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The Short Story is Not Dead!

October 26, 2010October 27, 2010 Pete Chapman book, David Malki, Dinosaur Comics, eBook, indie publishing, Machine of Death, Ryan North, webcomics, Wondermark4 Comments

Book Publishing D.I.Y. Yes, these guys want you to buy their book…today. A flash mob bestseller…can it be done? Taking their cues from the indie comic publishers, a brave band of editors, writers and illustrators are launching a short story anthology, “Machine of Death“, to make a point to the big publishing guys. Read any good books lately? If not, then check out the MoD site for an entertaining rant about why that might be. Originally inspired by an episode of Ryan North’s Dinosaur Comics, MoD is edited by North,…

The iPad: Did Apple jump the shark, or is it a tablet for the masses?

January 28, 2010January 29, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, eBook, Gaming, iPad, netbook, tablet10 Comments

Well, iPad day has come and gone, and with it the dreams of many an Apple fan, if our internal emails here at rgbFilter are any indication. In the weeks leading up to the announcement of the new iPad, there was all kinds of rampant speculation. Will it be iPhone OS, or OS X? How big will it be? Will there be a stylus? Will it magically kill both other ebook readers and netbooks in one fell swoop? If you followed the standard commentary, not just in the tech press,…

Top publishers aim at digital distribution

December 8, 2009December 10, 2009 Doug Groves AP, Associated Press, Conde Nast, eBook, eReader, Hearst, magazine publishers, magazines, NewsCorp, publishers, publishing, Time Inc3 Comments

Imagine reading a headline like “5 top publishers plan rival to Kindle format” from the Associated Press, and it started off like this… Five of the nation’s largest publishers of newspapers and magazines plan to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own digital format that would display in color and work on a variety of devices. You’d think that big name ‘old media’ was about to play hardball, especially if you kept reading it. The article continues to make confusing references to a ‘Kindle challenger’. This lead me…