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very Friday morning, that week’s issue of the Economist lands on my desk in FIPP’s London-based office. Up until two years ago


this was always a delightful moment – the pulling apart of the polythene wrapper and the quick scan of the contents, noting which in-depth articles I’d be getting my teeth into on my train commute home later that day. Not any more, and not for the past two years, as now each Friday morning my tablet edition of the Economist arrives in my iPad in time for my morning commute. Better still, it arrives no matter where in the world I am, and given FIPP is a worldwide organisation and I travel a lot, that’s a pretty handy facility. It doesn’t have much in the way of bells and whistles, but I really like my tablet edition of the Economist. I mention this because there’s been


quite a bit of activity in the Twittersphere about the story FIPP ran recently entitled ‘Are tablet magazines dead or


enthusiasts rightly point out that it’s simply too early to be that definitive given the amount of experimentation going on in terms of functionality, pricing models and understanding the new marketing demands and techniques. They explain that digital edition downloads are doubling each year, and that the tablet universe itself is growing massively – the global number of tablet users to the end of 2013 is some 439 million, compared to a PC user base of 1.5bn, and a smartphone user base of 1.6bn, which shows the potential that exists for tablet expansion. Clearly, both arguments need examining


in depth. Which was one of the reasons that FIPP created the Digital Newsstand Forum (DNF), held in Bangkok in May (see pages 31-33). Experts from the service provider side and from magazine media groups were in broad agreement over some basic issues – that yes, it is far too early to be definitive; that readers like PDF editions


“One argument is that magazine apps are simply invisible, as search engines and social media don’t pick them up...”


alive?’ (fipp.com/news/are-tablet-magazines- dead-or-alive). The story is a synopsis of the chapter in our Innovations in Magazine Media 2014 World Report and highlights the key issues of this debate. Those that felt tablet magazines were


dead highlighted how magazine apps were simply buried in the wealth of apps people had on their phones and tablets – a Nielsen estimate was that the average user has 41 apps, for example. The second argument is that magazine apps are simply invisible, as search engines and social media don’t pick them up or allow for sharing, thus cutting traffic potential. Then, of course, the economics of producing apps is used as the final clincher in the argument. On the other hand, tablet magazine


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of a magazine (not on a smartphone, though), but that will change over time; and that just at the moment working on ‘discoverability’ is more important than creating the new killer app. Digital editions and apps, then, are ‘works in progress’. Concretely, there were two important


take-outs: all the pricing evidence, as presented at the DNF, suggests that users expect digital editions to be half the price of print; and advertisers now expect solutions across all platforms. So while digital editions open extremely


interesting new revenue streams in terms of ecommerce and the like, following where the consumer is going (and they are going mobile) and delivering what the advertiser wants, is still looking like the best strategy.


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