Time is getting ready to push all 21 of their magazines onto every tablet they can get to. That will include the iPad, Android tablets, the Touchpad and Nook Color. The Kindle, strangely, and Playbook, less strangely, aren’t invited. [AllThingsD]
If I saw this girl walking by on the street, I’d be perplexed, too. I like it. But turns out it’s all part of a viral marketing campaign by Hearst Corporation to get you to buy… Cosmo for Guys? Ugh!
Time Magazine has just joined the New York Times in its paywall-erecting ways. Subscribers will soon be offered “all-access” plans that cover the bases from print to mobile and web. Non-subscribers will be locked out for three months.
“Blech! Ads! No thanks!” I hear you proclaim! But wait! Before you scroll past, take a moment to consider how it is that Fairfax and Peroni have managed to accomplish squeezing a credit card-sized screen into a magazine, with enough juice to play back not one, but two ads multiple times.
