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Archive for September, 2010
At the end of my post on the first issue of Longshot, I was complaining about how I was having trouble finding some good things to read on the MagCloud iPad app, and it’s only now I find out that both issues of Michael Bojkowski‘s excellent self-published LineRead magazine — through his Press Publish imprint [...]
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This article was posted on September 20, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: iPad, LineRead, Magazines, MagCloud, Michael Bojkowski, Press Publish, Technology
I rather like Nick Bilton‘s tech coverage for The New York Times — he runs the Bits blog — and this week he has a new book out called I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works. I quite want to read the book, but the reason I bring it up here is [...]
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This article was posted on September 20, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: App, Books, I Live in the Future, iPad, iPhone, New York Times, Nick Bilton, Technology
So far things have been relatively quiet on the magazine front when it comes to major releases on the iPad, and we’ve been mostly limited to Dentsu’s MAGASTORE, which is basically a Japanese version of Zinio, with the same functionality (but none of the “enchanced” media functionality that is popping up more and more in [...]
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This article was posted on September 20, 2010 under the category Reviews, and covers the following topics: Conde Nast, iPad, iPhone, Magastore, Magazines, Technology, Vogue Hommes Japan, Vogue Nippon, Zinio
Another follow-up post, this time to what I mentioned at the end of my look at the new Graphic.ly comic reader, and what I’d like to see happen with digital comics. Warren Ellis adds a few more thoughts on what could really make these work for indie creators. When creators who matter to me start [...]
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This article was posted on September 17, 2010 under the category Comics, and covers the following topics: Comics, Digital Comics, Graphic.ly, Technology, Warren Ellis
Wanted to follow-up my recent post on “The Death of Tachiyomi.” Some readers may have taken the bombastic post title a bit too literally, thinking that suddenly Japan had turned into on anti-browsing state. As I wrote in the post, not only was this something I spotted in just one 7-11, like I said, even [...]
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This article was posted on September 17, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: 7-11, Alastair Townsend, BAKOKO, Magazines, Tachiyomi
So far your main option for buying and reading comics on the iPad as been the Comixology app, and its suite of publisher-specific spinoffs (Marvel, DC, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, etc.) As Warren Ellis pointed out yesterday, there’s a new challenger out — something we definitely need, competition is good — in the form of [...]
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This article was posted on September 15, 2010 under the category Comics, Reviews, and covers the following topics: App, Comics, Comixology, Graphic.ly, iPad, Technology, Warren Ellis
Tachiyomi is a Japanese term that means reading as you stand, and it’s certainly something you tend to see a lot of when you walk into a convenience store here. Over the years I’ve been seeing more and more stores keep the magazines tied with plastic wrap to prevent reading — or also to keep [...]
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This article was posted on September 15, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: 7-11, Convenience Stores, Magazines, Tachiyomi
You may have noticed the latest issue of Wallpaper, featuring guest editors David Lynch and Robert Wilson — it even has a fancy interactive cover. Although Wallpaper doesn’t have a proper iPad edition — they only have an iPhone app that acts as an interface for its website’s content — this issue will introduce an [...]
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This article was posted on September 13, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: David Lynch, iPad, iPhone, Magazines, Robert Wilson, Technology, Wallpaper
Good news for those of us who can’t afford the beautiful — but $80 — Designing Obama book by Scott Thomas, which covers how design was brilliantly used during the Obama campaign (Thomas was the campaign’s design director). The project was funded through Kickstarter earlier this year, and with the print version now shipping, we [...]
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This article was posted on September 13, 2010 under the category Books, Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: Books, Designing Obama, iPad, Kickstarter, Scott Thomas, Technology
Many longtime gamers — myself included — have been very excited to see the return of Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) this year, both as a print publication and in the form of a new digital spinoff called EGMi, which comes out weekly and features original content. Without getting into the long publishing history of the [...]
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This article was posted on September 11, 2010 under the category News, and covers the following topics: EGM, EGMi, Electronic Gaming Monthly, iPad, Kane & Lynch 2, Magazines, ScreenPaper, Steve Harris, Technology, Zinio