Nine Questions on the Tablet and the News Industry Future

The Apple model, in a sense, just sets a new cost-of-distribution. While web distribution has been free-plus, the cost of Apple distribution – if you charge for news products – is a predictable, and seemingly stable 30%. Just give me 30% off the top, says Steve Jobs. Ironically, that 30% is ...

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AP Gateway: Learning from AP Mobile

Aggregation, as nurtured through the News Registry ingestion-and-tagging process, is the key, and that's been largely proven out. Among the big challenges is creating a compelling user experience that transcends old news conventions. Give AP Mobile a B here; what's needed is an A product;AP ...

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