CHART OF THE DAY: Why The Newspaper Industry Collapsed. CHART OF THE DAY: iPad Magazine Sales Tank. Want to get the Chart Of The Day a day earlier? Sign up for our Chart of the Day email. Steve Jobs' magic touch isn't spreading to sales of magazine applications for the iPad, John Koblin at WWD reports. As you can see in this chart, iPad sales of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Glamour are all down or flat for the last six months. Over that same stretch, Apple has sold millions more iPads. So what's the problem? For one, as Choire Sicha points out, it makes little sense to pay $3.99 for an iPad magazine when you can get a year's subscription to the print version of the magazine for $8-$10. Another problem, in our opinion: iPad magazines are currently mixed up with all iPad apps. Imagine going into a GameStop and looking for magazines. Apple is reportedly working on a digital newsstand where magazines and newspapers could have a chance to stand out, and set up recurring subscription billing.
Bourse en ligne, actualité des cours de la bourse en ligne avec. CHART OF THE DAY: Kindle Owners Already Wishing They Had An iPad. Barnes & Noble eReader for iPad launches. The Apple iPad launches in the UK this week and US bookselling giant Barnes and Noble has announced its new e-reader app for the device. The question being – is it better than Apple's own iBooks app? Books, newspapers, magazines "BN eReader for iPad users can customize the way they read with professionally designed or completely personalized themes, shop more than one million eBooks, newspapers and magazines in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, and access their personal Barnes & Noble digital library, including most periodicals," reads the press release.
Barnes and Noble also has its own e-book device called the Nook, but the retailer is clearly hoping to expand its digital reading business beyond its own e-reader. Night Light included Perhaps most interestingly, Barnes & Noble's new iPad app supports LendMe for certain titles, so you can loan out favourite titles to your friends. "We've designed the most easy-to-use, highly customizable eReading experience for the iPad.