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Like Dedicated e-Readers? Enjoy Them While You Can
If you like the dedicated e-reader, cherish it. There’s growing evidence that the e-reader is on its way out. As tablets have gotten smaller and less expensive, and smartphones have gotten bigger, the one-trick pony called the e-reader has gotten squeezed by its more capable siblings.
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Web Publishing Roll-up: NYT Will Make You Pay, Amazon Splits Its List and Stanford Goes Bookless
They say desperate times call for desperate measures. Whether it’s a need for more revenue, better access or more space, this week in web publishing brings you several innovative solutions. Another New York Times Pay Wall If you’re a New York Times reader, use the next seven months to read
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New Rules for Judging Content Quality Fails to Recognize Revenue
A few weeks ago Ben Elowitz, co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social websites, addressed the issue of quality in published content in two parts. First he went through the checklist of what traditionally made content great: credential, correctness, objectivity and craftsmanship and dismantled each one of them.
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iPad Perspectives: Magazine Publishers and Mobile Advertising
What’s a week without an iPad story? This week we approach the iPad from two perspectives -- from the purview of the mobile advertisers and magazine publishers. Both stand a great deal to gain from both the iPad itself and its proposed advertising model, iAd.
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Mobifusion Prepares to Launch MOBleReader
Last year, Mobifusion, a leading mobile value-added services provider and partner for media and publishing companies, released its Mobiviewer 2.5 multimedia platform. This month, the company has announced the imminent release of its new MOBIeReader. A Mobile eReader for Any Device Designed to perform on smartphones and PDAs
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eBook Publishing Trends: 70% Ready to Go Digital
The Frankfurt Book Fair is a popular global book extravaganza that not only sells books, but also serves as a cultural interchange across national borders.
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