza are changing the way we consume content – which is a very good thing.