Users idly browsing Google's Android Play app this morning saw a link to digital version of T3 magazine listed on the front page, with links inside its listing letting mag buyers view a decent list of other UK magazines. But you can't buy them yet. Read More >>
Featured comment by Alex:
"I wonder if TV episodes are about to make their way over too? I noticed an update on my N7 today asking me to update Google Play Movies to "Google Pla..." More »
Skeptical of a little e-book you've never heard of that has 28 five-star reviews on Amazon? You should be. Turns out in many cases, the authors are paying for reviews. Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"The only surprising thing about it is that people are still surprised...
http://jamescalbraith.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/reviewgate-or-who-ever-said-t..." More »
The tatty magazine rack in your local WHSmith is about to lose one of its longest-serving titles, with publisher DC Thompson chopping the print version of the Dandy in favour of an all-new entirely digital copy of the comic that'll appear online instead. Read More >>
Featured comment by magicguppy:
"I was in Dundee yesterday admiring the statue. I used to read Dandy and Beano, but not so much for DD or Dennis the Menace, more for The Bash Street K..." More »
The bizarre glitch that saw Microsoft break/suspend the publishing of new apps on its Marketplace has been fixed, with MS mending the digital certificate problem that was causing the WP app store to appear even more barren than usual. It'll take "a day or two" for the updated code to fully deploy and for new apps to appear again for those hit by the lockout. [Windows Team Blog] Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Not to take anything away from it (honestly) but it is a lot easier for professional devs to convert existing Apps then it is to create new ones. Thus..." More »
A new anthology of Latin authors, forthcoming from the Argentinean publishers Eterna Cadencia, is being printed in such a way that each book practically demands its readers full attention and investment. Read More >>
Featured comment by caniffis:
"Apple must be kicking themselves for not thinking of this first. they then could have tied you in to a book system so you couldn't lend the book to ot..." More »
The next issue of Gardners' World Magazine will give housebound vegetation fans the chance to get a real whiff of the outdoors, thanks to featuring an equally horrifying and interesting "Scratch & Sniff" front cover, plus a mystery smell inside. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"The month after that the Journal of Infectious Diseases will come with a "scratch and catch" cover and the Journal of Erectile Dysfunction will come ..." More »
Local newspapers from around the year 1800 onward have been digitised and stuck online by the British Newspaper Archive, taking us back to the days when front pages were heavier on the text than celebrity gusset photographs. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Of course in those days "Lady Gaga" was simply a member of the aristocracy who'd started suggesting women should have the vote and children shouldn't ..." More »
Magazine publishers tripped over themselves to get on the iPad, because they thought they could sell you pretty things like this to revive their depressed print business, but then Apple was kind of a dick about it, and even though Apple took it all back, magazine publishers are still totally leery about being completely beholden to Apple for tablet moneys—but all of the Android tablets suck so nobody is buying them, leaving the publishers with not a lot of places to go, but hey Amazon's tablet looks like it might be okay, so now three of the big publishers are on board with it—Conde Nast, Hearst and Meredith—but not Time, at least not yet (or Bonnier). Read More >>
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