Thanks again to Jorgen for links to a digital news story that he’s been monitoring. The developments involve Rupert Murdoch making some moves to get a firm toehold in the growing digital newspaper industry and mark a casualty in the eBook Revolution.
Click here for a story at TabletPCReview that details Murdoch’s purchase of Skiff, LLC, and the e-reading platform developed by Hearst Corp. and designed to deliver premium content to tablet PCs, smartphones, eBook readers and netbooks. Murdoch recently started moving his online news services to a ‘paid content’ format so the Skiff platform’s ability to protect brand identity fits the program.
The other link takes you to CrunchGear’s eulogy for the Skiff Reader. Murdoch bought the Skiff software platform but passed on the physical device. Do you remember the Skiff Reader? I think it’s a beautiful piece of technology that will eventually return from the grave when digital publishing becomes secure enough that niche markets start to evolve that will need large format E Ink devices to deliver broadsheet content. The Skiff Reader was just ahead of its time.
