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Quark Announces New Strategies and Partnerships for Digital Publishing.
Quark (site, news) has been very busy this week, all in the name of digital publishing. At Untethered 2010, a digital media conference in New York that this year focused on Profitable Media in the Tablet Era, Quark announced a few initiatives aimed at making digital publishing more
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Web Publishing Roll-up: The FTC Reinvents Journalism
We’ve been contemplating the future of web publishing and journalism for sometime now, but recently the Federal Trade Commission decided to weigh in on the debate with a discussion paper that outlines potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism.
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Survey: Seeking Book Publishing Professionals
Are you a high or mid-level book publishing professional? Got something to say about eBooks and digital publishing? If so, CMSWire encourages you to participate in a “blueprint” survey from the Gilbane Group. The survey is one of the research mechanisms for their upcoming study A Blueprint for Book Publishing Transformation: Seven Essential Processes to Re-Invent Publishing and seeks to
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Web Publishing Roll-up: NYTimes Takes Its Pulse, Digital Trumps Print
This week in web publishing: the New York Times takes its pulse, energy management systems aim to rival the iPad and newspapers show results when they engage digital communities via innovative tools. New York Times Takes Its Pulse One of the most popular iPad apps is something called the Pulse News Reader, which
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Web Publishing Roll-up: Q1 2010 Newspaper Ad Revenue Gets a Boost, Paywalls Might Deter Youngsters
This week in web publishing: newspapers' first quarter 2010 results for advertising revenue, possible negative effects of paywalls on younger readers, Publish2 as a rival for the AP.
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Mobile Apps for Publishers to Sell, Promote Their Content
Authors need their own mobs, right? AuthorMob -- a new service that creates iPhone and iPad apps to promote authors and their eBooks -- unveiled itself this week at BookExpo America (BEA), North America’s largest book industry event.
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Web Publishing Roll-up: Yahoo and Forbes Buy Content Farms
This week in web publishing includes a few mergers and acquisitions, content farming and a fashion magazine designed for the iPad. The Magic of Macy's on the iPad Macy’s has proven to be an early adopter when it comes to the iPad. The company is using the Apple tablet
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Google Outlines Its AdSense Revenue Model
From the Pick Your Battles Department, Google has recently revealed its revenue-sharing practices for its two core AdSense advertising products: AdSense for Content and AdSense for Search. Motivation is Everything However, it’s not the actual numbers that are causing all the commotion.
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Web Publishing Roll-up: NYT Will Make You Pay, Amazon Splits Its List and Stanford Goes Bookless
They say desperate times call for desperate measures. Whether it’s a need for more revenue, better access or more space, this week in web publishing brings you several innovative solutions. Another New York Times Pay Wall If you’re a New York Times reader, use the next seven months to read
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Apple and Adobe in a Battle for the Mobile Web?
Microsoft vs IBM; Atari vs Commodore; Firefox vs Internet Explorer -- the biggest battles in computing pale into insignificance compared to the spat between Apple (news, site) and Adobe over Flash. The Pre-Fight Hype In the battle for Web standards, there is always friction, but rarely
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New Rules for Judging Content Quality Fails to Recognize Revenue
A few weeks ago Ben Elowitz, co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social websites, addressed the issue of quality in published content in two parts. First he went through the checklist of what traditionally made content great: credential, correctness, objectivity and craftsmanship and dismantled each one of them.
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Web Publishing Roll-up: Print, Digital and 48 Hour Magazines
Magazines dominate this week in web publishing. From print preferences, 48 hour creations and self-publishing, there's never a dull moment. Magazine Readers Still Prefer Print A recent poll finds that readers who still read the print version of their favorite magazine aren’t the crazy luddites we imagine them to be.
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iPad Perspectives: Magazine Publishers and Mobile Advertising
What’s a week without an iPad story? This week we approach the iPad from two perspectives -- from the purview of the mobile advertisers and magazine publishers. Both stand a great deal to gain from both the iPad itself and its proposed advertising model, iAd.
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Web Publishing Roll-up: A New Social Platform for Women Only, Goodbye Pay Walls?
This week web publishing brings collaboration among countries, an examination of pay walls, big and small and a French women's blog aggregator. A News Smorgasbord A European news partnership has emerged between Italy's Corriere della Sera and Holland's NRC Handelsblad, Germany's Spiegel Online and Denmark's Politiken. Spiegel Online
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