Tag archive: Hearst

Earlier this week, The Boston Globe rolled out a brand new version of its website coded in HTML5 and operating behind a premium paywall. Ideally designed to cut out Apple's 30 percent cut for revenue generated with a Boston Globe app on the iPad, users can simply so to the Web address in Safari and type in login information to access articles on the site. The newspaper also operates a free site for news junkies at Boston.com, but the… Read More

The New Yorker is finally on its way to the iPad via subscription – and it’s not alone. Power publisher Condè Nast announced it will also introduce Wired, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, Allure, Self, and GQ subscriptions to the App Store by the end of the month. In a blog post, The New Yorker explained that while its original iPad app was well-received, its customers wanted more. “They wanted to subscribe to the magazine on the iPad or to… Read More

Industry reports have periodical publisher Hearst looking to get into the wireless e-reader market this year with a large-format wireless device specifically tailored to the reading (and advertising) requirements of newspapers and periodicals. Although the device would certainly be compared with Amazon's Kindle reader, Hearst is reportedly eschewing the book market and looking to create a device which brings the existing business… Read More