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Hearst Planning To Flood The iPhone App Store With Crappy, Weaselly Aggregators
5:52AM Adam Frucci | Rather than provide quality content to the App Store, humongous publisher Hearst is taking a page from the now-banned Perfect Acumen playbook: charge people for other people’s content. More »
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The Grand Digital Plan To Save Magazines
5:50AM Matt Buchanan | That “Hulu for magazines” is happening. It’s impressive in its sense of scope and desperation, with Time, Hearst and Conde Nast – bitter rivals that publish more than 50 magazines altogether – coming together to save print magazines by mummifying them digitally. More »
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Time’s “Hulu For Magazines” Idea Is So, So Doomed
2:40AM Matt Buchanan | Magazines are basically f–ked. They know this, and figure the only way they’re going to survive is if they manage to successfully navigate the transition to digital. Time’s grand plan? A “Hulu for magazines”. Oh boy. More »
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