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Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads

Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in what it said was the start of a product purge intended to make the floundering Internet pioneer more nimble.

Technology / Internet

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Amazon announces it’s ready to accept e-books in new KF8 format

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amazon has announced that it is now ready to allow publishers to submit e-books to its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) site in what it is calling Kindle Format 8 (KF8). Doing so will allow publishers ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

US class-action ebook price-fixing suit can proceed

A judge Tuesday allowed a class-action case to proceed against Apple and six publishing houses alleging a price-fixing scheme for electronic books, citing "ample" indications of a conspiracy.

Technology / Business

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EU court: Web sites need not check for IP breaches

A European Union court ruled Thursday that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install general filters to prevent the illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Last entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica book form

Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Los Alamos researchers create 'map of science'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science—a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Friend or foe? Google, indie book sellers team up

(AP) -- Struggling neighborhood books stores now have a new way to ring up sales, courtesy of a formidable new rival - Google. But it still may not be enough to help them keep their doors open.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

US sues Apple, publishers over e-book prices

(AP) -- The government says avid best-seller readers who use electronic books have been getting ripped off. Tina Fey's "Bossy Pants," Tim Tebow's "Through My Eyes" and Keith Richards' `"Life" - maybe they ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 19

Apple's got its eye on mobile games

In the eye of the typical beholder, Apple's iPhone is simply a popular device, great for fun, on-the-go applications-and phone calls.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 17, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Google, publishers near settlement in books case

Google and publishers told a US judge Thursday they are close to settling a lawsuit over the Internet giant's controversial book-scanning project.

Technology / Internet

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Fujitsu shows off next-gen color LCD eReader

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently the screens of e-readers come in two colors, black and white. While the Nook does have a color version out but that screen is an LCD and not an e-ink. While for a while that did ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Google hopes readers will 'flip' over new format

(AP) -- Google Inc. is testing a new format that is supposed to make reading online stories as easy as flipping through a magazine, a shift that eventually could feed more advertising sales to revenue-starved ...

Technology / Internet

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Kindle lets students rent digital textbooks

Amazon.com on Monday began letting students rent textbooks on Kindle electronic readers.

Technology / Other

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Apple unveils digital media subscription service

Apple, in a move long awaited by publishers seeking new sources of revenue, unveiled a subscription service on Tuesday for digital newspapers and magazines purchased through its online App Store.

Technology / Business

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases authors may be their own publishers, meaning: originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content.

Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works such as books (the "book trade") and newspapers. With the advent of digital information systems and the Internet, the scope of publishing has expanded to include electronic resources, such as the electronic versions of books and periodicals, as well as websites, blogs, video games and the like.

Publishing includes: the stages of the development, acquisition, copyediting, graphic design, production – printing (and its electronic equivalents), and marketing and distribution of newspapers, magazines, books, literary works, musical works, software and other works dealing with information, including the electronic media.

Publication is also important as a legal concept: (1) as the process of giving formal notice to the world of a significant intention, for example, to marry or enter bankruptcy; (2) as the essential precondition of being able to claim defamation; that is, the alleged libel must have been published, and (3) for copyright purposes, where there is a difference in the protection of published and unpublished works.

For more information about Publishing, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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