Johnston Press, the regional newspaper publisher, has been finding life hard this year, with pre-tax profits down nearly 50% in the six months to July. Some 179 jobs have also been axed during this period.Elsewhere in newspaper land, the Wall Street Journal has been working hard on giving potential readers good reasons to sign up to its paywalled products. Hats off for effort for sure. MediaWeek gives us the low-down on how newspapers are monetising tablets.
Further to our articles last week on e-books, and the battles faced by the printed product, the Guardian provides further focus. In this latest comment it looks more at a more central problem: the battle for the authors. If writers cannot make money, then both forms of the book are surely dead. One report says that Western Europe is turning swiftly towards the e-book.The tablet world has certainly been rocked by the demise of the HP TouchPad, but will Amazon be any more successful? Wired took a close look at the issues this week, and it is a very worthwhile read - if you are interested in tablets do take the time to go through this text.
In the meantime, Apple is still making things tough for the guys at Samsung, with further court action now looking likely to prevent the South Korean giant from participating in the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.As one tablet dies, another comes along to take its place. The Lenovo ThinkPad is about to see the light of day according to those Mashable chaps. If the $499 price tag translates directly to sterling we could be looking at a £300 quality tablet. You might say that this is only for a 16Gb and wi-fi model, but actually that is more than enough for an awful lot of potential users. The product is based around a 10.1 inch screen and Android Honeycomb OS.
The latest on QR codes offers some very artistic interpretations of code images – scroll down this entry from Web Designer Depot to see some great designs. A further set of excellent examples are shown here. I dare you not to be inspired!If you live in England and tune in even occasionally to the BBC’s news service you are unlikely to have missed an item detailing how the BBC did something quite useful this week, releasing the results of a survey detailing 3G coverage across the country. No surprises in the results, however! Patchy in the cities and pretty hopeless in the countryside. Surprise, surprise!!
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