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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Industry report after industry report tells us that printers of all sizes want to become photo book printers. Frank Romano and his students at RIT authored a report commissioned by Canon, The Insight Report: Digital Printing Directions (PDF Link), which indicated photo book printing is a key application for digital ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Adobe has made Inside the Publishing Revolution - The Adobe Story available as a free e-book in the Digital Editions Sample Library.
From the description:
Tech journalist Pamela Pfiffner explores the rich history behind the modern publishing revolution, as seen through the lens of one of its most important players. In the ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Newsweek online this week has an amusing item about “Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web,” a new book edited by Sarah Boxer, the first and now former web critic for the New York Times. Newsweek writer Brian Braiker asks,
“‘W,’ you might ask, ‘TF’? To what end this dead-tree blogroll? ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Penguin Books Ltd has launched a new online book community for teenagers called Spinebreakers:
Spinebreakers.co.uk is Penguin's pioneering online book community for teenagers, run by teenagers themselves. Editorial control of the site is in the hands of a core editorial team of nine teenagers aged between 13 and 18 years, supported ...
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Publishers Weekly has published an article about the trends of one of the world's all-time best sellers - The Bible. Bible sales are estimated between $425 million and $609 million. Events like 9/11 can cause a significant spike in sales but the Bible market as a whole has remained relatively ...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox, a book written by Charles D. Ellis was reviewed by James Michaels of Forbes yesterday. Joe Wilson took over from his dad in the late 1940s.
The 412, Xerox's first truly competitive product, would have to sell for $47,000 and was far too big ...
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