Tag: PRINT

The Washington Post has recently stepped into the e-publishing trade with its own iPad app, but, according to the paper's new commercial, all of its journalists are totally dumbstruck to be living in a post-print 2010. (See it after the break.) The ad begins when someone in the newsroom tells Bob Woodward about the iPad and about the Post's new app. Woodward immediately abandons whatever he was ...

If you have Facebook pictures pretty enough to frame and set on the mantle, you can now print photos directly from the site using Kodak kiosks at Target. Just a few weeks after Facebook announced support for higher-resolution photos, Facebook and Kodak have teamed up with Target to cut out the printing middleman (i.e. flash drives) by installing these kiosks in stores. Target is saying that the ...

Over at Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian wonders aloud, "Did desktop publishing ruin design terminology?" We often use the term 'font' when we mean 'typeface,' a term that has almost completely fallen out of use outside of graphic design circles. Vartanian's helpful look back at FontFeed, though, clears up their distinction. "Font is what you use, and typeface is what you see," says Norbert ...

Hey Condé Nast! Did someone hear our plaintive cries about your app ventures? Because we're happy to report that 'The New Yorker' iPad app, released today, resoundingly does not suck. Well, it's got some issues (of which the editors seem to be aware), but we'll save those for last. We were worried when we heard that The New Yorker was coming to iPad, because it's a medium that is simply ...

As print journalism continues to die a slow death, consumers are flocking to the Internet to get their news. According to a recent study, though, people are still having a hard time trusting what they read online. A report from the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California finds that more than 75-percent of users rank the Internet as the most important source of ...

Sports fans can now keep track of their favorite teams with a new iPad application. According to The New York Times, Time Inc. recently launched its official Sports Illustrated iPad app, which includes all the content found in the print magazine plus extra digital content. A new issue is available each Wednesday for $4.99 (the same price as the Wired app), and takes about four minutes to download. ...

Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday a new line of printers that have their own e-mail addresses in an attempt to breathe new life into printing. Rather than connect a device to the printer, you can simply e-mail a document, photo or PDF to one of HP's new machines, and it will be waiting in the printer's tray when you get home. The company hopes these new printers, which will be released over the ...

Maybe you remember this guy named Steve Jobs who was all like, "I've got this new device and it's magical and revolutionary." The iPad will save the print industry, Jobs told us, because all of the world's gasping magazine publishers will hop on the third-device bandwagon, and save long-form journalism and glossy celebrity gossip. You'll be able to walk around with a year's worth of magazine ...

What began as an innocent bar-room hypothetical conversation soon became a reality -- and now, it's become the centerpiece of a brewing legal storm. Back in April, journalists Matthew Honan, Sarah Rich and Alexis Madrigal were drinking together at a San Francisco bar, when they suddenly found themselves wondering about whether it'd be possible to start a new magazine over the course of a ...

Readers, we should've been prepared for disappointment. After expectations for the iPad had run so high that there was veritable anger from the tech world when the limitations of the device were announced, we should've known that we ought to lower the bar for Condé Nast's digital editions. The iPad version of Vanity Fair just debuted, and we spent a little hands-on time with the app, trying ...

Who says print is dead? In an inspired move sure to make reading Simpsons trivia feel more scholarly, Wikipedia, along with publishing partner PediaPress, is letting users create custom books from Wikipedia's enormous wealth of articles. The service is now built directly into Wikipedia via the "create a book" link featured on the sidebar of all Wikipedia articles. After starting the book ...

As sad a reality as it is, much of the digitized world still relies on paper. But for many of us who've become accustomed to completely paperless, smartphone-based existences, remembering to print a pair of concert tickets or a big term paper before leaving the house can be a difficult and often cumbersome task. Luckily, though, a new app now allows procrastinating or forgetful users to save both ...

The BBC's Jude Sheerin recently penned an interesting article about the problem of spam filters when it comes to a language rife with double entendres. Sheerin tells the tale of one of Canada's oldest magazines that has recently been forced to change its name due to constant spam warnings. The moniker in question: The Beaver, that grand animal dear to Canada's heart. Most of the 30,000 viewers to ...

As the iPad inches ever closer to its official release, few people are more excited than magazine publishers, who, after years of watching their revenue evaporate under the blazing sun of the Internet, now hope to finally be able to charge users for enhanced digital content. But, as tricked-out as the e-reader magazines of the future may be, the simple significance of an enticing cover will ...

With books increasingly going digital, publishers are looking to diversify their business in order to stay viable. Random House is taking the lead by venturing into the video game market. According to Kotaku, the publishing giant has launched a division whose specific goal is to develop and write original stories for video games. The new division, dubbed IP Creation and Development Group, will ...