More on digital sales from U.S. MPA event, in an aricle on Foliomag.com (see below)
http://www.foliomag.com/2012/mpa-digital-swipe-publishers-see-gains-tablet-efforts
Some key observations include:
By 2014, it’s estimated there will be 89.5 million tablets users in the United States; this represents 27.7 percent of the total population
- Currently, the iPad (which sold over 3 million units of its third incarnation after its launch last week) makes up 83 percent of the U.S. tablet market
- Conde Nast’s president, said, “We have a $15 million business that came out of nowhere, that we didn’t have last year.”
- Future Publishing’s UK division saw a $1 million increase in new revenue after the Apple Newsstand launch
