The Mobile-Storage Dilemma, Time’s Responsive Design Move, Eye-Tracking Insights, The Outlook for Print Magazines, TFP’s New ‘Women in Media’ Blog, TFP InDesign Tip: Customize Your Workspace
Welcome to TFP’s weekly roundup of interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world. This week, we’re discussing the domino effect of large iOS apps, Poynter’s latest eye-tracking research, what Newsweek‘s move to digital-only means for the print magazine industry, and more.
- Min Online reports that the increasingly large size of iOS apps is causing a storage dilemma for users of mobile devices. The implication for publishers is that downloadable editions of their magazines might have a limited digital-shelf life, as device owners have no choice but to delete files to make room for newer apps and downloads.
- You can add Time to the list of publications jumping on the responsive-design bandwagon. As of this week, its newly redesigned website will automatically adapt to the size of any device—a feature it hopes will engage readers who prefer getting their news via a browser rather than the magazine’s apps.
- Poynter’s latest eye-tracking study offers some new insights into how iPad users engage with news stories. One significant finding related to digital magazine design: 70% of readers preferred to hold the devices horizontally, reading in landscape view.
- Following last week’s announcement that Newsweek will be going digital-only in 2013, analysts started weighing in on the implications for the industry’s future. Despite predictions that print editions will likely disappear, others argue that print magazines are holding steady and that Newsweek‘s strategy reflects its own shortcomings, not the entire print industry’s.
- Look for regular announcements, updates, and interviews in our newly launched Women in Media blog, where we’ll be highlighting the achievements of female technology, media, and publishing executives who are inspiring us and future generations of industry leaders.
- This week on TFP’s InDesign Tips blog, we explain how to create and save a personalized workspace so you always have your most-used features and panels right where you want them. And check out our previous tip on troubleshooting InDesign performance problems.
This Week in Publishing appears every Friday on the TFP blog. Every week we compile interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world and put together a wrap-up to help our readers stay up-to-date. Think we missed something great? Leave a comment below and let us know.
Posted by: Gina Barrett