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By the end of this week, thousands of users will receive their iPad. Once they are able to fully enjoy and test their Apple Tablets to the fullest, the internet will be alive with analysis and reviews. Yet, even before its first delivery, the iPad continues to influence the design and implementation of e-books and magazines. Let’s take a look, shall we?

It’s safe to say that many media publishers are focused on creating new streams of revenue. But how many media revenue models can there be and how do you identify the one that works best?

Ross Dawson, author and blogger, has been working to create a Media Revenue Models framework in an effort to give companies a sample of what is available.

Did you work on your high school newspaper or yearbook? If so, there’s a new club in town. No tryouts necessary. All you have to do is sign up and those days of dreaming about being your own publisher are over. Thanks to the Newspaper Club, a new London-based startup, anyone can print their own 12-page newspaper.

There are indications that e-books and the reading devices, like Kindle and the Nook, are becoming more mainstream and as a result they are having an interesting impact on the way we interact with content, both online and in print.

As we await the official announcement of the Apple tablet, the silence and unanswered questions has given us time to ponder the ways that the Apple tablet may impact the future of ePublishing.

This week we bring you web vs print. The match of the new millenium.

Once, all that was needed to identify a mom was her jeans. Now, it's her twitter handle.

New research presented by BabyCenter has introduced the 21st Century Mom. She spends more and more of her time online within the realms of social media. 

The report points to how moms are using social media. It also tells us how they are not using other forms of traditional media, like newspapers and magazines.

Mochila has been quiet for a few months, but they have emerged recently to announce a new partnership with GlobalPost.com that chose Mochila to be the principal architect and developer of its website, which launched January 12. Mochila already distributes GlobalPost.com's content via their online media marketplace which works to syndicate a plethora of premium news articles, videos and photos.

While Mochila definitely deserves attention for being selected, the real focus of the initiative is GlobalPost. The online international news gathering and syndication service aims to "exploit powerful global demographic, political and economic trends by creating the only Internet journalism site devoted exclusively to international news and related content."

For every mob of journalists shrieking about the demise of print, there is this guy: Joshua Karp. He's the founder and funder of The Printed Blog, the "world's first" daily newspaper comprised entirely of blogs and other user-generated material.

Sure, the concept of producing output based solely on the work of citizen journalists has been done before, but this times it's different. Karp is taking things off of the web and putting them in print.

These days many in the publishing are just trying to stay afloat from one week to the next. This week is no exception.

Though the changing US political landscape has instilled hope among the masses, there’s little to go around in the print industry as of late.

Lots of lay-offs are impending and merges between print and digital media are inevitable.