Steve Jobs Rumored to Have Recently Traveled to New York for iPad Media Talks

[riverfreak]

My problem with magazines on the iPad is simply, how does digital distribution overcome the thing that's killed magazines in the first place? Specifically, by the time you assemble a magazine's worth of content, its already out of date. And if you're going to have live updates, then isn't this just a web site that you pay for by the unit?

Agreed, but I also think you're only thinking about news magazines, which are a tiny fragment of the market. And there's no reason to say that with a subscription model in place, that a magazine couldn't tweak their schedule. Perhaps they could release late-breaking commentary or special features?

Magazines are challenged because of lowered discretionary spending due to economic factors and declining ad revenue as the industry has been fractured by web, print, tv, billboards, etc.

Non-sequitur:
There are a whole slew of non-news but news related magazines I'd love to see in a print-like format on the iPad: The Nation, The Economist, Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books. These magazines, although temporal, are still relevant months after issue.

 

[muncyweb]

Irony

Ironically the Pranna website is completely Flash based and totally useless on the iPad.

http://www.prannanyc.com/

 

[Kristenn]

Lemme guess. The conversation centered on, "I hold in my hand your savior. All you must do is develop content in HTML5 (and stay away from flash) and the minions shall spew forth!"

I lol'd

 

[MacGuffin]

So?

Time, NYTimes and WSJ are geezercasts. They're only the "media elite," to quote the linked CNN/Money headline, for a dwindling, aging market of soon-to-be-massively-diabetic-and-bedridden boomers.

I never plan to read another article from the Time Warner wallpaper factory in my life. Neither on dead trees, nor on dead apps walking.