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Archive for November 2009

Direct to Consumer Book Packaging

There is a new book out about disruptive business models called Business Model Generation (tagged as #BMG on twitter). True to its topic it was conceived, created, and distributed in a way that is proving disruptive to legacy book publishers — independently. Pshaw you say. Books are produced independently all the time. Not ones with [...]

The Magazine Issue as an App

An idea whose time has come. Distill’s third issue is an iPhone app. They skipped the print edition this month.

Off-line Web Reading On The iPhone Using Stanza

I spend a lot of time in the subway these days and that means lots of downtime with no internet connectivity. The “Open Location” feature in Stanza-For-Desktop has been a life saver.
Here is how it works:

The Kindle Now In Canada. No Carrier Deal. No Jasper.

Since last February I have been writing about the Kindle in Canada. Finally today Amazon announced they would sell the Kindle to us in the great white north. Great. So what took them so long? I reached out to both Amazon PR and Rogers for some answers.

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