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1 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. 1 Sunday Book Review | Books of The Times Review 2 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy. 1 3 BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER, by Amy Chua.

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Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland Atlas, 216 pp., $24 via tnr.com Must translate, блин.

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Amazon today announced that Kindle for Android is the first Kindle app to receive an update that enables users to buy, read, and sync over 100 Kindle newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and many more. Kindle for Android users can now buy a single issue or subscribe to the most popular newspapers and magazines, have them automatically delivered to their Android-powered device, and enjoy a full color reading experience optimized for the touch interface of Android-powered devices.

All About News+ In December 2009, Bonnier launched Mag+, a format that quickly set a new standard for digital magazines. Mag+ got a lot of attention worldwide in the trade press and was called “King of the Hill” by Steve Jobs when Apple launched the iPad. The lessons learned from Mag+ have shaped the development of a new digital format for tomorrow’s newspapers: News+. News+ combines the depth and editorial choices of a daily newspaper with the web’s possibilities for interaction and quick updates.

In an acknowledgment of the growing sales and influence of digital publishing, The New York Times said on Wednesday that it would publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year. via nytimes.com Типа - свершилось. Шатцкин, кстати, резко критикует последний отчёт Forrester, и говорит, что $1 млрд — крайне заниженная оценка, поскольку методология хромает, не учитывая читателей электронных книг на компах.

Pricing for the Professional Edition is expected to be $699 per month plus a per-issue fee that scales according to volume. For that price, publishers can access the Digital Publishing Suite and create applications for all of their titles and publications. The Enterprise Edition is a custom, multi-year platform agreement that gives publishers access to technologies for integration of back-end services such as subscription management, print fulfillment, and e-commerce. Adobe also offers professional services to support enterprise level projects.

via mashable.com Если судить по видеоролику, Esquire for iPad выглядит даже симпатичнее Wired for iPad. Если верить статье, то он ещё и весит в 5 раз меньше и сделан ан HTML5, а не на PDF. Примечательно, впрочем, другое. Сделала журнал для Хёрста фирма ScrollMotion, которая уже выдала больше 10 тысяч книг-приложений для крупнейших мировых издательств.