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The magazine scan-sharing site controversy goes mainstream

Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 by Rex Hammock

“The magazine industry is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy,” screams the lede of an AP story yesterday. If you read this blog, you can guess from earlier this month that the story is about Mygazines.com, a site … Continue reading →

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Mygazines.com’s creator responds to critics with incomprehensible buzz-speak

Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 by Rex Hammock

If you follow my link blog, you may have caught my comments about the “Anquilla-based” “magazine-sharing” website, Mygazines.com. For the record, technically, what is being shared are PDFs of magazines and magazine articles, not actual magazines. My comments have basically … Continue reading →

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Everywhere hits pause button

Posted on Monday, August 4, 2008 by Rex Hammock

I’m interupting my practice of not blogging about the launching and shuttering of magazines because news about 8020 Publishing “suspending” Everywhere Magazine is going to be interpreted in lots of different ways by those in the magazine industry — so … Continue reading →

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Esquire’s battery-powered gimmick cover should be unplugged

Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by Rex Hammock

One might think I’d be all gung-ho about Esquire experimenting with a digital cover using the eInk technology that powers eBook readers like the Kindle. Sorry to disappoint you: I think it is nothing more than a goofy gimmick. In … Continue reading →

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MagHound is like “EBSCO” for consumers

Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by Rex Hammock

I sense that last week’s story on FolioMag.com about Time Inc.’s planned MagHound magazine aggregation subscription service (not to be confused with the new print-on-demand-magazine service from HP called MagCloud) had to be one of Folio:’s most linked-to articles in … Continue reading →

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