Text Messages Killing Radio Star
...e American media was fighting stagnant circulation with new techniques.
The Los Angeles Times, said publisher and president John Puerner, has started publishing a Spanish daily, Hoy, directed at the city's Hispanic youth in a bid to bring those readers to the Times as they get older.
The Times also ......more...Traveling Down the Memory Hole
...es after being told the United States was under siege, has become a popular Internet download. It's posted on The Memory Hole, a website dedicated to publishing official data that is hard to find, censored or in danger of being lost.
The owner of the site, Russ Kick, drew national attention last yea......more... 2001 Was a Tough Read for E-Books
...a tome waiting to be written, but judging by the opinions expressed here, there is no shortage of potential authors. M.J. Rose looks at the year in e-publishing.
By M.J. Rose
2:00 a.m. Dec. 25, 2001 PDT
It's been a difficult year for e-publishing, which shouldn't come as a surprise considering it's ......more... Boundless Books Abound
... treat e-books as just another rendering of previously published works in the same few broad categories, there is a surprising number of other houses publishing original and affordable e-books targeting adult and juvenile audiences, Grabois said.
More people to know: Finding the right contact became......more... E-Textbooks Offer Light Reading
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While the idea of a campus without books might seem to some as outlandish a notion as a museum without art, the university's four major educational publishing partners are watching the project closely to see how students and faculty will respond to an all-digital curriculum.
As print-bound textboo......more... New Accounting for Best-Sellers
...ll, John Wiley Sons, and Thomson, is providing many of its 90,000 students with electronic texts in Microsoft Reader.
We view e-books and electronic publishing as the next step in the evolution of higher education, said Dr. John Sperling, Apollo Group chairman and CEO.
In addition to the educationa......more... E-Book Forecast: Cloudy
...r of mounting hype, some are forecasting the death of e-books.
Maybe, maybe not.
While e-book sales will slide, digital textbooks and print-on-demand publishing will thrive, according to a recent study by Forrester Research.
Digital delivery of custom-printed books, textbooks and e-books will accoun......more... Nader: Al Isn't Net's Best Friend
...id not come from the Clinton/Gore administration, which was busy raising money from their friend Vance Opperman, then the CEO at legal publisher West Publishing, a company that opposed online access to public records.
Rather it was from Newt Gingrich, who proclaimed in 1994 that all Congressional do......more...
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