Publishing

News

Barnes & Noble Declares Wimpy War On Amazon

2:30PM February 1, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Some people still buy books — and even buy them in paper format. So Barnes & Noble’s decision to block books published by Amazon is fightin’ words! But how much does it matter, and who’s getting hurt? More »

Software

Rolling Stone Is Coming To The iPad After All

5:40PM November 29, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

In a rather unexpected about-face, Rolling Stone’s parent company, Wenner Media, has announced that the iconic music magazine will soon be available on the iPad. But first, it’s porting The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide to Apple’s tablet — like this week. More »

Software

iOS 5′s Newsstand Is More Awesome Than You Think

2:30PM October 13, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The first wave of magazines supporting Apple’s Newsstand feature on iOS 5 went live today, which is good news. In theory, Newsstand isn’t that big of a deal. But using it, you realise it’s something more. More »

Computing

HP Wants You To Print Magazines With Your Home Printer

1:45AM October 13, 2011 | Casey Chan

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I think I learned that as a four-year-old. Apparently, HP and Condé Nast skipped out on that life lesson because they’re combining two dying things — print media and printers — to create the unholiest of unions: your HP printer at home will print out Condé Nast magazines for you to read. More »

News

Steve Jobs Remembered On Front Pages Around The World

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11:10AM October 7, 2011 | Elly Hart and Mario Aguilar

Thanks to Steve Jobs, it’s way more likely that you learned about his death from a smartphone than a newspaper, but editors all over the world paid tribute to Jobs’s impact with impressive, often sentimental, front pages. More »

Software

Amazon Tablet Will Be Filled With So Many Magazines

5:41AM September 27, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Magazine publishers tripped over themselves to get on the iPad, because they thought they could sell you pretty things like this to revive their depressed print business, but then Apple was kind of a dick about it. More »

Geek Out

How IKEA Redesigned Its Bookshelves For A Bookless World

10:40AM September 10, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Books aren’t dead. Let’s not even say they’re dying, not yet. But physical books, the musty tomes you checked out from the library, are most certainly on the decline — to the point that IKEA has redesigned its products to accommodate a world without them. More »

Software

Interactive Kindle Books Are My Kind Of Nostalgia

4:20AM September 10, 2011 | Brian Barrett

I think we can all agree that if Shakespeare had been alive in the late 1980s, he would’ve written Choose Your Own Adventure books. So thank you, Amazon, for bringing one of mankind’s greatest literary genre achievements to Kindle. More »

Software

Maxim Nixes iPad Vixens, As Privileged Youthful Horndogs Weep

5:55AM August 20, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Friends, the iPad just got 80 per cent less B-list-in-a-bikini-pretty. The lad magazine’s last HD issue came off the digital presses in June, meaning you won’t be able to fork over money to read about what a guy’s girl that pretty lady with two lines in that Judd Apatow movie trailer is. More »

News

Amazon Is A Book Publisher For Reals Now

2:03AM August 18, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Tim Ferris, of 4 Hour [Insert Topic du Jour Here] fame, is putting out his next book through Amazon. But he’s not using their self-publishing platform. He’s the first writer to enter into their actual publishing stable. More »