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From time to time I’ll post full posts that I write for Future Shop (that’s allowed now), but today, it’s just excerpts. Enjoy! Last week Nicholas Negroponte was quoted as saying that the physical book would be dead in 5 … Continue reading

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Wired Creates an iPad App and Brings the Digital Revolution to Magazines

Wired Magazine announced their iPad app today to want can only be called “great fanfare” among the geek set. From Chris Anderson’s post on the web version of the site: The arrival of the tablet represents a grand experiment in … Continue reading

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There is No iSalvation Coming

Mathew Ingram believes that pinning hopes on a tablet from any vendor will save the publishing industry is just wasted energy: As Om noted in a post about the Kindle HD, everyone talks about the iTunes model and the iPod, … Continue reading

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Canwest’s buyer has an opportunity for innovation

This is one of those times when the clichéd Tale of Two Cities quotes comes to mind. I’ll save you the pain and skip it. Yeah, we get it, newspapers as we know them are in trouble. Just like the … Continue reading

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Observe, Learn, Adapt, Flourish–All Publishing is at a turning point

I don’t buy terribly many books anymore, or magazines, and certainly not newspapers. A bit of an ironic statement from someone who’s first book comes out in January, but I don’t equate publishing with paper. I assume that my books … Continue reading

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Gutenberg was a blogger

We owe a huge debt to Johannes Gutenberg. Here’s a guy who just wanted to wrestle publication of The Bible out of the hands of The Church and monks and unwittingly (perhaps) set the stage for blogging. The movable type … Continue reading

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