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Penguin’s DK: Goodbye Books, Hello ‘Flat’ Content. Make Once, Use Anywhere
Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to a “flat” content model, where a printed book is only one of many output options. The digital publisher of DK also said that companies like his need to do this to be ready for the next big thing in books—whatever it is—but as is so often the case for old media industries, the change is “massive” and not easy for everyone in publishing.
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Updated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will make money in years ahead.
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Apple Gets Hit With $1.9 Million Copyright Lawsuit By Chinese Writers
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is putting a big bet on China, where its products and services have proven hugely popular, but that could also leave it exposed to a few bad beats along the way: the company is currently being sued by a group of Chinese writers, who are accusing the company of copyright infringement over some books on offer in its app store. It’s an ironic turn of events, given that Apple has been battling extensive copyright infringement of its own in the country, in the form of counterfeit products.
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Updated: Exclusive: AP Branches Out, Adds Pulse To Its Digital Mix
Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating there, too. Today it is announcing a deal with one of the bigger tablet news-reading apps, Pulse, to run AP text, video and photographic coverage via Pulse. It will be the first time the AP will appear within the service.
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Samsung/HTC: Two Sides Of An Android Coin. Why’s Samsung Winning The Toss?
Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market—over half of all smartphones being used today—but that rising tide is not lifting all boats. Sales figures out today from the two largest Android device makers, Samsung and HTC, present two different pictures, with Samsung posting record profits and HTC’s declining. Here’s a few thoughts on why that might be the case.
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When Playing Defense, Apple Willing To Settle Patent Disputes
Apple’s aggressive mobile patent strategy is apparently reserved for its offensive maneuvers. It has agreed to settle a patent lawsuit brought by Elan Microelectronics for $5 million and a cross-licensing agreement, according to a report.
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Can Apple Shake Up TV Like It Has Mobile With Its iPhone?
The anticipation and speculation surrounding what could be the next product on the cards for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)—Apple TV—raises some questions about how, and if, the TV industry will get as disrupted by Apple as the mobile world did with the introduction of the iPhone.
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Highlights of 2011: A Crazy Year In Mobile, By The Numbers
This is the first in a series of posts over the next week that will look at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cover, from publishing to mobile to advertising.
If we accept that the modern mobile computing movement kicked off in 2007 with the launch of the iPhone, than 2011 was easily the most pivotal year we’ve yet seen. Here are five numbers that illustrate just how eventful a year it was.
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Samsung’s Anti-Apple Campaign Appears To Be Working
Samsung phones overtook iPhone for U.S. brand perception in the week after Samsung launched a TV campaign mocking hipster fanboys and iPhone’s battery.
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In Russia, DST’s Mail.ru And Yandex Ramp Up Mobile Presence
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ubiquity among the growing number of smartphone users in the country: the search giant is reportedly planning to launch search apps for Apple’s iOS devices by the end of this year.
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