Wednesday, 10 October 2007

The fall of Jellyfish Magazine

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Bad email marketing can ruin product launches

One of the reasons for the failure of NatMags’ Jellyfish magazine has been blamed on email distribution problems.

In general, it says that the reason Jellyfish Magazine was not as successful as hoped, is because the magazine was delivered by email and suffered delivery problems with Hotmail. Hotmail's spam filters were blocking Jellyfish, even when it was requested by users.

Zinio: Online magazines

There are hundreds of magazines ready to be downloaded on www.zinio.com
It works very simply: You browse through the magazines available to download, you download the "zinio reader" (this is the software used to read your magazine), you then read your magazine and receive issue notification automatically. This service is available worldwide, and you are charged for a years subscription.

Radiohead's bid to revive music industry: pay what you like to download albums

This article is about Radiohead's latest album "In Rainbows", and how they are letting fans pay however much they want to download it. This is the most high-profile attempt yet to restructure the economics of the music industry, which is struggling because of digital piracy. CD sales are less profitable than ever thanks to increased competition and piracy.

since this post, Radiohead's album has reached the number 1 spot in the charts.

Facebook powers past MySpace

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