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Apple Unveils iPad Textbook Plan

At a special event in New York City, Apple rolls out a new textbook initiative and the partnerships to support it.

Daily Must-Reads, Nov. 23, 2011

The best stories across the web on media and technology


1. How SOPA would affect you - FAQ (CNET News)

2. Alexis Madrigal declares Friday "Update Your Parents' Browser Day" (The Atlantic)

3. Netflix will rely on rival Amazon's cloud for years to come (paidContent)

4. Challenge for publishers in 2012: funding tablet and e-reader product development (eMedia Vitals)

5. Education-specific HTML to...

iPad Magazine Readers to Publishers: More, Please

Publishers' hopes for the iPad and e-readers have come back to earth. But the people who actually download these things like them quite a bit, according to a new survey.

Barnes & Noble Rolls Out New Nook in New York

We've seen Amazon's Kindle Fire. Time for the competition to answer back.

Mediatwits #25: The 800 Pound Gorilla of E-Books: Amazon

The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism...

Best Coverage, Analysis of Amazon Kindle Fire Announcement

Amazon recently made waves by announcing its new Kindle Fire tablet, running a custom version of Android and starting at $199. Plus, there were the new Kindle Touch models in the mid-range and the low-cost Kindle, starting at $79 with ads....

A Brave New Book World: How Authors Become Entrepreneurs

A few years ago, I interviewed author Ron Carlson about his novel "The Signal." I asked him about his experience with his longtime editor, Carol Houck-Smith, who had recently died. He remembered back to 1977 when he had just signed a deal ......

Amazon Could Sell Five Million Tablets in Three Months

If it comes out at $300 or less this fall, says Forrester.

Fargo Kindle City: One small paper’s experiment with publishing ebooks

When you are a 50,000-circulation daily newspaper in Fargo, North Dakota, it would be easy to leave trying new things to the big guys. But that's not the attitude of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, which just rolled out its first feature-length series as a Kindle Edition. The series, Vistas and Visions: Microsoft in Fargo, is...

Mediatwits #8: LinkedIn’s Bubbly IPO; Grueskin on the New York World

Welcome to the eighth episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week's show looks at the big IPO of business networking...

Mediatwits #8: LinkedIn’s Bubbly IPO; Grueskin on the New York World

Welcome to the eighth episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week's show looks at the big IPO of business networking...

Mediatwits #8: LinkedIn’s Bubbly IPO; Grueskin on the New York World

Welcome to the eighth episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week's show looks at the big IPO of business networking...