Update: Available in app store now.
Hindi/English version: http://bit.ly/9B5bbZ
Tamil/English version: http://bit.ly/9baGac
We are eagerly awaiting for the App Store approval. In the meantime enjoy this short video –
Ok this a fan boy post here. I love Wired magazine and I am sure most of the serious gadget geeks can’t live without this wonderful magazine. Today Conde Naste’ has launched iPad version of Wired and this is going to be huge for several reasons.
Wired, by it’s unique place in technology journalism, is also expected to successfully showcase iPad as the future of media. I will be downloading it soon. Magazine has got great features and shows the potential of iPad in extending magazine’s reading experience.
You can see the video here:
This is what excites us at Fliplog. Idea of reinventing reading experience for different content formats is just getting started and we applaud Conde Nast for taking leadership role here.
Small but not insignificant point about this iPad version is that it’s approved by Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).
iPad launch is going in full swing. People are raving about it. It’s not just the regular Apple fanboys who are relishing the launch, media executives all across the world are waiting with the proverbial bated breath.
Big question on their mind – Can iPad save the media industry? We looked around and found several posts which are must read and give us a sneak preview of what changes we can expect in the media landscape.
Ryan Tate at Gawker – Turn your iPad into a futuristic news portal
Dave Itzkoff writing on New York Times – Can the iPad do whatever a comic store do
Robert Niles recommending Video on Demand – What is your strategy for delivering news via Video on Demand?
John Dvorak’s predictable rant on MarketWatch. His point – The device that they are openly touting may provide the death knell for the lot of them. The gushing, long-winded yet shallow reviews do not help their cause.
NPR Executives are excited about HTML5 and iPad. Brad Stone covering NPR’s iPad app. Digital Media Player is getting a strong push.
Our first effort in children book category – Chand Ka Tohfa – is now live on iPad app store. I guess this was the easy part, now we need to get moms and dads to buy iPad and share this wonderful eBook experience with their kids.
Download Chand Ka Tohfa from iPad App Store
Download from itunes: http://bit.ly/d7Eso5
Kleiner Perkins’ Doubles Down The iFund To $200 Million For the iPad
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ipad-fund/
Main quotes by John Doerr:
It feels like Deja Vu all over again. Twice in a lifetime
iPad is direct, it’s natural. WYTIWis — what you touch, is what is
I don’t know. I don’t know what apps are going to be built, but let me tell you about some I think about. I think every doctor and nurse will use an iPad. I don’t think we can anticipate the great new uses.
Within 5 weeks one of the stealth ventures is going to roll out an app that’s iPad-only. And quickly we’ll see education apps which will transform things.
Apple rolled out few iPad related videos on YouTube. Check this iBooks related video. Books look gorgeous.
WSJ has a late running story on how business model related nuances are still getting worked out between Apple and leading publishers. Highlights of that post –
Amazon today sells that e-book for $9.99, the bookseller is losing about $4.50 on each sale—a hit Amazon has been willing to take to build a dominant market share in e-books and power sales of its Kindle reading device.
The Apple model would bring in less revenue per title for publishers and authors. Since Apple will take a 30% fee on sales, a $14.99 e-book will generate $10.49 for publishers. That publishers and authors stand to make lower revenue per book sold on the Apple model is one reason some are hesitating about signing up with the tablet.
A good chunk, at least 20% to 30% of your e-books, are sold at a loss. This could bring up gross margins closer to those on physical books
One thing is for sure, publishing industry as we know it is about to be changed forever. Apple is rewriting the rules of publishing business and along the way they will end up redefining what we mean by books.
O’Reilly – publisher of technology related books is seeing massive growth in their eBook segment –
market for printed computer books declining at a double-digit rate, digital sales will overtake print much sooner than most people realize