WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

Edwin Tofslie created this Apple product timeline.

Click here to see it bigger.

iPhone pictures on Flickr: 9,214 (8:45 a.m., New York time)

UPDATES:

11,881 at 9:30 p.m., NYT, Friday, June 29.

20,241 at 11:30 p.m., NYT, Saturday, June 30.

23,071 at 11:15 p.m., NYT, Sunday, July 1.

AP reports:

Thousands Queue Up to Buy Apple iPhones

People armed with sleeping bags and folding chairs started lining up on Monday outside Apple’s flagship store in New York City, but in the company’s San Francisco Bay area backyard, residents apparently took a more laid-back approach and didn’t start queuing up until Thursday.

(Flickr pictures from San Francisco yesterday night and from New York’s 5th Ave. Apple Store)

The new film and the last Harry Potter book.

The London Times has published what they are calling the first review of the “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” film.

Giving it 3 out of five stars, the review was based on seeing the premiere in Tokyo, Japan.

Amazon calls the new book the one of the “Most Eagerly Awaited Books of All Time.”

What’s next?

Pottermania.

This was the reaction of the market in January 2007 after Apple announced the launch of the iPhone.

They are more astonished than ever.

Words from the CEO of Palm:

“I’ve never seen the kind of feeding frenzy we’ve seen in the media,” Ed Colligan said.

“We expect it to be a very successful product, but I don’t know how it can possibly live up to the hype.”

Read here their first reactions.

The Chicago Tribune interviews some of the leading editors of American magazines.

Some quotes:

“While I do think online content could overtake newspapers, I believe that print magazines – because they are less ephemeral and more enduring, because they are more beautiful, because they offer perspective and amplify what people get elsewhere – will not be overtaken in the same way as newspapers,” Time managing editor Richard Stengel said by e-mail.

Here are some of the things Stengel and other top editors told us in e-mail responses about trends, the Internet and other influences in the world of print magazines.

-Bob Cohn | Executive editor | Wired

PRINT VS. ONLINE: “First, we’ll watch and learn from the newspaper industry, which faces much more serious and imminent competition from the Web. Beyond that, magazines have at least three things going for them: The marriage of design (lush photography, cool typography, inventive illustration) and words is much harder to capture online; your screen – whether it’s a cell phone or a desktop or a tablet – is a lousy way to read long-form journalism; [and] the magazine is the ultimate form factor – portable, rollable, tearable. Physicality is good.”

-Richard Stengel | Managing editor | Time

TRENDS: “I think we’re exemplifying one trend, which is a cleaner, more navigable design, and a more premium feel. Magazines go into people’s homes, and, at least for a newsmagazine, it needs to feel timely and timeless – in a sense, it’s like doing a monthly that comes out weekly.”

MORE TRENDS: “Of course, the other trend that is ubiquitous is how to transition magazine content online. I more and more think that online readers don’t want print translated into digital content – they want content unique to the online medium. So, for us, it’s how do you translate the qualities of the brand … into unique content for our Web site, which is now 24/7.”

-Janice Min | Editor in chief | Us Weekly

INFLUENTIAL EDITORS: “One of the most influential editors – and I’m not just saying this because I work for him – is [Rolling Stone founder] Jann Wenner. … And secondly, I’m just going to say a name everyone else says: David Remnick. Even if you aren’t reading his magazine, the New Yorker is so well-regarded that it’s the only magazine where intelligent people feel deep, existential shame if they don’t have a subscription.”

PRINT VS. ONLINE: “Online will eat into print, but it will never destroy it. Until people want to take laptops to the beach, there will always be room for magazines.”

-Will Dana | Managing editor | Rolling Stone

TRENDS: “To me, the big rule right now is that you can’t be bland and you can’t suck. There is a huge rush in the industry to think of your publication as a brand, and then extend that brand onto platforms. This is obviously a crucial thing to be doing, but in all this thinking about how you are going to reinvent yourself, you had better not forget about what got you established in the first place.”

PRINT VS. ONLINE: “Print will continue to be the primary engine of the magazine business, as long as we continue to offer great stories, great photography and great editorial packages.”

-Bill Falk | Editor in chief | The Week

TRENDS: Shorter stories, especially in the front of the magazine. More emphasis on perspective and commentary, and less on original reportage, scoops , and long-winded essays. Downsizing of staffs.

PRINT VS. ONLINE: “Readers still find print magazines more convenient, more portable , and more pleasurable to read. At The Week, we recently found this out the hard way, when we ran an online-only issue as an advertiser-driven promotion to coincide with Earth Day. I was inundated with angry e-mail from subscribers who said they loved reading The Week while commuting, in bed or on the toilet.”

-Cindi Leive | Editor -in chief | Glamour

If you understand Portuguese, watch this video clip of Rodrigo Lara Mesquita, one the new media visionaires of this world.

Rodrigo is also one of our best friends.

He and his family, owners of O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazil, were the first clients of INNOVATION.

Born in São Paulo, he is a journalist who studied in the École des Hautes Études (Paris, France), and was the director of Agência Estado (AE).

A former president of the Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, he now is the driving force behind RadiumSystems-Peabirus, and the Brazilian representative of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project.

From a great, long interview with Rupert Murdoch in Time magazine:

“They’re taking five billion dollars out of me and want to keep control,” Rupert Murdoch was saying into the phone, “in an industry in crisis! They can’t sell their company and still control it — that’s not how it works. I’m sorry!”

In case of doubt, just compare.

From: Steve Jobs
Date: June 27, 2007 1:47:55 PM PDT
Subject: Town Hall Meeting Tomorrow

Team,

We’re launching the most revolutionary and exciting product in Apple’s
history this Friday. And given Apple’s legacy of breakthrough
products, that’s saying a lot.

I’d like to get together and share my thoughts about this amazing
moment for our company. So please join me for a company-wide
communications meeting tomorrow, Thursday, at 11:00 AM in Town Hall.

This meeting will also be broadcast to other Apple campus locations.
Please check XXXXXX for details.

See you there,

Steve

(Via Engadget)

UPDATE: Read a summary of the meeting here.