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Zite adds featured sections for partner publishers

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:36:55 +0000

Zite mobile apps are expanding beyond topic-based aggregation to offer personalized news sections for partner publishers.

: Bleacher Report is one of the featured publisher sections being added to

Amazon, Kindle Fire users buying lots of content through apps

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:10:37 +0000

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

AOL websites give best stories a second life in weekly iPad magazines

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:36:36 +0000

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.

Washington Post steps into paid content with iPad app for politics news

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:10:59 +0000

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

The Daily turns 1 with 100k subscribers, but may be years away from profit

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:02:58 +0000

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

New iPad app aggregates only long-form journalism

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:10:13 +0000

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

Even on smartphones, your news is more likely to be found through social media

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:14:18 +0000

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: One-third of mobile users downloaded news apps in past month

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:16:09 +0000

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

How would a split affect Barnes & Noble, Nook business?

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:52:18 +0000

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

Late caucus results expose flaw of print replicas, potential of native apps

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:49:05 +0000

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