"Serious news organisations have placed their bets. With Apple selling a million iPads in barely a month, paid iPad applications from the likes of the Times and the Financial Times line up on app stores with free offerings from the BBC and Thomson Reuters.

But already there are signs that native newsreaders like Flipboard for the iPad and LeNewz for the iPhone are stealing a march on the standalone offerings of news providers. Numbers may still be modest but design, usability and social integration all place them well ahead of individual apps. Flipboard (my own app of choice) visualises the content of links shared on social networks. In other words, it builds a newspaper out of things you know other people are reading because they are sharing them – every editor's nightmare."

"e value that news organisations used to get from owning their distribution and having advertising monopolies is not about to be recaptured by apps."