News Corp, Time and Condé Nast are among a coalition of major media firms getting set to announce an alliance to “prepare print publications for a new generation of digital devices”.
News of this purported alliance comes from the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal and suggests an announcement could be made as soon as today.
As well as Murdoch’s News Corp (home of The Times and The Sun), Condé Nast (publishers of Wired and Vogue) and Time, US publishing power houses Hearst and Meredith Corp are said to be involved in the new initiative.
Time recently demonstrated a version of Sports Illustrated on a tablet device while Condé Nast has demonstrated a digital version of Wired. Hearst has gone even further trailing a distribution system called Skiff. It’s unclear how these disparate trials might be pulled together by the proposed alliance.
We’ve heard in the past that Apple has been in talks with publishers to bring their content to the much discussed but never confirmed Apple Tablet. Could this coming together of the major publishers be yet another step in the road to the Apple Tablet?
TBA | £free | News Corp/Time/Condé Nast (via Wall Street Journal)
