Daily Archives: Thursday, October 23, 2003

Travel Weekend: I doubt I’ll be posting anything until Monday (unless Samir Husni is quoted somewhere), but if I run into some friendly wi-fi, I have a couple of items to post that folks have e-mailed me.

You’re so vain, you probably think this magazine is for you: Slate’s Daniel Gross has some thoughts on the “no-action auction” of New York Magazine. I’ve refrained from blogging this topic because of my “no transaction coverage” policy. The chorus … Continue reading →

Custom publishing update: Fashion Wire Daily is reporting that Bloomingdale’s is launching a magazine (not a catlog, they say). More on this later, I’m sure. (via iwantmedia.com)

Amazon launches full-text search: Amazon.com today launched its full-text search feature, “Search Inside the Book.” (Here is a rexblog flashback comment about this and another one). I don’t need to say anything more about this as Gary Wolf has done … Continue reading →

Does anybody really care? Yesterday, according to mediapost’s Ross Fadner, “Newsstand Inc. and Zinio Systems Wednesday unveiled new digital publishing initiatives that are likely to accelerate the migration of printed media to digital formats.” According to the article, “Newsstand, which … Continue reading →