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Recovering Journalist: Apple’s Tabula Rasa

Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 09:08

Mark Potts: "it's important not to look at the forthcoming tablet through the prism of individual media types. Most of those speculating about Apple's tablet aren't thinking big enough. They're concentrating on narrow possibilities—it could be a book reader! It could play movies!—without seeing the much bigger picture of what Apple may be on the verge of creating. To its users, it will be: All Of The Above. And that's huge."

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NYTimes.com: Graphic: What Are You Reading on the Subway? Our Readers Respond

Saturday, 5 September 2009, 13:23

"By Friday, almost 6,000 readers had answered the question, 'What was the last book, magazine and newspaper you read on the subway?' Here are the top choices so far."

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Quill & Quire: Is Kindle the environmentally friendly option?

Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 10:36

"A recent report from the Cleantech Group analyzed the environmental impact of traditional publishing as measured against e-book publishing, and declared the latter to be the clear winner on environmental grounds. Calling the publishing industry “one of the world’s most polluting sectors,” the Cleantech report asserted that a concerted move to e-book publishing could drastically reduce the negative impact the industry has on the environment."

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Print Week: Book group dismisses e-paper threat

Saturday, 25 October 2008, 17:44

"CPI, the owner of the UK's largest group of book printers, has dismissed the threat of e-paper products … Mike Taylor, chief executive of CPI, said: "I don't see much of a future for these kind of devices. People like to have something they can, for example, take on the beach without the worry of battery life or lighting conditions."

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 Thursday, 14 February 2008, 16:10 0

"I don’t have a blogging bone in my body," the New York Times media critic [Sarah Boxer] admits to Madeleine Brand. "They are out there in a way that is phenomenally frightening to me."

 Sunday, 22 July 2007, 09:30 0

Reviews of "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina" and "
American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media".

 Saturday, 21 July 2007, 12:17 0

"A new book in the Gonzo journalism vein tries to explain to coastal elites what they’ve never understood about the working-class small towns in the middle of the country."

 Friday, 15 June 2007, 08:17 0

"Social-networking websites that connect people through their taste in literature are gaining in popularity – and publishers are starting to take notice."

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 Friday, 11 May 2007, 09:45 0

Andrew Marr on the pile of newsprint in his house: "The waste of time and space, as well as paper and transport, increasingly offends me." E-books might be the answer.