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Isaac Fitzgerald
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iBooks Aren’t Moving Fast
“When it comes to buying apps in the iTunes App Store, books are the most widely available, but they’re also the apps least likely to be purchased, according to Apptizr, an iPhone application recommendation service. It found that 22 percent…
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Because It’s Friday…
We’re not ones to mention Stephen Colbert (there are plenty of sites that have reposting the man’s work covered), but Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel, author of one of our most popular articles, “Reality Boredom: Why David Shields is Completely Right…
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Rejected Chris Ware
Paul Constant at The Stranger says it best: “Everybody knows that Chris Ware is a genius, but his rejected cover for Fortune‘s 500th issue is some kind of satiric masterpiece.” Constant couldn’t be more right. Check it out:
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We ♥ Books
“This is what’s so frustrating when you talk to people in the mainstream publishing industry. They’re so sure no one loves books anymore–because the corporate accountants are telling them they can’t hit a 15% profit margin. And so they’re bending…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell Song: “Conversations About a Friend (Who’s in Love with Katie)”
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If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say… Say It on the Internet
In Taffy Broedesser-Akner’s New York Times piece “E-Playgrounds Can Get Vicious” she tells the story of writing an online article about Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which she experienced firsthand, only to receive “a slew of nasty comments.” An example? One…
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“Publishing exists in a continual state of forecasting its own demise…”
Ken Auletta, who has written the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker since 1992, has a new article that takes an in-depth look at the war between Amazon and Apple over the pricing of electronic books. Auletta doesn’t…
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An Electric Literature Single Sentence Animation
Artist Adam Thompson‘s interpretation of Rumpus columnist Rick Moody‘s short story, “Some Contemporary Characters.”
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Beautiful Science
“NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes.” Ok, we can’t sum up the science-y implications of SDO because, frankly, we…
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Hevisaurus!
This is a metal band for kids made up of dinosaurs. Yes, we are considering moving to Finland. (via dlisted)