Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 74, providing a summary of major news items from the printing, packaging, digital and communications technology sectors. PIND incorporates brief summaries and links to the week's key news stories so that you can look up that all important detail, digging deeper behind the headline. Do also take a look at our automated Twitter-based GenesisNews Print Daily publication; why not take out a free subscription for a daily digital delivery!
We begin this week with a focus on publishing and publishing issues: where else to start but with the recent Ifra Expo still fresh in the mind. WAN-IFRA’s annual update has detailed that whilst printed newspaper circulation is certainly down on a world-wide basis, this is more than made up for by the increase in digital audiences. The Australian backs up these claims on a more local level.
Book publishers have undoubtedly been watching Amazon closely over recent years, but this post looks at how invasive the company has become in the publishing world, as it now seeks to bring top authors on board.
InPublishing asks the question about Apple’s Newsstand: is it the answer to every publishers dreams? A cross between an app and a folder, Newsstand is designed in a similar style to the iBooks bookcase. Can it deliver?
QR codes are an often visited publishing topic here at PIND. This week we look at a posting that outlines when you shouldn’t use QR codes.
The Association of Online Publishers tenth annual summit is also reviewed by the team at InPublishing, as questions about paid for content, data management, and quantity of readers are examined.
Crossing between publishing and technology, best known for its web blog Engadget is just launching its first digital magazine. The first edition of Distro traces the origins of the iPhone 4S.
On the subject of Apple, the Guardian has been looking at what some might consider a dated but still interesting question: how Apple eclipsed Microsoft.
If you are an Android phone fan you might dismiss such talk as all in the past. You might also still hanker after an iPhone. Here is an Android app just made for you: Espier Launcher makes your Android phone look just like iOS!
Talking of Android, one of the topics of the week has been the announcement of Android 4.0 – the software that aims to bring together the phone and tablet versions of the operating system. Code named Ice Cream Sandwich, we look at what this latest release brings to the party.
The guys at Wired meanwhile suggest that Google shouldn’t get itself too worried about tablets just yet. Whilst Ice Cream Sandwich might be billed as the unifying OS, the author suggests that tablets are still not a big part of Google’s business.
Further to many news stories recently, the guys at TechCrunch jump on the Kodak bandwagon, suggesting that is really is just a matter of time before this big ship sinks.
Elsewhere on the interesting fringes of print, ThinFilm and PARC demonstrate printable, organic circuitry. Yes, printed electronics are here to stay! PrintWeek adds some further thoughts on the subject as well.
Following on from last week’s PIND examination of both iOS5 and the iPhone 4S we include this week some comment re iCloud in action; initial sales activity for the phone, with some 4 million sales in three days; and an example of how quickly some vendors are snapping into iOS5, with EFI already promoting print capabilities from iOS5 devices.
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 75. We aim to add details of our next edition this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
PIND074
Missed Issue 73, including details of iOS5 and the iPhone 4S? Then simply click here!
Issue 72: Steve Jobs obits; India
Issue 71: Kindle Fire; LabelExpo
Issue 70: HP; KBA; MGi; Kindle
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Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
We begin this week with a focus on publishing and publishing issues: where else to start but with the recent Ifra Expo still fresh in the mind. WAN-IFRA’s annual update has detailed that whilst printed newspaper circulation is certainly down on a world-wide basis, this is more than made up for by the increase in digital audiences. The Australian backs up these claims on a more local level.Book publishers have undoubtedly been watching Amazon closely over recent years, but this post looks at how invasive the company has become in the publishing world, as it now seeks to bring top authors on board.
InPublishing asks the question about Apple’s Newsstand: is it the answer to every publishers dreams? A cross between an app and a folder, Newsstand is designed in a similar style to the iBooks bookcase. Can it deliver?QR codes are an often visited publishing topic here at PIND. This week we look at a posting that outlines when you shouldn’t use QR codes.
The Association of Online Publishers tenth annual summit is also reviewed by the team at InPublishing, as questions about paid for content, data management, and quantity of readers are examined.Crossing between publishing and technology, best known for its web blog Engadget is just launching its first digital magazine. The first edition of Distro traces the origins of the iPhone 4S.
On the subject of Apple, the Guardian has been looking at what some might consider a dated but still interesting question: how Apple eclipsed Microsoft.If you are an Android phone fan you might dismiss such talk as all in the past. You might also still hanker after an iPhone. Here is an Android app just made for you: Espier Launcher makes your Android phone look just like iOS!
Talking of Android, one of the topics of the week has been the announcement of Android 4.0 – the software that aims to bring together the phone and tablet versions of the operating system. Code named Ice Cream Sandwich, we look at what this latest release brings to the party.The guys at Wired meanwhile suggest that Google shouldn’t get itself too worried about tablets just yet. Whilst Ice Cream Sandwich might be billed as the unifying OS, the author suggests that tablets are still not a big part of Google’s business.
Further to many news stories recently, the guys at TechCrunch jump on the Kodak bandwagon, suggesting that is really is just a matter of time before this big ship sinks.Elsewhere on the interesting fringes of print, ThinFilm and PARC demonstrate printable, organic circuitry. Yes, printed electronics are here to stay! PrintWeek adds some further thoughts on the subject as well.
Following on from last week’s PIND examination of both iOS5 and the iPhone 4S we include this week some comment re iCloud in action; initial sales activity for the phone, with some 4 million sales in three days; and an example of how quickly some vendors are snapping into iOS5, with EFI already promoting print capabilities from iOS5 devices.Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 75. We aim to add details of our next edition this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
PIND074
Missed Issue 73, including details of iOS5 and the iPhone 4S? Then simply click here!
Issue 72: Steve Jobs obits; India
Issue 71: Kindle Fire; LabelExpo
Issue 70: HP; KBA; MGi; Kindle
Get Your Print News Every Day!
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
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