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NYT conflicted over pricing for iPad; others hesitant to even get on board
Keeping an eye on the upcoming release of the iPad and its impact on newspapers, we get this rumored debate within the New York Times.
On one side, a Times source explains, you have print circulation, which thinks it should control the iPad since it’s just another way to distribute the paper. They’d like to charge [...]
Posted on: Feb 16, 2010, Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
Tom Racine and me opine about the iPad and comics
This week’s Tall Tale Features tackle’s the iPad’s impact on comics.
Hey, everyone else is talking about it, so why fight it? Tall Tale Radio takes on Steve Jobs and the iPad! Will it change the business of print as we know it? Will it impact cartoonists everywhere? Is it a glorified iPod? And most [...]
Posted on: Feb 10, 2010, Section: Comic Books, Daily Cartoonist, Podcasts, Technology, web comics, Comments: 7 Comments
Textbooks signed for iPad, Apple courts newspapers
CNET is reporting that Apple has signed textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson to port their textbooks to upcoming iPad.
Announced on Wednesday, the agreements were made with ScrollMotion, a company that develops the iPhone e-reader app Iceberg Reader and works with publishers to digitize their books for the mobile [...]
Posted on: Feb 5, 2010, Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
Live video and tweet coverage of Apple Special Event
Below is an unofficial live video stream of the event. Below the video is liveTweet coverage via ArsTechnica. Tweets should auto update every 10 seconds below.
Posted on: Jan 27, 2010, Section: Technology, Comments: 4 Comments
Live Apple Tablet coverage here tomorrow morning (UPDATED)
Due to the potential impact on the print industry (at least the interest in it by those in print and web), I will enable a LIVE stream of the Apple “Jesus Tablet” announcements here on the site. Please come by and offer your impressions as it rolls out to the industry.
UPDATE: The McGraw Hill CEO [...]
Posted on: Jan 26, 2010, Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 34 Comments
WSJ: Apple Sees New Money in Old Media
There have been rumors ad nausea about the supposed tablet that Apple will unveil next week. While fun, I have not posted any here because I felt they were too unsubstantiated. I make an exception for the Wall Street Journal – which tends to be the mainstream media outlet of choice for Apple to intentionally [...]
Posted on: Jan 21, 2010, Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 10 Comments
Scott Kurtz to speak at Macworld
The Macworld website has posted news that PvP creator Scott Kurtz will speak at this year’s Macworld along with Chicago Sun-Times and Macworld columnist Andy Ihnatko. The discussion description:
or the past century, succeeding as a writer or artist in the newspaper business required submitting work to syndicates and editors. Chances of success for slim, and [...]
Posted on: Dec 23, 2009, Section: Gatherings, Speaking Engagements, Technology, web comics, Comments: 333 Comments
RingTales creates Dilbert, New Yorker mobile app
RingTales and Metranome have partnered to release the first ever animated Dilbert and New Yorker “Cartoon a Day” integrated calendar for BlackBerry smart phones. The downloadable calendars combine the utility of a daily agenda with a daily animated New Yorker or Dilbert cartoons. The app also integrates with the native calendar application on the BlackBerry [...]
Posted on: Dec 10, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Technology, mobile, Comments: 0 Comments
Would an Apple tablet boost digital comics?
There has been rumors for several months (if not years) that Apple, Inc will release a tablet computer. While the rumor swirls, Chicago Sun-Times technology writer Andy Ihnatko points to certain “evidences” that the rumor might be true and that such a tablet would be a boon for digital comics.
Someone certainly has to. Digital [...]
Posted on: Oct 27, 2009, Section: Comic Books, Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 11 Comments
Digital Comics Store for PSP Coming in December
Digital Comics Store for PSP Coming in December
This December, you will be able to purchase and download from over 1000 digital comics on PlayStation Store (on the PSP and Media Go). We’ve partnered with one of the leading comic publishers, Marvel Entertainment, to bring you the biggest names in comics, including Spider-Man, X-Men and the [...]
Posted on: Aug 23, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 3 Comments
Personalize your iGoogle page with comic themes
Google’s personal homepage feature, “iGoogle,” now allows you to select from 50 comic themes which include several comic book characters, syndicated comics and webcomics. Among the syndicated features themes include, Peanuts, Dilbert, Pearls Before Swine, Nancy, Garfield, Ziggy, Mutts, Popeye and Krazy & Ignatz (Krazy Kat).
To use the theme, you’ll need a google account [...]
Posted on: Aug 3, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 2 Comments
TechCrunch Reports on Rise of New Media
The TechCrunch website just posted two articles with direct relevance to the ongoing discussions here at TDC about the demise of old media and the potential for webcomics.
The first, AOL Newsroom Now Has (Wow) 1,500 Writers reports on just that, the growth of AOL’s reporting capability. Most of those writers were gained from old media [...]
Posted on: Jul 30, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Technology, web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
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