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Original Kobo e-reader now supports newspapers, magazines

December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news

From the Kobo Blog: Today, we are pleased to announce – after much wait, that Newspapers and Magazines are now available for original Kobo eReader owners. You can now get the most popular newspapers and magazines downloaded on your Kobo eReader.

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Amazon extend 70% split to newspapers, magazines

November 8th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that magazine and newspaper publishers will soon be eligible to earn a larger share of revenue from each title they sell in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). For each magazine or newspaper sold, publishers will be able to earn 70 percent of the retail price, net [...]

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10 sites for creating digital newspapers

September 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news

I came across an interesting list on one of the blogs I follow. They found 10 sites that will help you create and or distribute a digital newspaper.  (It’s worth noting that I’m using a pretty broad definition of newspaper here.) Issuu – One of the most popular and successful online digital magazine creators/publishers around, [...]

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Newspapers gone by 2022 says futurist

August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

That’s the title of an article about futurist Ross Dawson in yesterday’s The Australian. I disagree with the prediction, and was all set to disprove it. But the body of the article doesn’t have the same extreme predictions. In fact, when you filter out the reporter we find that his predictions are actually rather mild. [...]

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We DON’T Need To Change Copyright Laws To Save Newspapers

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

Interesting post on Business Insider yesterday. The author argues that the hot-news doctrine needs to be strengthened so aggregators can’t link to news articles: Using aggregators like Google and others, I can access essentially in real time the lead paragraphs of almost any story from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or indeed any [...]

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Interpark adds newspapers, magazines to the Biscuit ebookstore

June 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

You might recall that I reported on the launch of the  Interpark Biscuit, a Korean e-reader, several months ago. The Biscuit (pictured) is a Kindle clone with 3G and an E-ink screen. When it was launched, Interpark had said that they wouldn’t have newspapers or magazines in the Biscuit ebookstore. Yesterday I came across this [...]

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Print Newspapers win out over online (Canada)

March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

From the Media Daily News: A new survey of Canadian adults in 53 media markets indicates continuing popularity for print newspapers north of the border, with a surprisingly low number of survey respondents only reading content online.The survey covered populations in markets served by a total of 81 Canadian daily newspapers (as well as 60 [...]

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Sony Add More Newspapers for the Daily Edition

March 11th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

I’m in the process of getting caught up on the things I missed while at the conference, and this is one of them. Sony issued a press release Wednesday and announced that the following periodicals are now available for the Daily Edition:

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