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If You Are in the Magazine Business and You Are Not Excited About

["Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." - William Wirt (1772 - 1834)] Chris Keyes to Samir … Continue reading

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How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps

["Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep" - William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616) ] Two Become One: How Magazines … 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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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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Magazine Sales Decline In Second Half Of 2011/ The 25 Biggest

["Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)] Magazine Sales Decline In Second Half Of 2011/ The 25 Biggest Magazines At End Of 2011 Magazine … 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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On Creating An iPad Magazine Just For You (Yes, You)

["Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster … 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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