Amazon price-matching app causes concern for bricks and mortar
Amazon has been running a promotion with a new smartphone-based price-checking tool that lets users scan the barcodes of items in stores and compare the prices to items Amazon sells to earn 5% store...
View ArticleApple, Google may be working on wearable smartphone-based computing
On the New York Times Bits Blog, Nick Bilton suggests that both Apple and Google are engaged in (separate) projects to turn smartphones into more wearable devices. Apple has already been wearable in...
View ArticleKindle app update brings PDF, periodicals to iOS devices
This past week, the Kindle iOS app received an update. We did mention it when it happened, but I think a couple of the features in that update are important enough to go into in detail. First of all,...
View ArticleNew York Times blasts ‘pirates’ while it ‘pirates’ an article itself
When it comes to copyright and piracy, it often seems that some of the most vehement objectors don’t practice what they preach. The Boston Phoenix’s Carly Carioli has posted an editorial to the...
View ArticleLibrarian Nancy Pearl causes controversy with Amazon republishing partnership
Amazon has been racking up a reputation as “the enemy” in publishing circles. That has led to a sort of “with us or against us” mentality in which any formerly respected person who is seen to work with...
View ArticleBill Keller defends New York Times’s reposted article copyright violation
Do as I say, don’t do as I do. In response to the Phoenix editorial about the New York Times committing a copyright violation by posting a PDF of a 36-year-old newspaper article even as Op-Ed columnist...
View ArticleNew York Times reports on tablets’ distracting siren-song making e-reading...
Are tablets too distracting to make a good e-reading experience? This is a question we’ve looked at before, but various news sources keep picking it up like it’s a new idea—most recently, the New York...
View ArticleWearable devices may pose challenge to in-flight device restrictions
We’ve written about device restrictions on airplanes before, but in the New York Times Nick Bilton presents an angle that hasn’t been as widely considered: what happens when people’s electronic devices...
View ArticleAn e-book lover yearns for paper books…but does not buy any
Nick Bilton has a piece in the New York Times in which he tells of how he wandered into an old bookshop in New York and stared (and smelled) nostalgically at the printed pages all around. As an avowed...
View ArticleOf reading, classics, and guilty pleasures
Here’s an amusing little blog post from the New York Times about reading and guilty pleasures. It seems to be saying that people feel guilty about reading modern (allegedly inferior) stuff they like...
View ArticleNew York Times comes to Flipboard; Wired and the New Yorker leave it
The New York Times today announced it is embarking on a program which will make its content available through various third-party services, starting with iOS (and, since last week, Android) social...
View ArticleAn E-book Series by New York Times Authors? If only!
From the Great Ideas Department of the Nieman Journalism Lab’s website today comes a semi-sarcastic yet truly brilliant advice-essay from Rex Sorgatz, who has just succeeded in handing the New York...
View ArticleElmore Leonard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Book Foundation has just announced the two recipients of its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards, and the winners certainly make for a curious (yet very deserving) pair: The Medal for...
View ArticleManaging Digital Durability: Thoughts from New York Times cultural critic Rob...
Editor’s note: Rob Walker is the sort of writer whose name you may not be familiar with, but whose work you’ve almost certainly encountered—at least once or twice, if not dozens of times. Walker is...
View ArticleThe NY Times creates the first-ever Kindle Paperwhite infographic
Did anyone else notice the fantastic Kindle Paperwhite infographic that ran in the New York Times‘ Business section on December 26? It appears to have been a dual effort on the part of tech reporter...
View ArticleIs the Vampire Weekend classified ad proof that print is approaching its...
I about wet myself after opening up the February 18 issue of New York magazine, after which I immediately flipped to the often imitated (but never duplicated) Approval Matrix. There it was, right down...
View ArticleNew York Times Now Available on Flipboard for Android and Kindle Fire
Flipboard made my list of great productivity apps in a previous post I wrote for GadgeTell (one of TeleRead’s sister sites), but until today I only used it on my iPad. Why? Because the New York Times...
View ArticleMexico’s illiteracy problem is growing worse
For years now, whenever reports from Mexico have popped up in American news outlets, the stories have almost always revolved around the seemingly endless homicides that are taking place in the northern...
View ArticleNew York Times: Flipboard or Native App?
Last week The New York Times gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse: 12 weeks of digital access for $5. No, that’s not $5 per week. That’s $5 for the entire 12-week period. See why I couldn’t refuse? I’d...
View ArticleThe New York Times Now Available as a Kindle Fire App
Love The New York Times and want to read it on your Kindle Fire? Until this week, you had to settle for the Kindle edition, which gave you the articles but none of the multi-media content. No longer....
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