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The Surprisingly Sophisticated Computer Graphics Behind the 1977 Yellow Pages [Past Perfect]





They're a waste of paper these days, but back in 1977 the Yellow Pages were an essential communications tool. And in order to more easily produce ads so the thick tomes remained free, Bell Labs (now AT&T) ...
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Exclusive: Yahoo's Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving has turned in his resignation and it has been accepted by the company.
The process for Irving’s departure is a bit more formal since he is a top officer a...
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media

In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production company BermanBraun.
As part of the deal, BermanBraun will g...
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Leebre: a Jamendo-inspired platform for free ebooks
Commercial ebook publishing and distribution is a crowded space: Amazon, Apple, Google, Barnes and Noble and others each have stores and devices for digital books, which have been seeing consistent growth. Ebooks are undoubtedly the future of long-from co...
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Barnes & Noble Declares Wimpy War on Amazon Publishing [Books]





Some people still buy books—and even buy them in paper format. So Barnes & Noble's decision to block books published by Amazon is fightin' words! But how much does it matter, and who's getting hurt? ...
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Not the iPad 3 or New TV -- But Apple Planning Media-Related Event in the Big(ger) Apple This Month

According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.
Per the usual caveat, the tech giant i...
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The Amazon Tablet Will Be Filled With Magazines, So Many Magazines, Magazines Everywhere [Amazon]






Magazine publishers tripped over themselves to get on the iPad, because they thought they could sell you pretty things like this to revive their depressed print business, but then Apple was kind of a dick...
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How Ikea Redesigned Its Bookshelves for a Bookless World [Publishing]






Books aren't dead. Let's not even say they're dying, not yet. But physical books, the musty tomes you checked out from the library, are most certainly on the decline—to the point that Ikea has redes...
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Interactive Kindle Books Are My Kind of Nostalgia [Kindle]






I think we can all agree that if Shakespeare had been alive in the late-80s, he would've written Choose Your Own Adventure books. So thank you, Amazon, for bringing one of mankind's greatest literary genr...
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Amazon Is a Book Publisher For Reals Now [Amazon]






Tim Ferris, of 4 Hour [Insert Topic du Jour Here] fame, is putting out his next book through Amazon. But he's not using their self-publishing platform. He's the first writer to enter into their actual pub...
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This Is the Official Steve Jobs Biography Cover (And It's a Mistake) [Steve Jobs]






We knew what the front would look like, and now we've got the rear. And I can't help but think they got the entire thing completely backwards. More »






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Time Inc. Is Putting All Its Mags On (Almost) All Our Tablets By Year's End [Blip]


Time is getting ready to push all 21 of their magazines onto every tablet they can get to. That will include the iPad, Android tablets, the Touchpad, and Nook Color. The Kindle, strangely, and Playbook, less strangely, aren't invited. Mo...
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Kindle's Most Prolific Self-Publishers Are Spammers [Spam]






Amazon's Kindle hasn't just revolutionized the publishing industry by making dead tree tomes increasingly obsolete. It's also opened the door to thousands of self-made Shakespeares, self-publishers who se...
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The FT dodges Apple’s subscription fee with new Web app for iOS devices
How do you get around Apple’s 30% cut on publication subscriptions for iOS? If you’re the UK’s Financial Times, you abandon your native app and switch instead to a paid-for Web app.
Optimised for iOS devices, the new site is being sold o...
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The Glossy Paperless Magazine Subscription Dream Lives On [Ipad]


I've been seriously waiting to switch all of my mag subscriptions from dead trees and glue to glass and bits, and it looks like it's happening—major mag publisher Hearst is jumping on the iPad subscription train with Esquire, Popular ...
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ShelfLuv’s new design brings sexy back to book shopping [Invites]
We’ve covered ShelfLuv here on TNW before, praising it as “gorgeous, instant Amazon search” for books.  The ShelfLuv team has put its head down over the past several months to cook up a brand new version of the site with triple the featu...
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A Chart: The New York Times Paywall Is Screwed [Factoid]






This chart by Michael DeGusta says nearly everything that needs to be said about the Times' new plan to make you pay for it online. (Well aside from the fact that the NYT paywall is needlessly complicated...
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‘Digging into WordPress’ authors share self-publishing experiences
Chris Coyier, co-author of the popular WordPress guide Digging into WordPress with Jeff Starr, has published an article that goes into the many lessons and experiences the duo gained from self-publishing the book. The piece goes into printing, pricing, di...
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HarperCollins Forcing Libraries To Re-Buy Ebooks After 26 Checkouts [Video]






C'mon HarperCollins. C'mon. We know that books aren't flying off shelves like they used to, but you're not helping matters with policies like this—setting your ebooks to lock up after 26 rentals an...
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How to Use Movement in Web Design to Keep Visitors on Your Site
Sleek animations can help draw special attention to particular elements, actions, or content that might be important to people. It’s with movement we know an application in our docks is starting or that a webpage is still loading. With the right actions a...
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Rumor: World's Largest English-Language Publishing House Might Finally Join the iBookstore [Unconfirmed]


It's only speculation at this point, but it seems that Random House might finally be joining the iBookstore in the near future. Random House is the world's largest English-language publisher and the only one of the six major publishing hou...
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This 26-Year Old Makes Millions Writing Kindle-Only Books [Brilliant]






Amanda Hocking doesn't have a deal with a major book publisher. Just as well. Because the 26-year old author is making millions self-publishing through Kindle, selling 100,000 copies of her books each mon...
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Google OnePass Newspaper & Mag Subscriptions Are Publisher-Friendly, But Are They User-Friendly? [Video]






Apple launched its subscription service for reals yesterday. So Google's launching theirs today. It's called OnePass. It sounds pretty good: The idea is one login for subscribing to all of your favorite...
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Apple's New Subscription Model Is Evil [Apple]






Digital subscriptions for the iPad are here. Huzzah! Sounds pretty good! You can subscribe to the New Yorker or PopSci with one click, and it's automagically delivered. No in-app purchases; no muss, no fu...
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Will Apple Be Censoring Books, Too? [Apple]






We think of Apple as a lot of things. Maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads. Purveyor of music, videos and apps. But how do we feel about Apple as a publisher? More »






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Did Apple Just Neuter iPad Ebook Apps? [Apple]






Do you remember when everybody was worried what Apple's iBookstore meant for apps like Amazon's Kindle? The undercurrent of dread Apple would kneecap competing ebook stores the way it does iTunes competit...
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How Online News Evolved in 2010 [TNW Media]
News is changing – quickly. The way it’s researched, the way it’s reported and the way we access it are all evolving rapidly. 2010 could well be remembered as a key year in the history of online news. Here are the key reasons why.
The iP...
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Richard Branson Sees Murdoch's iPad Newspaper, Raises Him an iPad Magazine [Ipad]






Freewheeling, swashbucking business tycoon Richard Branson, never to be outdone by the stodgy, old media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, has announced plans for his own tailor-made iPad Magazine, following in the ...
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'Hulu For Magazines' Coming Early 2011, Only For Android [Publishing]


Next Issue Media, the tablet magazine storefront from the superfriends of publishing (Conde Nast, Time Inc, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp) will launch in early 2011 according to CEO Morgan Guenther, but it will only be available on Android de...
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Attention: The Web Is Not Public Domain [Internet]






Back in 2005, Monica Gaudio wrote a nice piece about apple pie recipes for a medieval cookery enthusiast blog. Five years later, her post appeared nearly verbatim—without compensation or permission&...
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Newspaper Publishers Still Hope Tablets Will Save Them [Tablets]






The NYT, WSJ and USA Today, are building special tablet-y apps for Samsung's Galaxy Tab, hoping to easily port the app over to other Android tablets. And the WSJ, knowing its core audience, wants all up o...
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The Sad Economics of an iPad Magazine [Ipad]






When you turn the latest Sports Illustrated iPad issue to the portrait position, like a book, nothing happens. Just an error message. That's because Sports Illustrated is too poor to offer it in anything ...
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Five Reasons Why Best-Selling Authors Are Going Direct [Publishing]






Many best-selling authors are going direct by publishing through epublishers instead of traditional publishing companies. Here's why. More »






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CT Attorney General Investigating Apple and Amazon Over eBook Pricing [Ebooks]


Citing "potentially anticompetitive ebook deals," Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating the relationship between Apple, Amazon and publishers. Blumenthal claims Apple and Amazon have struck exclusive deals with pu...
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Why You Can't Subscribe To Digital Magazines On Your iPad [ITunes]






The iPad was supposed to herald a new era in publishing. But the growing rift between Apple and Time Inc. shows that the early troubles clouding digital magazines have only gotten worse. So: is iTunes a m...
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The Man Who Wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo First Author To Sell a Million Kindle Books [Ebooks]


Stieg Larsson, the deceased Swedish author who wrote the all-of-a-sudden-very-popular books The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, has become the first author to sell a mil...
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Rockstar Games Approves $450 History Book [Games]






This book package will cost you $450, so unless you're a serious fan of (a) books or (b) the creative output of Rockstar Games, it's not for you. Digital + Analogue: The Art and Science of Rockstar Games ...
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Amazon: Paper Books Are Dead, Or Something [Amazon]






"Over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindl...
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Publishing eBooks: Kindle, iPad, Nook, Kobo? [Publishing]






There are many mediums for ebook publishing today. But how does a publisher or author choose which one to use? Or does he or she even have to choose at all? More »






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If You Buy an iPad Mag, It Might As Well Be Popular Mechanics [IPad Apps]






The latest big magazine iPad app is here: Popular Mechanics. It's very possibly the best. Though for now, it's a glorified beta test. More »






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Time Reinvents the iPad Magazine, Again [IPad Apps]






Time's original iPad magazine was not overly ambitious. But like I've said, just give it some time—a new "future of magazines" will show itself every week. And the new Time? Well, more impressive t...
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Popular Mechanics iPad App: The Future of Magazines, All Over Again [IPad Apps]






The Great iPad Magazine isn't here yet—but it's getting closer all the time. Popular Mechanics' app, set to launch next month, already looks like the new best magazine on the iPad. More &raq...
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Now Writers Can Submit Books to the iBookstore [Apple]


As previously teased, writers can now submit their own books to iBookstore. I can't wait to submit my Jane Austen fan fiction! And neither can Mr. Jean-Luc PicDarcy [iTunes Connect via MacLife] More »






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48 Hour Magazine: The Six Minute Movie [Movies]






48 Hour Magazine was an incredible project: thousands of contributors using online tools to produce a complete magazine in two days. First: read Joel's fascinating interview with the creators. Then: watch...
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Books Are Better Than Cigarettes, and This Vending Machine Knows It [Remix]






As the saying goes, the only thing more addictive than nicotine is a good book. Well if they're not saying it yet they will be soon, now that a German publisher is repurposing cigarette machines as book m...
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48 Hours, 1,000s of Contributors, 1 Magazine [Media]






Can you make a magazine in a weekend? Of course you can. But can you make it good? That's the question 48 Hour Magazine is trying to answer, using online media tools to make an old-school rag in two days....
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For Now, iPad Magazine Issues and Subscriptions Will Cost More Than Their Paper Equivalent [Media]






Apple priced digital downloads lower than CDs. Amazon said a digital book should be cheaper than a paper one. But for the time being, virtual magazines will cost a pretty penny, says Fortune. More ...
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Amazon Stabs Penguin in the Throat With Ebook Pricing for Real Books [Amazon]






Amazon? Not playing around with publishers when it comes to ebook deals. Penguin's contract ran out on April 1, so Amazon can't sell their ebooks. So Amazon's cut the price of Penguin's actual hardcovers...
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What the Leaked Apple iBooks Pricing Says About the Great Publishing War [Apple]






A leaked peek at bestsellers on Apple's iBooks reveals that the $9.99 ebook is very much alive, suggesting Apple does have the power to cut prices on bestsellers, and books publishers sell for less than t...
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Mind-Bending Video Proves that One Publisher Gets It [Publishing]






If publishing company Penguin's impressive iPad demos weren't enough to convince you, this extremely clever video (originally made for internal purposes) will show you that at least one part of the publi...
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