Comments on: Digital Newsstand: Food for Thought for YP Industry? http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2009/11/25/digital-newsstand-food-for-thought-for-yp-industry/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: ROBERT PIRILLO http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2009/11/25/digital-newsstand-food-for-thought-for-yp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-406179 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:56:05 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2009/11/25/digital-newsstand-food-for-thought-for-yp-industry/#comment-406179 This will be for premium content and whoever doesn’t get on board will be the loser. Google and Yahoo have been robbing the publishers popup revenues for too long at the expense of their hard work. No more free-ride. Look at Viyya.com and you tell me!!!

]]> By: Ed Kohler http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2009/11/25/digital-newsstand-food-for-thought-for-yp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-396105 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:26:06 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2009/11/25/digital-newsstand-food-for-thought-for-yp-industry/#comment-396105 This is guaranteed to fail. Standards for publishing to mobile devices already exist. If they fail to adopt those standards, they’re going to put themselves at a disadvantage behind all of the more easily accessible content from millions of other sources.

This is the type of thinking we often see from companies who over-value their own content. We see the same thing from yellow pages companies who come up with proprietary interfaces to their content with little to no success.

Coincidentally, the reCAPTCHA for this comment is “dumbness old”.

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