Laura Hazard Owen
Jan 13, 2012 9:08 AM
USA Today is reporting a post-holiday e-book “surge,” with 32 of the top 50 titles on its most recent list selling more copies in digital format than in print, including all top ten titles. I broke down the lists to see which books sold more copies in each format.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 3, 2012 1:24 PM
Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This time, USA Today has decided to launch a specialized app for the Kindle Fire despite having already developed an Android tablet application.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Aug 31, 2011 12:40 PM
Mobile news reading app Pulse is reaching out to a more mainstream audience with its announcement of three new publishing partners: USA Today, Women’s Health and the New Yorker.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Jul 11, 2011 4:53 PM
Today marks the official launch of USA Today’s new books site, books.usatoday.com. The most noticeable changes are to its bestseller list, which now has a more colorful interface and for the first time, features buy links. It’s another way that USA Today’s bestseller list is trying to set itself apart…
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David Kaplan
Aug 27, 2010 2:00 AM
USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke is embarking on the biggest change in the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship’s 28-year history as he shifts away from print and towards mobile. The newsroom is being restructured around content rings instead of its four traditional departments of news, money, life and sports. On the…
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David Kaplan
Apr 16, 2010 10:12 AM
USA Today’s free, solely ad-supported iPad app will switch to subscription in July when the app’s exclusive sponsorship deal with Courtyard by Marriott concludes, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow said during the company’s Q1 earnings call. The app, which hit Apple’s iTunes App Store just before the iPad launched…
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Tricia Duryee
Dec 22, 2008 7:43 PM
NPR Mobile and USA Today are the latest news organizations to add individual applications to the iPhone App store. The free NPR Mobile app allows you to browse and stream NPR programs, plus it includes an NPR station finder along with descriptions of each local spot, reports Gizmodo. The iPhone…
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