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Zmags Raises $4.2 Million Second Round For Online Publishing - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 29 May 2008 11:29 AM PST

Zmags, which makes software for publishing interactive content, has raised a $4.2 million second round from OpenView Venture Partners. The Denmark-based company has now raised a total of $7 million.…

As Print Ad Pages Decline, E-Paper To The Rescue—In 2020 - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 27 May 2008 08:08 PM PST

It’s a tough time for print publications. A seven-year decline in paid circ culminated in last year’s 1.7 percent drop to $277 million in H107 from $282 million in the…

Orange Trials Mobile E-Newspaper Reader With Le Monde Et Al - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 05:41 AM PST

Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

Hearst Interactive Backing Kindle-Like E-Book Reader Startup FirstPaper - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 05 Apr 2008 12:52 PM PST

Hearst Interactive, the digital media investment arm of Hearst Corp, is incubating a Kindle-like e-book reader, paidContent.org has learned, and the separate venture is called FirstPaper. The stealth startup is…

Motricity Sells Online eBooks Division To Fictionwise - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Jan 2008 09:36 PM PST

The mobile content platform and services company Motricity has sold off an outlying division: its online eBook store eReader.com. It has sold it off to Fictionwise, an independent eBook retailer…

Amazon.com’s Kindle Book Reader: The Details And The Devil - 19 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 18 Nov 2007 12:50 PM PST

So it is a bit ridiculous that Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has been trying to keep us from disclosing the details on its Kindle e-book device, while giving Newsweek a cover…

Amazon.com Finally To Launch Reader Next Week: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 Nov 2007 04:42 PM PST

So says report in News.com, saying it will be launched on Monday in NYC. We have written about it before, here. News.com says that “Kindle” is equipped with a Wi-Fi…

Online To Hit Nearly 7.5 Percent Of Total ‘07 Ad Spend; On Track For 10 Percent In ‘08: Forecast - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 08 Nov 2007 06:16 AM PST

Despite some economic weakness, and diminished display ad spending from the mortgage industry, online ad spend will be up 26.8 percent over last year—$21.4 billion—accounting for 7.4 percent of the…

Toronto Star Ceases Publication Of E-Paper To Concentrate On Web And Mobile - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 12 Oct 2007 03:35 PM PST

A little more than a year after introducing its PDF edition Star PM, The Toronto Star is pulling the plug on the e-newspaper, E&P reports. The company says it ceased…

Content Conversion Firm Olive Software Gets $5 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 May 2007 11:33 AM PST

Olive Software, the content conversion and electronic edition software firm, which last year was almost bought by Google, has now received $5 million. The round was led by BlueCrest Capital…

Chicago Sun-Times Revamp Includes Special Afternoon Download, Hyperlocal Features - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 04 Apr 2007 12:48 PM PST

The Chicago Sun-Times is bringing back the afternoon edition for the digital age. As part of a wholesale redesign of the daily newspaper’s print and internet units, online readers can…

TimesSelect Adds 21,000 Free Academic Subs In First Week; Times Reader Premium Plans Criticized - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 21 Mar 2007 09:35 AM PST

Updated to include Sunday numbers. About 7,000 .edu subscribers were paying for half-price TimesSelect academic subscriptions when the NYT switched to a free plan March 13; since then, some 21,000…

NYT Will Charge For Times Reader: $165 A Year; Free To Home Subs - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 Mar 2007 11:27 AM PST

When Times Reader, powered by Microsoft software, started its beta last September, the company said no decision had been made about charging for the service and the fine print warned…

Norway Dismisses PDF Newspapers, Unless You Consider a Circulation in the Low Three Figures Success - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Thu 22 Feb 2007 07:56 AM PST

You may not be a regular reader of reports from the Norweigian Businesses’ Association, but a new report from the organization, which we found cited on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, is…

London’s Daily Mail Launches Downloadable Version - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 20 Feb 2007 07:20 AM PST

London’s Daily Mail launched its first “e-paper edition” Monday, which the company is pitching as a halfway point between website and newsprint, the Guardian reported. The Mail eReader, a fully…

Electronic Edition Company Zinio Sold To PE Firm Gilvest - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Feb 2007 07:12 PM PST

You’re reading it here first: Zinio, the electronic/digital editions software firm, has been sold to Gilvest, a private equity firm, paidContent.org has learned. An official announcement should come tomorrow. Gilvest…

@ Media Summit: Online Publishers Hope To Compete With and Attract Advertisers With Customization - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 09 Feb 2007 05:15 AM PST

With marketers able to craft their own interactive environments, the most important sources of revenue for editorial websites are also becoming rivals—possibly rendering online publications less necessary. How to maintain…

Zinio Sells Off Magazine E-Commerce Website BlueDolphin To M2M - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 17 Jan 2007 07:25 PM PST

Less than 16 months after buying it, Zinio, the electronic editions technology company, has sold off BlueDolphin, its magazine sales destination site and the technology backend to M2 Media Group,…

Harper Collins Invests in NewsStand; To Launch Digital Books Services - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 11 Jan 2007 04:26 PM PST

Harper Collins (part of News Corp), which has recently made the right noises about digitizing and selling its books catalog online, has invested in the Austin-based electronic editions company NewsStand.…

E-Paper Display Company Plastic Logic Receives $100 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 06 Jan 2007 12:29 AM PST

In one of the biggest venture capital rounds ever in Europe, UK electronic paper display technology company Plastic Logic has received $100 million in venture funding. The new round was…

Sony’s E-book Device And Store To Launch Next Month; Six Publishers On Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 26 Sep 2006 07:11 PM PST

Sony Reader, the much awaited portable e-book reader from Sony, will launch on October 1, along with the online e-book store, after missing an earlier unveiling in the Spring due…

FCC Filings: Amazon Kindles E-Book Reader? - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 11 Sep 2006 12:11 PM PST

A few days after the debut of flawed Amazon Unbox Video comes word of what looks like e-book reader pland. The 4.9"x7.5"X0.7" device described by Engadget from FCC filings is…

Microsoft’s E-Editions Software; NYT’s Edition - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 30 Apr 2006 07:05 AM PST

This is being touted as a big thing in some of the stories coming out of this, when really, the technology for developing electronic editions has been around for years…

Playboy’s Digital Edition Growth: 50-100 New Subscribers A Day - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 15 Feb 2006 07:04 PM PST

Playboy Enterprises, which announced its Q4 earnings earlier this week, talked about the growth of the digital/electronic edition of it magazine, which it launched last year. In the conference call…

NewsStand Recapitalizes; Gets $5.6 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 06 Feb 2006 10:04 AM PST

The digital/electronic editions company NewsStand, in which NYTimes invested previously, has secured nearly $4 million of a $5.6 million first round recap funding, according to a regulatory filing, picked up…