{"id":10554,"date":"2013-12-16T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2013-12-16T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T15:48:56","slug":"some-interesting-findings-about-digital-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/some-interesting-findings-about-digital-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Some interesting findings about digital publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest I\u2019ve been kinda skeptical about the viability of high-gloss, tablet-oriented publications. In a world of Buzzfeed &amp; Flipboard, they\u2019ve struck me as nouveau CD-ROMs. I\u2019m pleased to see that evidently I\u2019ve been wrong. Check out some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emediavitals.com\/content\/adobe-digital-editions-gain-readership-engagement?utm_source=MESA+Email+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=e270c91e59-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f57b24d15f-e270c91e59-86803045\">recent findings from Adobe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The number of downloads of magazine editions created with DPS since its launch in March 2011 passed the 150 million mark this month. <strong>Downloads have increased 115% year over year, and DPS-created apps have three times as many unique monthly readers as they did a year ago<\/strong>, Adobe announced. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Adobe found that subscribers spend around <strong>50 minutes a month in a DPS app<\/strong> \u2013 a number that surpasses the 40 minutes per issue that GfK MRI found among print magazine readers in the fall of 2012. While that\u2019s not an apples-to-apples comparison of engagement, it does indicate that digital magazines are replicating the lean-back print experience. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Social sharing tools are becoming increasingly popular, for example, as is the web viewer technology that Adobe added to DPS earlier this year, which lets readers sample tablet editions via their web browser.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest I\u2019ve been kinda skeptical about the viability of high-gloss, tablet-oriented publications. In a world of Buzzfeed &amp; Flipboard, they\u2019ve struck me as nouveau CD-ROMs. I\u2019m pleased to see that evidently I\u2019ve been wrong. Check out some recent findings from Adobe: The number of downloads of magazine editions created with DPS since its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}