07/30, 1:00pm
News Corp could commit whole group to tablets
News Corp could soon start up a division dedicated solely to publishing on the iPad and other tablets, insiders said Friday. The company will decide whether or not to move ahead by the fall and would produce content specific to tablets rather than simply reprint magazine and newspaper material. FT contacts understood that the group would get all-new staff and would only borrow the resources, not the articles, from established print publications.
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06/14, 3:20pm
News Corp buys Skiff reader, makes new investment
News Corp on Monday announced it has purchased the 3G-connected Skiff e-reader from Hearst and invested in Journalism Online, a venture meant to help online newspapers, magazines and publishers to collect revenue. The financial details of either transaction were not revealed. Put in charge of these two initiatives was Jon Housman, whose title is now President of News Corporation's digital journalism initiatives. Housman worked to finalize the deal over the past year.
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01/15, 10:05am
LG 19in e-ink largest ever
On Thursday in Seoul, LG Display announced the development of a 19-inch e-paper display that is very flexible, though cannot be totally folded. The monochrome display is just 0.01 inches (0.3mm) thick and has a TFT array and a thin metal foil that helps it recover its original shape. The ePaper display otherwise measures 9.8 by 15.7 inches and uses similar technology to the 11.5-inch Skiff reader, the screen of which will also be manufactured by LG Display.
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01/04, 4:05pm
Hearst Skiff previewed ahead of CES
Publisher Hearst today provided firmer details of the Skiff Reader, its self-produced e-book device. The new model is one of the largest e-book readers ever at 11.5 inches and provides a 1200x1600 touchscreen display better suited to magazines and newspapers. Its use of e-paper is equally new: rather than glass, it uses an LG-made flexible steel foil that resists shattering.
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12/04, 10:30am
Skiff to offer multi-platform digital publishing
Hearst today provided details of a new digital publishing system it hopes will make digital text more widespread. Skiff will have a store as well as an underlying gateway that lets Hearst and other firms both collect ad revenue from all their sources as well as adapt the same book, magazine or newspaper to a variety of formats. A single work could be reformatted to work with an iPhone, dedicated e-book readers or even tablet devices.
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