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4:40AM Joel Johnson | What is it in France they say? “America contributed three things to culture: jazz, musical comedy and comic books.” You can already buy two on iTunes. And if things pan out, you’ll get the third on the Apple tablet. More »
Apple Tablet Will Return Comic Books To Former Glory
4:40AM Joel Johnson | What is it in France they say? “America contributed three things to culture: jazz, musical comedy and comic books.” You can already buy two on iTunes. And if things pan out, you’ll get the third on the Apple tablet. More » 
Gadgets
Apple Pitches Tablet To Australian Media
12:26AM Rosa Golijan | There’s excitement that Apple is in talks with Australian media companies to get content for a touchscreen reader-style product. It’s not news to us, but at least there’s a laugh in the size details given for the mystery device… More »
Software
Conde Nast Thinks You’ll Buy Mags As iPhone Apps, $US3 A Piece
7:08AM Wilson Rothman | People bitching that B&N and Amazon charge $US10 for sweet lengthy timeless novels get ready: Conde Nast wants to sell monthly ad-supported magazines, rejiggered for your iPhone, for $US3 each, starting with December issue of GQ. More »
Business
Walmart’s War On Amazon Hurts Publishing Industry (Even More)
12:38AM Matt Buchanan | “If there is going to be a ‘Wal-Mart of the Web’, it is going to be Walmart.com,” says Walmart.com CEO Raul Vazquez. This “Amazon” thing is royally mucking that up, and Walmart’s not gonna take it anymore. More »
Random Stuff
Conde Nast Closes Four Magazines, Focusing On Digital Distribution
11:00AM Jason Chen | Normally the closure of two bridal magazines, a dining magazine and a mum magazine wouldn’t be notable; except that this time their publisher, Conde Nast, notes that they’re going to focus on digital distribution instead. More »
Screens
Using The Red One And 5d Mark II To Create Living Magazines
10:20AM Adam Frucci | Magazines are going down the crapper as a medium, but the crew at Alexx Henry photography envisions a world where OLED and eInk screens put motion into mags and makes them cutting-edge. More »
Online
Time’s “Hulu For Magazines” Idea Is So, So Doomed
2:40AM Matt Buchanan | Magazines are basically f–ked. They know this, and figure the only way they’re going to survive is if they manage to successfully navigate the transition to digital. Time’s grand plan? A “Hulu for magazines”. Oh boy. More »
Online
Kindle Author Lands Deal In Obsolete Ink-and-Paper Format
6:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Author Boyd Morrison wrote and uploaded a book called The Ark, pictured, to Kindle, and found such success that he has now signed a two book deal with Simon and Schuster in that weird, dying papery format your grandparents like. More »
Gadgets
Electronic Newspapers Get Closer: Plastic Logic E-Newspaper To Be Unveiled
9:31PM Kit Eaton | Forget namby-pamby flickering e-ink displays: if Plastic Logic’s upcoming electronic paper tech is any good it might actually be the way of the future for newspapers. Due to be unveiled today, Plastic Logic’s unnamed device is the size of a sheet of copier paper, about two and half times the screen real-estate of Amazon’s Kindle, and is actually aimed at a business environment. But “newspapers is what everyone asks for” says Plastic Logic’s CEO: and this makes great sense since the size of the screen would give it a more “authentic” newspapery feel. The plastic-screened gizmo weighs 57 grams more than the Kindle, and yet is one third its thickness (as you can see from the image—it’s on the left.) We’ll have to see how capable the device is when it’s revealed… and, more importantly, find out how much it costs. Update: some more data has surfaced. More »
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