Time Inc. Launches New Tablet Strategy

Time Inc. is making it easier for readers to access its magazines in digital form—the company announced Wednesday that it will make all 21 of its U.S. titles available on the iPad and other tablets by the end of the year. But consumers still won’t be able to buy subscriptions through a key sales channel, Apple’s iTunes store. The publisher said it's expanding its “all-access” model already in place at Time and Sports Illustrated that lets people buy print-digital bundles as well as digital-only subscriptions and single issues. Time Inc. already distributes its titles in the HP TouchPad, Android and Next Issue Media stores, and as part of today's announcement said it would start to sell digital editions on Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color. The announcement was made by Maurice Edelson and may be his first public statement since he was appointed, along with Howard Averill and John Huey, to run the company after Jack Griffin was fired as CEO in February. Edelson, who has been overseeing strategy and meeting with Apple to work on iPad subscription sales, called the news a "bold commitment" to offering content in the burgeoning tablet market. Other major publishers, including Hearst and Condé Nast, have acquiesced to Apple, which takes a 30 percent cut of revenue from sales through iTunes and controls the consumer relationship, in order to offer subscriptions through its store. But Time Inc. seems to have foregone that strategy in order to maintain control over its subscriber... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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Brittney Griner Didn’t Owe Us Anything. Her New Memoir Is Devastating.

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In his memoir, Georgetown’s John Thompson doesn’t hold back

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Former CIA director John Brennan takes on Trump, and doesn’t hold back

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Rethinking Digital Editions During the Pandemic and Beyond

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US libraries boycott Macmillan over e-book policy change

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Francis Ford Coppola hates on Marvel, calling MCU movies ‘despicable’

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Here isn't the news: Murdoch papers bow out of sales audit

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Endeavour Press to publish IndieBooks' digital editions

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Monica Crowley accused of plagiarism as she joins Trump team

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Cosmopolitan magazine overtakes Glamour in battle of glossies

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First-day sales for Harper Lee 'top 105k'

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WHS' Kobo partnership gives Mills & Boon boost

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Some Disney movies unavailable on Amazon in apparent contract dispute

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