Comments on: iPad: Somebody Finally Gets It http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2010/02/02/ipad-somebody-finally-gets-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ipad-somebody-finally-gets-it Tom Richmond- Cartoonist and Humorous Illustrator Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Strip News 2/5/10 | Strip News | ArtPatient.com | ArtPatient.com http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2010/02/02/ipad-somebody-finally-gets-it/comment-page-1/#comment-57985 Strip News 2/5/10 | Strip News | ArtPatient.com | ArtPatient.com Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:08:54 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=7576#comment-57985 [...] on. How do I know this? Comic Book Resources told me so. And Tom Richmond had the right idea about digital tablets. Work them for the strengths they have, not as a replacement for other media channels. Bleeding [...] [...] on. How do I know this? Comic Book Resources told me so. And Tom Richmond had the right idea about digital tablets. Work them for the strengths they have, not as a replacement for other media channels. Bleeding [...]

]]> By: Tom http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2010/02/02/ipad-somebody-finally-gets-it/comment-page-1/#comment-57946 Tom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:43:00 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=7576#comment-57946 Well, that's why I said it's the delivery and the format of the "new" magazines that will be the key. People can see TV shows for free on TV, but they still sell a ton of them on iTunes. Convenience, offline consumption and ultimately the CONTENT combined with a good price will get people to subscribe to iMags. And, yes, newspapers and magazines need to stop being morons and give away their content for nothing on their websites as well. Well, that’s why I said it’s the delivery and the format of the “new” magazines that will be the key. People can see TV shows for free on TV, but they still sell a ton of them on iTunes. Convenience, offline consumption and ultimately the CONTENT combined with a good price will get people to subscribe to iMags. And, yes, newspapers and magazines need to stop being morons and give away their content for nothing on their websites as well.

]]> By: Jim http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2010/02/02/ipad-somebody-finally-gets-it/comment-page-1/#comment-57940 Jim Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:12:14 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=7576#comment-57940 Oh, I get it... an iMad for the iPad! Oh, I get it… an iMad for the iPad!

]]> By: Mark Engblom http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2010/02/02/ipad-somebody-finally-gets-it/comment-page-1/#comment-57936 Mark Engblom Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:57:00 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=7576#comment-57936 <b>" The mindset that the web should be free needs to be changed.</b> Good luck getting <b>that</b> genie back in the bottle. Sure, Apple has done something similar by (somewhat) taming the "Wild West" of illegal music downloading/sharing by introducing the iTunes concept...but I'm not sure there's going to be a corresponding iTunes solution for the floundering magazine industry. The industry has always had a shaky (at best) presence on the web, with varying degrees of accessability....so to hope that 15 years of this kind of chaos is going to coalesce into a unified business model is pretty optimistic. But if anyone can bring some semblance of order and unification to the scene, it's Apple. I hear you on the need for people to pay content generators for their labor...but after a decade and a half of people getting almost all of the information they want for only a click, that labor has been devalued to the point of no (or almost no) return. Witness the recent decision of Newsday to go completely behind the pay wall: http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site Summary: After three months, only <b>35 people</b> agreed to pay $5 a week for total access to Newsday. So, unless all magazines and newspapers everywhere agree to instantly go behind the pay wall at the same time, it's hard to foresee when the eroding of creativity and intellectual property will slow down, much less reverse itself. ” The mindset that the web should be free needs to be changed.

Good luck getting that genie back in the bottle.

Sure, Apple has done something similar by (somewhat) taming the “Wild West” of illegal music downloading/sharing by introducing the iTunes concept…but I’m not sure there’s going to be a corresponding iTunes solution for the floundering magazine industry. The industry has always had a shaky (at best) presence on the web, with varying degrees of accessability….so to hope that 15 years of this kind of chaos is going to coalesce into a unified business model is pretty optimistic. But if anyone can bring some semblance of order and unification to the scene, it’s Apple.

I hear you on the need for people to pay content generators for their labor…but after a decade and a half of people getting almost all of the information they want for only a click, that labor has been devalued to the point of no (or almost no) return. Witness the recent decision of Newsday to go completely behind the pay wall:

http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site

Summary: After three months, only 35 people agreed to pay $5 a week for total access to Newsday.

So, unless all magazines and newspapers everywhere agree to instantly go behind the pay wall at the same time, it’s hard to foresee when the eroding of creativity and intellectual property will slow down, much less reverse itself.

]]> By: Jose http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2010/02/02/ipad-somebody-finally-gets-it/comment-page-1/#comment-57917 Jose Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:27:13 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=7576#comment-57917 If mad decided to make their magazine available on the iBook store I would subscribe to it in a second. What I really want is for the comic industry to go this route as well. Books would be cheaper, and I wouldn't have to worry about storing in physically. If mad decided to make their magazine available on the iBook store I would subscribe to it in a second.

What I really want is for the comic industry to go this route as well. Books would be cheaper, and I wouldn’t have to worry about storing in physically.

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