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Renee Xin

NewsFactor Network | Patent and Publishing Links Stir Apple Tablet Speculation - 0 views

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Internet Digital Ebook Publishing

shared by Renee Xin on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Renee Xin on 06 Oct 09
     
    "An Apple, Inc. patent application for new forms of multi-touch and secret meetings with publishers are fueling speculation about an Apple tablet computer to "redefine print." An analyst said a touchscreen Apple tablet could be a "killer application" for reading. The emphasis for an Apple tablet could be on interactive magazines and textbooks."
yunju wang

Apple Says it Isn't Interested in eBooks, But It's Now Selling an iTunes LP Comic Book - 0 views

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shared by yunju wang on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link).
  • The book comes with a number of extras, including a 23-minute making-off video, alternate covers, concept art, wallpapers, and optional voice-over narration and sound effects
  • yunju wang on 12 Sep 09
     
    While Steve Jobs just told the New York Times' David Pogue that Apple isn't interested in creating a single-purpose eBook reader and that he doesn't think that eBooks are a big enough market right now, one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link). Mayhem! was first released as a three-issue mini-series earlier last month
  • HUANHUAN XU on 12 Sep 09
     
    My question will be: what is the difference between the multimedia ebook and the mini laptop?
yunju wang

Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by yunju wang on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
  • Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
  • For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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  • For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
  • books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon, enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
  • yunju wang on 08 Sep 09
     
    Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
Sandra Rivera

Kindle versus Touchtablet: buy now or (i)wait? - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

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  • Sandra Rivera on 28 Oct 09
     
    Andrew Keen writes about whether to buy the Kindle now or wait for the appearance of the Apple touchtablet device rumored to be released early next year
anonymous

Magazines Struggle On The iPhone - Forbes.com - 0 views

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Apple eMagazines Publishing Digital Media

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  • anonymous on 20 Oct 09
     
    A star-studded attempt at launching an iPhone-only magazine stalls. Are people willing to pay to read on their iPhones?
HUANHUAN XU

Microsoft opens store as Windows 7 launches - 0 views

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shared by HUANHUAN XU on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
  • HUANHUAN XU on 23 Oct 09
     
    Hoping to match rival Apple's successful foray into retailing, Microsoft opened its first store in Scottsdale, Arizona on October 22, 2009
anonymous

john scott personal pr.: the new architecture- web 2.0 - 1 views

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Blog Apple Google Digital Publishing Media Sydney

shared by anonymous on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Nov 09
     
    Blog about the changing nature of media in the digital age.
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