Tag: MAGAZINES

Besides the previously-unseen webOS 3.0 and introducing new hardware in the form of a tablet and two smartphones, HP had some other gems under its sleeves at today's Think Beyond event. Taking center stage at the event was HP's new TouchPad, its first webOS tablet. There was more on display than hardware of course. We now know the TouchPad will get an official Amazon Kindle application, that, ...

Last Christmas it was 120 years of National Geographic, and this year it's an equally beautiful but very different vista: 56 years of Playboy on a 250GB hard drive. That link is safe to click, but the online shop linked from there isn't. There are also some 'free samples,' if you want to check out the 'digital magazine' experience before you buy. The archive, which costs $299.95, features ...

Well, it's no Amazon Library, but the Kindle e-book platform will soon let users lend books to one another for a limited amount of time. You'll be able to loan out a book for up to 14 days at a time, and you won't be able to read the book while a friend is borrowing it. Not all books will support lending, though. Allowing or blocking lending will be up to the publishers and other ...

Major magazine publishers know they're in trouble. Mags have been shutting down all over the place during the past year, and the rise of blogs and eReaders continues apace. A group of publishers including Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp., and Time Inc. has combined to launch a digital delivery system for magazines that has been compared to both iTunes and the popular streaming TV site ...

Google's efforts to digitize the world's book collection have drawn the ire of some book publishers. So what's the next step? Digitizing magazines of course. Nobody ever got in trouble for doing that, right? But seriously, Google has announced that working with publishers, the company has digitized current and back issues of magazines including Ebony, Popular Science, and New York Magazine. You ...

Mygazines made a splash a few months ago by launching a service that lets you read your favorite magazines online - without paying. The plan might have worked if the company had, I don't know, partnered with magazine publishers to make free ad-supported versions of the magazine available. But that's not what happened. Instead, Mygazines encouraged users to scan their own magazines and upload ...

Want to keep up on the kind of news and cocktail party talk you can only get from long, detailed, and occasionally dry magazine articles, but don't have the time? Let Brijit do the reading for you. Brijit is a new magazine abstract service. The site includes 100 word abstracts (or shorter) describing the key points of articles from about 60 magazines, TV news programs, and newspapers. The ...

Over the last few decades, traditional print media like newspapers and magazines have witnessed a decline in circulation numbers. That is, fewer people have been reading printed publications, instead opting for other news delivery options like radio, cable stations and the web. There are many theories as to why this is the case. Some people say slanted, politically-lopsided news coverage is ...