Dealing With Digital Disruption, Making a Case for Interactive Editions, A Conversation With Nat Geo’s Melina Bellows, What’s in Store for Apple, Women in Media: The Latest Buzz, DPS Tip: Working With DPS Articles
Welcome to TFP’s weekly roundup of interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world. This week, we’re discussing digital disruption, interactive digital magazines, what Apple revealed in its latest earnings call, and more.
- “Traditional news organizations need to embrace the disruption brought by digital culture—or they risk becoming obsolete,” a MediaShift blog post warned this week. The proposed solution? Embracing a continuous cycle of innovation and, inevitably, failures.
- With mobile devices accounting for a growing share of many publishers’ web traffic, eMedia Vitals’ Rob O’Regan makes the case that it’s time for them to consider moving beyond PDF replicas and invest their resources in producing interactive digital editions.
- At the National Geographic Society, Melina Bellows helped transform a struggling children’s magazine into the organization’s largest income generator. In a conversation with TFP’s Margot Knorr Mancini, Bellows discusses Kids magazine’s turnaround and the opportunities that lie ahead.
- Apple’s Q2 earnings point to strong iPad sales—perhaps at the iPhone’s expense. During the earnings call, CEO Tim Cook also indicated that there would be no new Apple products released until this fall—contradicting rumors that a fifth-generation iPad would become available in June.
- In the past few weeks, there’s been another significant wave of stories and announcements accentuating how high-profile women are making their mark in the media and publishing industries. Read the highlights on TFP’s Women in Media blog.
- Visit TFP’s DPS Tips blog to learn more about working with Articles in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
This Week in Publishing appears every Friday on the TFP blog. Every week we compile interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world and put together a wrap-up to help our readers stay up-to-date. Think we missed something great? Leave a comment below and let us know.
Posted by: Gina Barrett