A year is a very long time in publishing
Share Here is a brief section of an interview by AnnArbor.com with Borders CEO Mike Edwards about the ongoing bankruptcy, and his surprised reaction to how fast e-books and tablets have impacted the publishing industry. AnnArbor.com: With e-books, how fast do you see the transition occurring? Are you surprised by how fast it’s occurring already? Edwards: Yes. I joined the company just a little over a year and a half ago. When I joined, e-books were less than 1 percent of the market. The Kindle was out but it didn’t have the traction. The Nook had just been released. The Apple product...
read moreKafka-esque iTunes Tweetie 1.3 flip flop at the app store leaves some questions…
The byzantine mechanism by which new iPhone apps are approved for listing in the iTunes App store has always been a subject of somewhat derisive musings among Apple’s many fans. Yesterday however, the story reached Kafka-esque proportion when Apple rejected an upgrade to Tweetie, arguably the most popular iPhone Twitter app. The reason given was profanity, which they had noticed in a screen shot that displayed a dynamically generated has tag list. (see image) The truly amusing thing is that Loren Brichter, the developer of the app, did not provide the offending screen shots to Apple,...
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