Multimedia: Esquire’s E-Ink Cover Inspires Hacker Community
Via FOLIO: By Dylan Stableford 10/14/2008 -14:11 PM Esquire’s much ballyhooed (and equally berated) electronic cover has spawned a mini-movement of YouTube-friendly hackers bent on manipulating its circuitry. (This is the kind of nerd-dom normally reserved for Make magazine meet-ups.) Below, some of the best attempts—including one enterprising geek who says he’s made over $200 selling his copies [...]No More Free ‘Zines: Mygazines Folds
Weeks after settling a copyright infringement lawsuit, the free magazine site Mygazines.com has gone out of business. To read the rest of this story, click here.Women’s Network Eyes Men
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Glam launches Brash.com targeting Maxim demographic.
By Jason Fell
10/20/2008
Glam Media, the women’s fashion and lifestyle portal launched four years ago Monday, is breaking into the men’s category with the launch of Brash.com, a vertical network of sites targeting men aged 18 to 49 years.
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Posted on October 19th, 2008 | leave a comment | trackback
BREAKING: Nielsen Reorganizes Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek
Nielsen Business Media today announced an editorial reorganization at its Adweek Media Group that will combine content development and distribution for Adweek, Brandweek and Mediaweek magazines under one editorial organization.Bowdoin Magazine Becomes First College Magazine to Go Digital With Zinio
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This month’s Bowdoin Magazine features an interview with Zinio CEO Rich Maggiotto (also a Bowdoin alum) about Bowdoin’s partnership with Zinio:
Full Interview with Zinio CEO Rich Maggiotto ‘96
The leader in a new and growing field, Zinio distributes digital versions of college textbooks and more than 1,000 of today’s top consumer magazines, such as BusinessWeek, US [...]
Posted on October 14th, 2008 | leave a comment | trackback
Economic Crisis Could Flatten Mobile Apps
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The bailout won’t help Apple’s AppStore and Google’s Marketplace sidestep cash-strapped developers and penny-pinching consumers.
by Lance Ulanoff
Every major new smartphone introduced over the past year or so—the Apple iPhone 3G, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1 (Google Android Phone) , and others—prominently features some kind of application warehouse that promises to propel the handheld device [...]
Posted on October 14th, 2008 | leave a comment | trackback
Zinio featured on Good Morning America
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On October 2nd, Zinio was featured as part of Sam Champion’s “Just One Thing” on Good Morning America.
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Posted on October 5th, 2008 | leave a comment | trackback
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper
The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation and decreased ad revenue from their paper product.Read full article.Publishing Vs. Digital
Today PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC) has released their report on the current state of the global publishing industry with a focus on the ongoing debate as to whether digital has spelt the death of print. Read full article.It’s the End of Publishing as We Know It
By Anders Bylund The usual suspects Hello, Mygazines.com. On that site, you’ll find digital copies of entire print magazines, with titles ranging from Playboy (NYSE: PLA) and Wired to Cosmopolitan and The Economist. Read full article.