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mediaIDEAS onPoint: App Store and Android Market Data

This mediaIDEAS onPoint chart shows App Store and Android Market activity for the month of October 2011. Recent data from Flurry shows that the 850,000 apps available on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market have been downloaded 2.6 Billion … Continue reading

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iPad App Subscriptions Grown Through Bundling / Tablets Help Publishers

["The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -Oliver Wendell Holmes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)] iPad App Subscriptions Grown Through Bundling http://www.mediabiznet.com.au/news/home.do?newsId=5510 … Continue reading

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Apple CEO Cook Tells Why Tablets Will Take Over

["That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity." - Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)] Apple CEO Cook Tells Why Tablets Will Take … Continue reading

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Hearst to Link Digital Editions With Amazon

["Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? Steve Jobs, The line he used to lure John Sculley as Apple's CEO" - US computer engineer … Continue reading

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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The New Revenue Revolution

["If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote "Tao Te Ching" (also "The Book of the Way"). 600 BC-531 BC)] Where Are You Going, … Continue reading

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Publishers are flubbing the iPad

["We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something." - Newt Gingrich (Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)] Publishers are flubbing the iPad By Alan Mutter Two years after the debut of … Continue reading

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How Libraries and Bookstores Became the New Community Centers

["Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered." - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)] How Libraries and Bookstores Became the New Community Centers by Michael Scott Bookstores and libraries have long played a central role in fostering a … Continue reading

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The Bookstores Last Stand

["A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." - Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )] The Bookstore’s Last Stand By: Julie Bosman The New York Times In March 2009, an eternity ago … Continue reading

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How Do We Identify Good Ideas?

["Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood." - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)] How Do We Identify Good Ideas? By Jonah Lehrer I’ve always been fascinated by the failures of … Continue reading

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Jonathan Franzen Is Wrong: Ebooks Are Good for Everyone

["The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - … Continue reading

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