Apple Introduces New iPads, Macs (USA Today)
Apple offered few surprises but plenty of new hardware and software on Thursday.
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iOS or OS X? It Doesn’t Matter… (GigaOM)
Apple signaled this change a few years ago and now you can see the fruits of its labor: It matters less if you use a low-cost phone, mid-priced tablet or expensive computer to get things done thanks to hardware, software and the cloud.
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Are Publisher Advances Truly Critical? (The Digital Reader)
The argument against Amazon seems to rest on the proposition that if trad-pubs aren’t awarded excess returns, over and above the actual free-market value of their products, then there will be no money to pay authors to write “serious literature,” irreparably harming our culture and society.
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Executives to Transform McSweeney’s Into a Non-Profit Organization (GalleyCat)
The executives behind McSweeney’s intends to transform the company into a nonprofit. The independent publishing house was launched in 1998 as a for-profit business.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Three books from the Atticus Fish series (and more)
