Mobile Media: News about mobile & its applications & implications for media. Written by Jeff Sonderman with contributions from Regina McCombs. Suggest a story.
Zite mobile apps are expanding beyond topic-based aggregation to offer personalized news sections for partner publishers.
Flurry | China Economic News Service
More evidence that Amazon’s Kindle Fire is pulling far ahead of other Android-powered tablets: A study finds the average Amazon app store user spent almost four times more money on in-app purchases than a… Read more
The mobile team at AOL is finding success with a new publishing model that plucks the best longform and enterprise writing from an otherwise fast-paced website and republishes it in a design-rich tablet magazine.
The new WP Politics iPad app, which launches Monday, marks The Washington Post’s most significant attempt yet to charge readers for digital content.
The Post’s website and most everything else it does digitally is free (ad-supported). The company tried… Read more
A year ago today Rupert Murdoch stood on a stage at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and unveiled the first “newspaper” built exclusively for the iPad — The Daily.
The News Corp. CEO set a high bar. He said… Read more
The essential role of an aggregator is to make choices for readers, usually about which topics, sources or issues are worth paying attention to. A new aggregation and reading app launching Wednesday for the iPad holds a different standard —… Read more
The average person looking at a smartphone screen right now is more likely to come across news from your organization through a Facebook or Twitter app than through your own news app.
Recent studies of mobile and tablet audience behaviors… Read more
Nielsen Wire
One-third of tablet and smartphone owners in a Nielsen survey said they had downloaded a news app within the past 30 days, and 19 percent had paid for one. The chart below shows survey results for news and… Read more
Barnes & Noble is exploring whether to spin off or sell its Nook e-book and e-reader business line, according to paidContent and others.
What would that mean? It would separate the fast-growing Nook business (up about 70 percent annually… Read more
Mornings like this one have always been a problem for newspapers. When the Iowa caucuses results — or other late news — breaks on or after the print deadline, most front pages feature an inconclusive story.
That’s an unavoidable… Read more